what's up everyone JB here with a video
on how to fix the disappearing or the
not appearing Facebook marketplace icon
it's a very very common question it's
very very confusing with the different
answers that you get that you google so
I'll address the different types of
reasons and why these occur and how we
can try and get around them and and
hopefully it clarifies a few things now
with it it's no guarantee but these are
the methods that I have seen work so
first up if you have a new Facebook
account where it is say a year after all
you know a year or two old or even a
Facebook account that you've created
that spare where you have never actually
really used it that much and you're
wanting to go into the marketplace this
will be a very very common issue where
you'll see that there will be no actual
icon with the Facebook marketplace what
I mean by that is I'll just show you one
my phone here the actual icon it should
be just there so that's the icon we're
talking about it's the Facebook
marketplace icon a lot of people have
throwaway accounts and they want to
actually um you know use those throwaway
accounts for selling on the marketplace
now if you think about it Facebook is
once again a very big company as you've
probably heard many times and and they
are want probably more legitimate
accounts that actually get used to start
selling stuff it'll minimize the bad
eggs of the bunch where people will
actually you know try to prod others and
stuff like that not saying that you are
but they need to minimize the risk on a
big scale so a new account or an account
that you highly use it's most likely one
of you throwaway accounts will
definitely not have that now you can try
a few things but there's a very good
chance that you'll have to actually use
your account and interact with your
account as a normal Facebook user to get
access to the marketplace now a way to
do that I found is
actually going on Facebook groups so if
you search groups for example by cell
swap markets and whatever you're
interested in could be even in the
certain model car you join those groups
join groups in your local area and when
those groups are actually um interacted
with eventually Facebook will see that
you know you are a general user and
maybe it will give an actual access to
the marketplace now this this access is
given obviously automatically it's not
by human it seems like it's just sort of
braiding a profile on the goodness scale
so that's the first one and that's
probably the hardest one to get around
now the second one is for example you've
got your actual Facebook account that
you've been using for years and years
and all of a sudden everybody else
around you has access to the marketplace
except you
so you wonder why you know you've
probably googled it you get all these
different answers the most common thing
that I've seen with the actual Facebook
marketplace access profile is two things
you need to make sure that your language
is set to English on your actual iPhone
and Facebook app you need to also make
sure that your location is set to a
location on Facebook where it is the
actual country that you're living in and
also it's a country that has access to
the marketplace a lot of countries do
now but not all country so be aware of
that you'll see that if you actually
google it I'll put a link below with a
list on what countries to date Facebook
has a has an actual access to in the
marketplace but if for example say
you're in Australia or in the United
States and you've been traveling
overseas and you're your actual your
location is set to say some random
country in Europe Facebook will think
that you belong to that country
therefore it's not going to give you
access to a US market so don't forget
that that's so important
the other thing is if you've got an
actual account and it's kind of like ah
you know I've got the actual location
settings and everything sorted but it's
still not not showing you could simply
need to just echo actually update your
Facebook app now I'm gonna show you how
to do it through an actual iPhone
Android the same it just called the Play
Store so you need to go to the App Store
if you go to your main home screen on
your iPhone you'll see that the app
stores there you go in there with the
actual Google phones it's called a
Google Play Store and you just need to
update Facebook and not only Facebook
you need to update messenger this has
worked for me as once I had to go to an
old phone when my phone broke and it
actually worked it just needed an update
so you know updating it helped also
update your phone to the latest version
the reason that will help is is that
sometimes if your phones are updated to
the latest version it can't update to
the latest app ok so you'll see that
that could be an issue with iPhones not
so much I'm not too sure about androids
how they work but it won't hurt to do
that so remember update your phone
update your apps that's a very very
important thing now another there's
another actual issue that people have is
some people had access to the
marketplace and all of a sudden their
marketplace button disappeared now once
again you really need to look at this on
a case-by-case basis the important thing
to look at is did you have access on
Marketplace on say a desktop iPhone and
you change devices or changed phones or
did you never notice the actual
marketplace on there believe or not you
might have not me you know notice that
when it actually disappeared because it
could have disappeared after you've
probably put something that has violated
the rules so if they've removed
your access to it you in really will get
a message saying that you've violated
certain rules of the marketplace
you've been permanently banned and when
you try to access it you the button will
still be there but the actual have
should I say the actual access will let
you know you've been blocked this is
what I've seen with the friend of Mines
it actually lets you know that the
Facebook marketplace is blocked so if
it's disappeared once again you'd want
to take a step back and look at possibly
your devices have you changed your
device doesn't need updating and and I
think that's the main thing I you know
those three issues are probably the
biggest ones that that you will see on
why you don't have access to the
marketplace there's no trick you can
look on YouTube and stuff like that
people think you know you you have to
change your time zone stuff like that no
that that means nothing
Facebook is a multi-billion dollar
company and they've got checks in place
to make sure you know people that should
have access to the marketplace have
access and people that don't they
probably generally don't have an access
for a reason and that could be from from
device settings like not updating your
app so I look at those two things now if
you've got any particular issues what I
do is I would actually drop a comment
below and I'll try and reply because
I've actually used this marketplace one
day one I'm I'm pretty familiar with it
so I'll give you my opinion on things it
might not be the right thing but I'll
guide you into the direction where you
know you might be able to to narrow
things down so once again I'm going to
put more videos on the Facebook
marketplace this is my new channel my
old channel info Hut which is still
going but this channel will be all about
flipping online making money online
because it's a great time to actually do
a lot of side projects or even marketing
on the side or you can make a bit of
money so fingers crossed we all grow
together
thanks a lot guys bye