Question about buy/sell forum

[RocknRoll]

@goosehd
Cool, i like that approach, and maybe i am being a bit over-cautious.

[Jord]

@RocknRoll What I found on other forums which have a marketplace is "you choose the seller" just as much as the item, especially when doing payment methods such as PPFF... I have no idea why people would buy from someone that is completely new to the forum and is selling expensive items

[RocknRoll]

Yeah for sure. I would neither buy from, nor sell to, someone who has just signed up (unless i know who they are via some other means). They might be perfectly legitimate, but the risk is higher than I’m willing to accept.

[goosehd]

@RocknRoll I think this speaks volumes about the marketplace here:

Between the members here, the admin, and we the mods…not a lot of bull shit is tolerated.

[goosehd]

If we suspect you are scamming or taking advantage of members, your time here on the forum is very limited…

Edit: I don’t mean you but the general anyone who thinks they can pull a scam here…

[RocknRoll]

Those are some favourable stats. Perhaps my approach has been influenced by the prevalence of scamming on some other platforms.

Thanks for easing my mind.

[Daysleepers]

@AdamJ the amount of money I spend on Marrkt is obscene.

I would happily pay IHUK more than stuff goes for on the secondary market, and Marrkt takes a fairly hefty cut. I believe about 40%.

Obviously they have to manage everything including shipping and returns, but having reloved including customer consigned items would fill it up somewhat. I have never found anything that’s what I’m looking for on there so I now never check.

I’m sure this has been discussed and would be a load more work than would be viable, but with the infrastructure in place already I figured worth mentioning that there is enough margin for consigned items to work.

[AdamJ]

@Daysleepers It would get messy with the financial side of things, namely holding money and taking % is way more complicated than the standard transactional system we have now.

That was also the primary reason I decided against developing our own standalone platform because competing with Grailed/Maarkt/eBay is not easy with the payment processor fees etc.

When you say you can't find what you want, is that down to looking for specific items or the actual UX of the relove category?

[Daysleepers]

@AdamJ it’s very easy to use, just obviously limited in stock, that’s all. I religiously check Marrkt every day, and their UX is terrible.

I’d love to be able to set stock alerts for restocks of new items and be alerted to matching reloved items.