Sell safer on Facebook Marketplace

Where to list, how to price and photograph for a quick sale, and three ways to hand items off, ranked by how much contact they involve.

Local apps, consignment, specialty sites, and donation, compared by cost, effort, and how much buyer contact each one involves.

Fourteen steps from your first listing to a sold item, including the safety habits most how-to guides skip.

The risk isn't the app. It's the handoff, your address, and the payment. Where things go wrong, and the control for each one.

The unwritten rules, written down, with copy-paste replies for the messages every seller gets.

Pricing, photos, and pickup plans for selling furniture quickly, without turning your living room into a meetup spot.

Fake Zelle business-account emails, overpayment, verification codes, and screenshot payments. How each works, and the three rules that stop most of them.

25 things that sell well locally, each rated for whether it can go on your porch, needs you home, or shouldn't be a porch sale at all.

Venmo, Cash App, or cash? How each option works for sellers, which ones I skip, and five rules that keep payment simple.

Practical tips for listing, messaging, pickup, and payment, for people selling what they already own.

Where improvised porch pickups go wrong, why "meet in a parking lot" isn't automatically safer, and what a safe porch pickup looks like.

Muse can message buyers from your account. One seller says it gave out his home address. What happened, and the settings and instructions to use it safely.