Although I have had a Facebook page for ages, I rarely use the platform. Recently, however, I started using Facebook Marketplace which has proven to be a far better selling platform than Craig’s List, my previous standard. I have completed several transactions using local pick-up with no problems. Today, I agreed to ship an item for the first time. The buyer suggested I look into the Facebook shipping option. I was shocked by the cost savings, almost half of what UPS or the USPS would charge. Is there a catch? Yes. Amazon charges 10% of the sale price for leveraging their bulk shipping rates. Even so, I decided to enroll and provide all my banking details. To convert my listing for local pick-up to include a shipping option, I had to edit it. Because I had already marked the listing as “pending sale,” I had to first revert it back to “item still available” in order to access the edit listing option. Once this was all done, I assumed that I would do what I have done for all other completed sales and mark the item as sold and indicate the buyer. Doing so, however, locked out my actual buyer who justifiably contacted me in a bit of a panic. I then went back and changed the listing status back to “item still available” and she was able to make the purchase. When I returned to FBMP looking for how to print the shipping label, I get a message that my account has been suspended for suspicious activity and that will take up to 7 days to reinstate it. My guess is that Amazon has a bot the triggers suspension if it appears that a seller has sold the same item locally and to a ship-to buyer. Hopefully, this all gets sorted quickly. In the mean time, I have no access to my other items for sale and cannot communicate with FB Messenger.