Is it possible to buy a perfectly working, unblemished, and practically unused Xbox Series S at half price? Not without a good dollop of luck and plenty of time to scour the dregs of the internet. If you want to find a good deal you’re going to have to get a little dirty, and one of the muckiest places online is that gloriously messy procession of rejected secondhand goodies known as Facebook Marketplace.
going for £125 on Facebook, the discount detection center of my brain was sent into overdrive. How could I say no?Actually, there were a lot of reasons to be skeptical. While eBay and the more regulated secondhand marketplaces of the internet have largely routed scammers from their platforms, the same isn’t true for all of them. Facebook Marketplace, like Gumtree and others of its ilk, are wilder by comparison.
I can’t count the number of times I’ve asked if an item was still available, only to be told the seller would happily post it to my address upon receipt of payment. They couldn’t meet in person, of course, because their mother was sick, or they had briefly moved out of the country, or their ravenous dog would tear any approaching strangers to shreds.
I fully expected to face the same brick wall this time around, but a quick back-and-forth with the seller showed they were serious. No nefarious swindling with this Xbox – only a tantalizing discount. Despite the overly protective warning from a friend that “they still might stab you” when I arrived to pick up the console – a risk that, really, applies to anyone, in any circumstance, at any time – I was set.But buying second-hand hardware isn’t as simple as it once was.
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