FrostBoard is Alaska's ID-verified marketplace to buy, sell, and trade, plus events, garage sales, Q&A, and tutors.
Know who you're dealing with. On the usual buy-and-sell sites, anyone can be anyone. FrostBoard is a new way to buy and sell online: every account that can list, post, or send you a message has a government ID check behind it.
Using FrostBoard is always free, no subscription required. ID verification, needed to list, post, or message, is a one-time $5, free through December 31, 2026.
FrostBoard is a marketplace designed to be Alaska's online infrastructure.
Infrastructure is what a place runs on. FrostBoard is Alaska's online marketplace and community, built to do that job: one place, under one free account, for the everyday business of living here.
FrostBoard does that through five pillars: Marketplace, Events, The Lodge, RummageBoard, and Academy.
Browse all five pillars now. Verify your ID once to post in any of them:
You can look around FrostBoard without an account, but a lot stays hidden until you join.
Without an account
Browse the Marketplace, Events, The Lodge, the RummageBoard map, and the Academy directory.
See one photo per listing, with no video.
The seller shows only as "Seller."
Contact details, street addresses, VINs, and serial numbers stay hidden.
RummageBoard shows the general area of each sale, not the address.
Use 3 free AI searches a day, plus regular search results any time.
Free account, with your email and mobile number confirmed
See every photo and the video on every listing.
See the seller's first name and last initial.
Save listings, and set up to 3 saved searches with alerts.
Follow members and start listing drafts.
See the exact address of every RummageBoard sale.
Use 15 AI searches a day.
ID verified
See the seller's full name and contact details, plus VINs and serial numbers.
Message members.
List items (up to 10 at a time on the free plan), post events, post and comment in The Lodge, post a garage sale on RummageBoard, and get listed in Academy.
Review the other person after a Marketplace deal, and get reviewed.
Get a verified badge next to your name.
Get a free Boost that gives your next listing extra visibility for 24 hours.
Alaskans do life together. FrostBoard gives that a home online.
Alaskans buy and sell from each other, trade advice, show up for each other's events, and teach each other's kids. Online, all of that is scattered across group chats and buy-and-sell sites.
FrostBoard is for the Alaskans in the middle of it: families clearing out the garage, people hunting for a part, event hosts, small businesses, tutors, and coaches.
Why would anyone switch?
It's not a better way. It's a completely different way.
Every account that can list, post, or send a message is tied to a verified government ID, and the whole community lives in one place under one free account: what's for sale, what's happening, what people know, and who can teach it.
FrostBoard gets better the more people use it. More members mean more listings, and more buyers for yours. When businesses come on, there's more to buy close to home. When tutors and coaches list what they teach, families get more choices. A good answer in The Lodge keeps helping the next person who asks.
FrostBoard is early, and the people joining now set the standard for everyone who comes after them.
Live listings, each with an ID check behind the seller's account.
Marketplace
Buy, sell, and trade across Alaska, with an ID check behind every listing.
The Marketplace is built for the way life works up here: four-wheelers and snowmachines, boats and campers, baby gear and cabin tools, and the bush plane parts you can't find anywhere else. Rifles and shotguns have their own category under the published Firearms Policy. If it's legal in Alaska and fits the Community Guidelines, it can be listed here.
List it on the free plan. Each listing holds 10 photos and a 30-second video.
Listings stay current. A listing runs 60 days, and the seller can renew it instead of reposting.
Find Alaska events from Anchorage to Fairbanks on one statewide calendar.
The calendar covers concerts, festivals, classes, fundraisers, and city meetings, sorted by town. Right now it lists 25 upcoming events in 8 Alaska towns.
Browse by town. You don't need an account to look.
Add your own. Once you're verified, putting your event on the statewide calendar costs nothing.
Ask Alaskans who've done it, and the answer stays findable.
The best answers about living in Alaska get typed into feeds that bury them by morning. The Lodge is FrostBoard's social community, where what members share stays searchable, so an answer about a military PCS move, a road trip, or a moose hunt keeps helping people long after it's posted.
Read without an account. Anyone can search The Lodge.
