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9 of the weirdest, coolest items we could find for sale on the Columbia Facebook Marketplace

By Damian Bertrand

July 11, 2026 6:00 AM

Facebook Marketplace offers some of the strangest items that are hard to find anywhere else. Kativ Getty Images

Have you ever wanted to show off a pair of lobster sandals or maybe display a cow-shaped footstool in the center of your living room? If you’re interested in such items, Facebook Marketplace may be the place for you.

Facebook Marketplace is used as an online platform for people who want to sell cars, furniture, old clothes and other miscellaneous items, but there is also a market for stranger, more unusual objects you’re unlikely to find anywhere else.

It’s one of the most popular commerce platforms in the world, with over 1 billion people using Facebook Marketplace each month, and there are around 250 million active sellers across the globe, according to SQ Magazine.

Out of those millions of sellers, some sell the weird items they’ll have trouble selling anywhere else.

The marketplace updates every second with each new listing, but currently, these are nine of the weirdest and coolest listings we could find on Facebook Marketplace in the Columbia area: