Will You Trade/Swap at OzBargain?

Scott on 2008-08-22 at 12:23 am, filed under OzBargain

Every now and then someone would want sell something on OzBargain. I have been hesitated to create a market place on OzBargain, because

  • Work work work! To have a “proper” market place for people to trade and swap, I need to do more coding. But I am still struggling to squeeze time to implement features that people have requested yonks ago…
  • Create a fair market place is hard. Look at eBay and the amount of fraud associated with it. I simply do not have the resource to ensure every user/item listed is legit.
  • Spamming. You create something and they will come. And they suck.
  • We already have eBay, OZtion and other auction shops. We also have craigslist and gumtree where you can find people to swap things with. There is also a new Sydney-based startup OurSwaps.com (whom I will review later) for this very purpose. Why do we need another market place?

But then someone reckoned that a market place at OzBargain is gonna to be big. So I quickly hacked up a new forum for the OzBargain members to sell or swap — completely free! However make you you read the selling/swapping guideline first.

Will you trade or swap at OzBargain?

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    You’re right Scotty, the risk is always there but that’s always how it is with trade/swap on forum. If lucky, maybe that person selling lives close by.

    But I’ll give it a go. :)

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