We like the idea of peer-to-peer marketing, and the idea of putting the pricing power in the hands of the buyers. Sadly, there’s not much of a selection just yet, but it’s still a new site; a new site with a great idea, so that’s bound to change. If things go well, it should be a great place to find the gadgets we talk about here by this time next year. It’s also free to try until the end of this year, so feel free to get your feet wet.
Flippid [Flippid.com (beta, of course)]
Interesting… but will wait for the actual release before playing around with it… beta is just another word for “use at your own risk”. I wonder what EBay has in store when they get around to doing some much needed improvements to their site. It seems the more successful the company becomes, the longer it takes to do even fundamental improvements in their user interfaces.
Jon
Well as a company grows, there is more red tape that gets involved. More people to answer to and more permissions to obtain before you can make any changes. This is why innovation is quite slow for sites like Ebay and I am surprised that Google brings out new products as quickly that it does. This is not necessarily a bad thing though, it allows for start ups to have a chance to grab a place in the market because they can make changes quickly, thus making it hard for monopolies to exist.
Amit
This sounds like a great service. I often feel like I have stuff to sell if I only could find the right buyer. A lot of time I just keep the stuff sitting in my office closet!!! I can’t wait to see this in action.
Craig
My collection of ‘89 Fleer baseball cards rejoices, but I’m pretty sure they’re still worthless.
I like the BuyOff feature. Seems like a neat enough concept. It’s like putting swap meet online!
Kinda of like Jellyfish.com’s smackshopping (http://www.jellyfish.com) . The price keeps falling until the quantity of the product runs out, so you can buy it at the current price or wait till it gets lower but then you risk losing it.
Amit
Someone has to say it though: its hard to beat ebay for selling things at a much higher value than you should be getting for your item.
I suppose this might have its uses for more specialized things.
Exactly…
craigslist is a scammers heaven, but as long as you sell smart it isn’t hard to get a good deal. When no one is looking at your listing it’s much harder to get rid of your stuff quickly and at a good price