BGG shutting down Marketplace

Craigslist's approach, sounds like.

Is there still dispute moderation?

I'm pretty sure there isn't. All sales are handled out of band/via Geekmail. I never felt great about the requests to pay via PayPal Friends and Family but I'm going to feel even less so about it now.

PayPal F&F requests will be more common, I predict they will be the norm once people pay their 2022 taxes and are hit unexpectedly with the new tax laws.

The problem is that for anyone who makes at least $600 in sales through PayPal, you will have to pay taxes on that income. Unless you're saving all of your receipts, you will have to pay it on the entirety of the sale and not simply the profit. Friends & Family gets around this.

$600 is a decent amount, but not when people are re-selling Kickstarter pledges or Warhammer armies every month.

I think I'm going to pull my items from Marketplace. This new setup is completely unsatisfactory for me as a seller.

People now, instead of ordering, "inquire" about orders. By the time I reply, they're not interested, presumably because they're also asking a bunch of people at the same time instead of placing an actual order. I have been a little slower than normal, but I'm also undermotivated because people are just fishing, not placing orders.

I totally get that. It's been working reasonably well for me but I've also encountered more chancers trying to get me to lower my prices. I've actually found it to be slightly more active than the old system but in general it's a bit more work to complete the sale.

I stopped using the Marketplace a few years back when I found that I got (and continue to get) good results using UK Game Selling groups on FB and eBay (when they have a low fees special running), just sold around 10 in the last three months, plus I get the odd exchange, and sometimes sale, in the BGG Math Trades.