How do you create an FB Marketplace profile that is detached from your regular profile?

What's the best way to create a Facebook Marketplace profile that is detached from your regular profile?

I often see "Marketplace Profile" when I look at ads. Are these just for businesses?

I created a second profile, but apparently, only your primary account can access Marketplace.

I've watched the videos, but can't really seem to sort through it all. If you don't have a business and just want to sell some stuff without giving everyone in the world access to your main account, how do you go about it? Is there an easy way to do this?

I'm just a guy who wants to sell some crap on Facebook. Please explain this as if you were teaching an infant.

As someone who buys stuff on Facebook, I would never buy from the type of profile you are describing. It just screams "scammer". I *always* check the personal profile to see if the person is real. When you see a guy claiming to be born-and-raised in NC but has three friends and follows a Chinese University or Cameroon fur trader (both real examples), you know to walk away. If the profile is totally empty or locked down, I will walk 90% of the time. If I am really desperate, I'll reach out but with a very high guard. 

 First thing I do when I see something I'm interested in on MP is to check the profile. Blank, no friends, no posts, likely a scam

Woody, who you punkin'?

I do the same thing... which is exactly why I would like to create a separate profile just for selling stuff. 

If I'm trying to sell a bunch of old Jeep parts, I don't think that shoppers really need to know where I work or who was at my niece's wedding  

In the past, when I've listed stuff on my regular profile, I've gotten so many responses that I can afford to filter out a few who don't want to take a chance on me. I'm okay with that. 

Why not just change your current privacy settings to friends only? 

Yeah, sounds like what you really want to learn is how to not make all of your information and posts fully public.

The problem with having a "fake" profile and "filtering out a few people" is that those people who you filter out are likely the ones you actually want to be doing business with.

Everybody has an opinion on the matter, but I will say, I have a separate Facebook profile for Marketplace exactly like you're asking about. Fake name. My profile says "I don't do social media, I'm just here to use Marketplace"  The profile has no friends and no posts on the wall. I do list an accurate city and state though. I have no shortage whatsoever of success with buying and selling using that profile. Apparently there's plenty of folks out there who aren't scared off by it. 

I know that I've clicked on ads that took me to a seller's page that has the header "Marketplace Profile", and none of the typical Facebook feed stuff. This is what I'm inquiring about. Are these business profiles?

In reply to Woody (Forum Supportum) :

I tried to do this at work, they had some file cabinets and other stuff they wanted to sell.  Didn't want to use my own account, the person doing the work wasn't on Facebook.

So first I made a generic account for him, but trying to make a biz account was ridiculous.  They wanted photos of drivers licenses & all kinds of personal crap that we gave up.  If I had used his new account, it might have been different I guess.

I feel a lot of the younger generation is doing this, especially if the reports are true that they don't use Facebook much, but I've encountered several local buyers of camera equipment and their profiles were fairly bare, just enough info to be real and for just marketplace use. 

Everyone technically has a marketplace profile.  If you are a business and pay for the service, you get different anonymity perks.  Ever noitice how you can click "view profile" of the seller and it takes you to a sorta-profile page.  You have to click something like "view profile on facebook" to see their actual profile.

Privacy settings are your friend.  There is a button you can click to change all of your previous posts to friends-only, then you can set all kinds of parameters so that basically the only thing a non-friend can see is your cover photo.

I would set up a second email account and make a new/dummy profile.

I'm not on Facebook and haven't been for several years- marketplace is the only thing I miss.