13 Curious Finds from the Magical World of Oxford’s Facebook Marketplace
The potential for bargains here is unmissable. Trust me.
Magnificent Oxford, known as the ‘City of Dreaming Spires’, an ancestral home of education, a beautiful English city.
It should also be known as the home of the oddest Facebook Marketplace, countrywide.
I love Facebook Marketplace. It’s the ideal place to get some seriously good deals on furniture, tech and accessories - I personally used it to furnish my entire house from scratch in a matter or weeks - but, as I’ve found, you have to be quite selective with your searches, or your feed gets a little…weird.
It may be a hobby only I have, but I trawl through my FB marketplace feed weekly on an oddities hunt, just for kicks.
But you know, the world is stressful, university is hard, life is expensive and the news is depressing, so why not share an arguably entertaining hobby instead? I have rounded up the 13 best(?) second hand purchases available to you on the Oxford side of FB’s insane second-hand site this week, just so you too, can share in the joy/insanity.
Let’s dive in, shall we?
Let’s start this wonderful garden ornament, perfect for adding a little finesse and class to your uni accommodation:
This unique opportunity to own an authentic piece of British-American history, for the low, low price of £40:
This elegantly dressed sensei, who could be used for a myriad of day to day activities:
These… lovely clothes, presented in an aesthetic way for your window shopping:
It’s Mr! The ultimate haunted companion for your room, kitchen or basement:
This Zebra print television, which, if I’m being candid with myself, I am really tempted by:
This mountain of staple food which is only slightly out of date, if rice can even be out of date?*
*no, Google says ‘not really’.
This costume (‘that could do with a wash’- the seller) that will 100% have you upstaging the bride at every wedding in a five mile radius:
This second costume option for a classier look at your next family function:
This… gentleman, who has apparently seen both world wars from the front line:
Now that’s what I call a thousand-yard stare.
This ultimate free design elevation to the university student garden, or kitchen, or bathroom (grime and lack of function included):
This ‘Coco de Mer’ SEED, which is apparently valuable and certainly a talking point for your home (if you were looking for some odd conversations):
(EDITORIAL NOTE: Someone walked behind me whilst I was putting this image in the article and took such a hard double take I think they have given themselves whiplash. Formal apologies to them.)
And last, but certainly not least, this £30 Inside Out Telly Tubby:
‘It’s a Teletubby that’s inside out’
Yeah, at this point I closed Facebook.
Well, there you have it. Have you been convinced to go traipsing around Oxford to collect some of these magnificent items? Or have you been scared off of the infernal shambles that is Oxford’s Facebook Marketplace?
Yeah, I think the latter applies to me for a little while.
You’re so welcome.
Each of these surprised me more than the last