Hi all,

I’m putting together a blog post at the moment about Facebook commerce. Recently a lot of brands have been closing their Facebook stores, however I believe F-Commerce still has potential.

I wanted to know;

• If you would ever sell through Facebook and why you would or wouldn’t.
  
• If you would ever buy through Facebook and why you would or wouldn’t.
  

Thanks guys

I have never thought of setting up a FB store but now that you raised the questions, this is what comes to my mind:

Facebook’s privacy and data protection issues (hot topic in Europe right now) are not helpful for trustworthy e-commerce activities

An official company website needs to fulfill certain legal requirements, it belongs to the company I am buying from and is not hooked on third party (e.g. FB) rules and regulations – I would therefore feel more comfortable buying from a company website

Facebook (G+ etc) users don’t like offensive selling on the social media site. If you are selling too hard, you scare your fans away. If you don’t promote your FB e-commerce enough, it will not deliver the desired results. It’s a very thin line…

I’m curious to see how others will respond to this topic…