How Long Do Facebook Marketplace Listings Last?

Do Facebook Marketplace listings expire?

No. Meta's Help Center says you can keep a listing on Facebook Marketplace as long as you are still selling the item. A listing left inactive for two years or more is deleted, and renewing or editing it resets that period.

Some blogs and answer tools repeat a 7-day expiry. We found no Meta page that says so in November 2026.

Why do listings seem to vanish sooner?

Because the item is often gone, or you no longer see it. A listing you wanted can disappear for four reasons:

• The seller sold it and marked it sold.
• The seller deleted it, or relisted it as a new one.
• Your search changed: a different radius, sort or filter shows a different set.
• Facebook ordered your results another way. Facebook publishes no rules for how it orders results, so we cannot say when a listing sinks.

None of these is an expiry. All of them look the same to a buyer: the listing is not there.

How long does a listing stay up before it leaves?

It depends on the item and the city. Crawlbench market pages show Usually gone in: the middle time a listing stays up before it leaves Marketplace. The page shows it only where enough listings have left to trust the number.

Here is one model, the 2015 Honda Civic, from its market page (updated 28 Oct 2026):

Miami, Bridgeport and Los Angeles have a usual price for this model but too few listings to show a time.

Read the table with three cautions:

• A middle, not a deadline. Half of these listings leave sooner than 7 days and half stay longer.
• Gone is not always sold. A listing leaves when it sells, but also when a seller removes it.
• One model. This is a 2015 Honda Civic in five cities. A couch, a phone or a tractor has its own time.

What does that mean for buyers?

Treat a fairly priced listing in a busy city as one that will not wait. For this Civic, a listing that has been up 7 days has already outlasted the middle one.

• Message the seller first when the price is at or under the usual price.
• Do not assume it is still there. Ask before you drive.
• Judge the price before the clock. Compare the ask with the usual asking price for that model. Our post on what day supply means for buyers shows how to read supply and pace together.

What does it mean for sellers?

If your listing has been up longer than similar ones, the price is the first lever. Compare your ask with the usual price and the range where most similar listings sit. How to price a car on Facebook Marketplace walks through it. Editing a listing resets Meta's two-year inactivity timer, but Facebook publishes no rule that says it raises your listing in search.

How can you see the time for your own item?

Open the market page for your model and look for Usually gone in by city. Markets shows more cities and how the number moves week by week. If a city has too few listings, the page says so instead of guessing.

Crawlbench checks Facebook Marketplace for your searches and alerts you when a listing fits, with its price check beside it. You message the seller yourself. Busy cities are checked every minute on Scale, every 2 minutes on Pro, every 5 on Growth and every 10 on Starter. Each plan's speed is on pricing. To get alerted when a price drops, see Facebook Marketplace price drop alerts.

Where do these numbers come from?

Usually gone in is a middle time from Crawlbench's own checks on listings in each city, shown only above our floors (enough listings that have left, and enough checks that ran on time). Prices are asking prices, not sold prices: see asking price vs sold comps. Meta's rule is from its Help Center, November 2026.

Crawlbench is not affiliated with Meta.