Answers come from verified members. Posting and replying take a verified account.
Find garage sales, estate sales, and moving sales across Alaska on one map.
Looking for Anchorage garage sales, or a moving sale in Wasilla? RummageBoard puts sales on a map, so you know where they are before you leave the house.
Browse with no account. Open the map and see the general area of every sale.
Get the exact address. It shows once you've confirmed your email and mobile number.
Hosts are verified too. Posting your sale costs nothing on the free plan.
Find a tutor in Alaska, and see how homeschool curriculum measures up.
Academy is where Alaska tutors, coaches, and homeschool programs can list what they teach. FrostBoard's curriculum reviews score homeschool programs on the same nine measures, including whether a qualified adult reads your child's work and responds to it.
Instructors pass the same ID check. An ID check confirms who someone is. It is not a background check, and FrostBoard checks identity, not how anyone teaches.
Every review uses the same nine measures. Compare programs on equal terms.
Getting listed is free. Tutors and coaches publish once they're verified and have at least one offering up.
Save listings and get saved-search alerts with a free account.
Why FrostBoard checks ID
Ask about the boat instead of wondering who's selling it.
Careful buyers and sellers already have a routine. They check how old the profile is and ask for one more photo before agreeing to meet. Up here that care counts for more, because a deal that falls through can cost a long drive and a day out of a short season.
Careful people still get caught. At the 2026 Great Alaska Aviation Gathering in Palmer, a man told us about a friend of his, a pilot who knew what he was doing, who was buying a propeller. He asked the right questions. The voice on the other end was not a person. Thirteen thousand dollars was gone, and an FBI report was filed.
The buyer did everything right.
Buyer
ID verified
You
ID verified
Ever wonder why fake profiles turn up on almost every buy-and-sell site? On most of them, an account takes thirty seconds to make, any name works, and nothing about it ever has to be real. FrostBoard asks for the one thing a throwaway account can't provide: a government ID.
Step 2. Confirm your email and your mobile number.
What it takes: click the link we email you, then type in the 6-digit code we text to your mobile number.
The code works for 30 minutes. The number has to be a US number that can get texts, and each number can be confirmed on one FrostBoard account only.
What it opens: every photo and video on a listing, sellers' first names and last initials, exact RummageBoard addresses, saved searches with alerts, and 15 AI searches a day.
Step 3. Verify your ID once, for the life of your account.
What it takes: a photo of your driver's license or passport, then a quick selfie. Most members finish in under 15 minutes.
FrostBoard's verification partner asks for the two photos. Your browser asks for permission to use your camera, and the selfie is matched to the photo on your ID. If a scan doesn't go through, you can try again at no extra charge, and a person on the FrostBoard team reviews borderline scans.
How long it lasts: your verification stays on your account for good, even after your license expires.
What it costs:Using FrostBoard is always free, no subscription required. ID verification is a one-time $5, free through December 31, 2026.
Listing items, posting events, posting in The Lodge, posting a garage sale on RummageBoard, and getting listed in Academy.
Messaging members, and seeing sellers' full names and contact details.
A verified badge next to your name, and a free 24-hour Boost for your next listing.
Why it matters:
It helps keep out scammers.
It helps keep out bots.
When you finish a Marketplace deal, you and the other person can review each other. It works like Amazon ratings, except these ratings are for people, and they go both ways.
If they did right by you, people get to hear about it. If they didn't, people need to hear about that too.
A member who breaks the Community Guidelines can be suspended or banned for good, and the ban stays with their ID, so that ID can't be used to verify a new account.
We store your driver's license information and your ID check results to prove your ID verification. Privacy Policy
You need to be 18 or older to open your own account. For anyone younger, a parent or guardian with a verified account can set up a supervised child account from their dashboard. The parent approves the child's listings and sees every message.
Using FrostBoard is always free, no subscription required.
FrostBoard has paid plans, and a lot of people see them and assume it's a subscription site. It isn't. Everybody can use FrostBoard at the free level, and every one of the five pillars is open on the free plan. ID verification, needed to list, post, or message, is a one-time $5, free through December 31, 2026.
