The short version

Facebook Marketplace is the default for a reason: it's free, local, and has more Australians on it than any other selling venue. If you want same-day cash for a cot from someone three suburbs over, it does that job well.

What it doesn't do is protect anyone. There's no checkout in Australia, so every sale is cash or a bank transfer between strangers, with no recourse when it goes wrong. The ACCC's anti-scam centre reported buying and selling scams on online marketplaces as the most reported scam type involving financial loss in 2025. And every parent who's sold there knows the other tax: the no-shows, the "is this still available?" silence, the lowball offers at the door.

Side by side

Where Facebook Marketplace wins

• Reach. Nothing else comes close for sheer audience.
• Bulky local items. A cot or a change table that's painful to post moves fastest with same-day pickup and cash.
• Zero cost, both sides. If a sale completes cleanly, nobody paid anyone a cent in fees.

Where Lhoop wins

• Your money is protected. The buyer's payment sits in escrow with Stripe until they confirm the item arrived as described. No fake payment screenshots, no PayID games.
• Your evening is protected. No meetups to arrange, no no-shows to absorb. Sold means sold; post it and you're done.
• It speaks kids' sizes. Structured age-based sizing and honest condition grades instead of free-text guesswork.
• Bundles beat shipping costs. A buyer takes five pieces from your closet in one parcel with one postage cost.

The bottom line

Keep Facebook Marketplace for the bulky furniture a courier would hate. For the clothes, the toys and the good stuff worth real money, a marketplace that holds the payment and understands a size 0 is worth the buyer's small fee, and it costs you as the seller exactly nothing. When you're ready, you can sell baby gear in Australia on Lhoop in a minute.