Why is facebook into this?

There is a lot much happening in the ecommerce websites and seems like facebook is in a plan of coming into that field and this is a just a prototype for the same to test how it works. Facebook’s Director of product management Mary Ku said in the press release “marketplace is something which was ignited after closely looking at more than 450 million people transacting in the groups and communities. So we decided to create a platform for them to make things easy”. Though there isn’t any news on facebook charging on any transaction amount, one just can’t trade of the possibilities of the same. Marketplace in India might be available latest by this December and there isn’t any info on its availability on website. So people planning to buy and sell, happy marketplacing !!