From the archive. First published in March 2016. Rewritten for clarity, with a note on what happened afterwards.
In 2016 Facebook blocked links to this site. Anyone trying to share the address was shown a warning suggesting it was unsafe. It was inconvenient and, in our view at the time, unfair.
With some distance, the honest account is more interesting than the complaint.
Why a platform blocks a domain like this
Facebook’s terms restrict transferring a page without permission. A site whose entire function is facilitating those transfers is, from the platform’s perspective, dedicated to circumventing its rules. The block was not a judgment that the site was malware. It was a judgment about the category.
That is worth stating plainly on our own site, because the alternative is pretending there is no tension between what this market does and what the platforms allow. There is, and anyone trading pages should understand it rather than be reassured about it.
What it means for people using any marketplace
- Do not advertise a page sale in public. Pages that have been listed openly are at materially higher risk, which is why we decline them.
- Do not share marketplace links on the platform itself. It achieves nothing and draws attention to the account doing it.
- Understand what you are accepting. This is a contract violation rather than a crime, but the consequences are real: removal or ban, with no appeal that recognises a sale took place.
Our position
We are not going to tell you the risk is zero, because it is not. Transfers mostly happen without the written permission the terms require. What a screened, private venue reduces is the other set of risks: fraud between the parties, stolen pages, inflated audiences, and the mass enforcement that follows public listing. It cannot remove the platform risk, and any venue claiming otherwise is misleading you.
The detail on what the terms actually say is in our marketplace comparison.
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