The offending occurred in October and November last year and included him making a fake profile under the names Chris, Dillon Ingram, Kya Harrison, Dillz and Positive Sheridanne.
On separate occasions, he listed items including two iPhone 6s, two fridges, a Huawei Y5 cellphone, three Samsung Galaxy 3 and an Apple iPad.
The summary outlined whenever a buyer agreed to purchase the individual items, Ingram would arrange for either part or full payments and would tell the victims he would deliver the items at an agreed time and location.
However, on each occasion, he failed to show up and those trying to buy the items lost their money.
Ingram did this on 10 occasions, stealing money to the value of $710 in amounts of $50, $106, $57, $65, $150, $60, $50, $65, $57 and $50.
The summary said once Ingram received the money from the buyers, he would do things such as delete the Facebook profile or block the buyers, preventing them from making contact.
On one occasion, with the buyer of a Haier fridge, he received a $60 deposit and arranged for delivery when the remaining would be paid. However, after receiving the deposit, he messaged the victim saying he had been offered more and would be refunding the victim's deposit, the summary said.
The victim chased up Ingram several times asking if his money had been refunded but he blocked him from contacting him further on Facebook.
Ingram's lawyer, Alistair Burns, noted a pre-sentence report had recommended a community-based sentence including community work and supervision. However, Burns said he acknowledged that was not realistic given Ingram's previous offending.
Judge Menzies agreed and said despite Ingram's young age, he had amassed more than 50 convictions, including 12 convictions in September 2018 relating to obtaining credit by deception which resulted in a prison sentence.
In explanation for his recent offending, Ingram said he needed money to move.
Judge Menzies said the offending took advantage of the community buying and selling items in a "high trust" situation.
He said he needed to give a sentence that deterred people from "ripping off " the community in such a way.
Judge Menzies said many people found themselves short of money but did not resort to such offending.
"You cannot treat the community as your own private bank when you find yourself short of money."
Judge Menzies sentenced him to nine months' imprisonment, disqualified him from driving for six months and ordered he pay $710 reparation to the victims, payable at $20 a week from 21 days after he is released from prison.