Optional paid plans add more listings, photos, and video, longer Lodge posts with video, monthly Boost credits, and storefront tools for businesses. You never need one to use FrostBoard.
Membership
Free
Free to join, free to post, and free to buy and sell. FrostBoard charges no listing fee and takes no commission. Posting, listing, and messaging need the one-time ID check, free through December 31, 2026. Subscriptions, listing boosts, and donations are optional.
The free plan includes up to 10 active listings at a time. Paid plans raise the limits on listings, photos, and video.
Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist brought a lot of Alaskans together, and plenty of people still buy and sell there. What works differently on FrostBoard: every account that can list, post, or send you a message has a government ID check behind it.
Keep using whatever works for you. FrostBoard also puts an events calendar, The Lodge, RummageBoard, and Academy under the same free account.
Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist are trademarks of their owners, and FrostBoard is not affiliated with either.
FAQ
Questions people ask first
What is FrostBoard?
FrostBoard is Alaska's online marketplace and community, built to be the state's online infrastructure. It has five pillars: the Marketplace to buy, sell, and trade, a statewide events calendar, The Lodge for questions and answers, the RummageBoard map of garage sales and estate sales, and Academy for tutors and curriculum reviews. If you've bought or sold on Facebook Marketplace in Alaska, the Marketplace will feel familiar, and you can use FrostBoard as an alternative or right alongside it. Anyone can browse. The big difference is that listing, posting, and messaging take a free account and a government ID check.
Is FrostBoard free?
Yes. Using FrostBoard is always free, no subscription required. It's free to join, free to post, and free to buy and sell, and FrostBoard charges no listing fee and takes no commission. The one cost is the ID verification you need before you list, post, or message: a one-time $5, free through December 31, 2026.
Do I have to verify my ID just to buy something?
To message a seller or see their contact details, yes. Browsing, searching, and seeing prices take no account at all, and a free account with your email and mobile number confirmed shows every photo, the video, and the seller's first name and last initial. When you're ready to reach out, you verify your ID once, and it stays on your account for good. It's the same government ID check that's behind every listing, so both people in the deal have a verified name behind them.
Is FrostBoard legit?
Look around first, since browsing takes no account. FrostBoard launched in May 2026 at the Great Alaska Aviation Gathering in Palmer, and it's run from the Mat-Su Valley. The rules are published where anyone can read them: the Community Guidelines, the Firearms Policy, and how family accounts work. Every account that can list, post, or send you a message has a government ID check behind it, either the member's own or, on a supervised child account, the parent's.
Do I need a subscription to use FrostBoard?
No. Every one of the five pillars is open on the free plan, including up to 10 active listings at a time. Optional paid plans raise the limits and add extras like monthly Boost credits and storefront tools for businesses. You never need one to use FrostBoard.
What does ID verification involve, and what does FrostBoard store?
After you confirm your email and mobile number, FrostBoard's verification partner asks for a photo of your driver's license or passport and a quick selfie, which is matched to the photo on your ID. Most members finish in under 15 minutes. Once you pass, a verified badge shows next to your name. We store your driver's license information and your ID check results to prove your ID verification. More answers about ID verification
Do I ever have to verify again?
No. Your verification is good for the life of your account, and it stays on your account even after your license expires. If a scan fails, you can try again at no extra charge. If you delete your account and open a new one later, you'd verify again. A member banned for breaking the rules can't use the same ID to verify a new account.
FrostBoard is still new. Why join now?
It's early, and FrostBoard is smaller than the sites you already use. Every listing on it comes from a verified seller or was approved by a verified parent, and anyone who messages you about yours has a government ID check behind their account too. FrostBoard gets better with every Alaskan, business, and tutor who joins, and the members joining now help decide what it becomes.
Every Alaskan who verifies puts a real name behind FrostBoard. Every listing, event, answer, and garage sale they add makes it more useful for the next person.
$75OBOWooden Three Drawer Filing CabinetWasiilaID verified
$450OBOAlesis Surge Electric Drum Set, Complete Kit, PalmerPalmerID verified
