Facebook Marketplace listing description: template and example

What should I write in a Facebook Marketplace description?

Write the lines a buyer checks before messaging, in this order: what it is, the size, the condition, what comes with it, the price and how pickup works. Each line heads off a message: will it fit, do the chairs come with it, will you take $90. Use the words people search with, like “dining table” and “48 x 30”, and skip why you're selling unless it helps.

Write the title the way a buyer searches. “Dining table 48 x 30, seats 4” has the words they type; “Beautiful table, must go” has none. Set the category (Furniture) and the condition field to match. Name a brand or material only when a label or receipt shows it: wood-look is the honest word for laminate or veneer you can't identify, and “solid oak” gets checked in your driveway.

What does a good Facebook Marketplace listing look like?

Title: Dining table, dark wood-look, 48 x 30 in, seats 4 Price: $120 Dark wood-look dining table, 48 x 30 in, seats four. 30 in high. Ring mark on top, scuff on the front edge (see photos). No wobble on a level floor. Table only. $120, cash or Venmo/Zelle at pickup. Pickup near [your neighborhood]; bring a helper. Weekday evenings after 6 or Saturday morning. Ground floor, no stairs. The legs don't come off, so it needs an SUV or truck.

Measure width x depth x height in inches, then add the number that matters: seats for a table, drawers for a dresser. If chairs come with it, price both ways: “Table and four chairs, $180; table only, $120.”

Can I copy a Facebook Marketplace listing template?

Title: [Item], [size or brand], [one standout detail] Price: $[amount] [Color or finish] [item], [width x depth x height] in. [What it seats, holds or fits.] [Each flaw and where it is] (see photos). [What you checked: no wobble, drawers slide, all burners light.] [What's included]; [what's not]. $[amount], [cash, Venmo or Zelle] at pickup. [Firm or OBO.] Pickup near [neighborhood or cross streets]; [days and times]. [Stairs or ground floor.] [Comes apart or not; vehicle or helper needed.]

For a bundle, like a crib with its mattress, count every piece before the photos and say whether the price is for the lot. If you later sell one piece on its own, change the title, description and photos together.

How do I describe condition so buyers don't back out at pickup?

Name each flaw, where it is and roughly how big, and point to the photo: “ring mark on top, about 3 in across (photo 4)”. A buyer who saw the worst before driving over has little left to haggle about at the curb. “Some wear” leaves people picturing something worse than a ring mark.

Add what you checked, like “drawers slide smoothly” or “all four burners light”, and “smoke-free home” if it's true. Photograph each flaw close up beside a wider shot that shows where it is, by a window in daylight.

How do I handle pickup and payment safely?

Agree on a time in Messenger and send the address that day. Meet in daylight with someone else home, and bring big pieces out to the garage or porch. Take cash, or watch a Venmo or Zelle payment land in your own app before anything goes in their car. Small items can change hands in a busy store parking lot.

Ignore any email or text saying a payment is waiting until you upgrade an account or pay a fee; check your bank or Venmo app and nowhere else. To hold an item for someone, give a time: “I can hold it until 7 tonight.”

Frequently asked questions

Sources

• Meta: Introducing Marketplace · Checked 2026-10-15

  Meta's 2016 launch announcement for Marketplace.