Facebook Marketplace is great for scoring used furniture, vintage collectibles and even practical finds like cars or party supplies. It’s also a place that occasionally makes you wonder whether the internet was a mistake.<\/p>\n
While searching for a few essentials I’ve been eyeing (vintage handbags, coffee tables and quirky lamps), I stumbled across some of the strangest listings for sale around Austin. Enjoy.<\/p>\n
1. Shrek Crocs, ‘never worn’<\/p>\n
If you’ve ever thought, “What if my shoes looked like Shrek and Mr. Potato Head had a very green baby?” \u2014 and you wear a men’s size 12 \u2014 today might be your lucky day.<\/p>\n
2. Pregnant Barbie<\/p>\n
Technically, it’s Midge. But I’m not the Barbie police.<\/p>\n
I tried to find this exact doll online to compare prices and came up empty, so maybe this is your chance to own an ultra-rare Midge right here in Austin?<\/p>\n
3. A Snoopy rotary phone and lamp<\/p>\n
Actually, forget I mentioned this one. I want to buy it.<\/p>\n
4. ‘Hot pink banana friend’<\/p>\n
\u201cLike a big balloon wrapped in velvet,\u201d his (soon-to-be) former owners wrote.<\/p>\n
5. A totally normal not-magical brass lamp<\/p>\n
Rub it if you want, but don’t expect a giant blue genie voiced by Robin Williams to appear.<\/p>\n
6. A collection of 150 Eiffel Towers<\/p>\n
Planning to open a very specific museum?<\/p>\n
The seller says there are no individual sales, so it’s all or nothing.<\/p>\n
7. Seven porcelain clowns<\/p>\n
These are definitely haunted, right?<\/p>\n
8. A hand-painted, massive aluminum unicorn<\/p>\n
Proof that adulthood means you can spend your money however you want.<\/p>\n
9. A tall bike<\/p>\n
When I clicked the listing, I wondered, “What exactly is a tall bike?”<\/p>\n
Turns out, it’s exactly what it sounds like.<\/p>\n
10. A ‘cute’ figurine<\/p>\n
This thing absolutely comes to life the second you leave the room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Facebook Marketplace is great for scoring used furniture, vintage collectibles and even practical finds like cars or party…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-380345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}