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facebook marketplace montreal

Facebook Marketplace has become a go-to spot for furnishing apartments, unloading clutter, or hunting down a bargain. But scroll long enough and you'll quickly realize it's also the Wild West of online shopping.

Alongside the usual IKEA dressers and secondhand couches, you'll stumble across things that make you do a double-take. Deep in the depths of the social network's shopping section are items that feel like they belong in a thrift store basement, a fever dream, or maybe both.

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Montrealers nostalgic for the good ol' days of fast food play pits can now get their hands on one whopper of a childhood relic. A ginormous Burger King jungle gym is up for sale on Facebook and it's surprisingly affordable.

For $5,000 a buyer can walk away with the whole "commercial game room" of an old BK joint. And the haul is pretty sizeable.

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Facebook Marketplace is a great place to acquire used IKEA furniture and find outlandish items that make you question the taste of fellow Montrealers.

The following listings not only raise questions about why people own these things in the first place but also who they think will buy them.

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Montreal is a creative city, not just when it comes to the arts, but also Facebook Marketplace listings. The following items not only beg the question, "who would want that?" but also "who would pay that?"

These vendors have some very odd things to sell and they're not afraid to charge for them:

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Facebook Marketplace in Montreal is a wondrous digital bazaar for the truly bizarre (and, of course, a lot of dinged Ikea furniture). People are looking for the right buyer to sell just about anything, from empty boxes and incomplete toys to sad 'hobo' clowns and unboxed animal feed.

There's nothing more Marketplace than the rampant exchange of 'is this still available?' messages that never seem to lead to a sale. But, hey, maybe one of these oddities is just what you need:

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