Hey guys,
I prepared a silly open letter I've been passing around to friends and sellers I've known for a while. I am just trying to generate feedback and gauge interest. The general gist of this open letter is to see whether people think there could be a solution to current paradigm. This paradigm is privately owned companies with sleek websites and useless features being deadweight to our actual use-case of exchanging secondhand clothing. All we need is a simple website with minimal fees and a commitment to user-experience over user-interface.
What I can say is that we would look at trying to make a simple website with a simple hosting with open-source code so that we can start directly competing with halving the fees of ebay/grailed. And our actual plan would be to move, with scale, to LOWER fees at around one third of grailed/ebay. I explain how we will guarantee a commitment to lowering and lower fees indefinitely below.
There will never be deadweight material on our site, if it goes ahead. Just things like authenticity checks, scam management, etc. We only intend to deal with a certain collection of brands due to the fact that we deem SZ-style brands less attractive to young people. Unfortunately as a community-run website we will have to exclude brands that are heavily associated with scamming like Supreme and Jordans. We welcome anyone to copy our idea, copy our code, copy anything to make a similar website dealing with these brands.
I prepared a silly open letter I've been passing around to friends and sellers I've known for a while. I am just trying to generate feedback and gauge interest. The general gist of this open letter is to see whether people think there could be a solution to current paradigm. This paradigm is privately owned companies with sleek websites and useless features being deadweight to our actual use-case of exchanging secondhand clothing. All we need is a simple website with minimal fees and a commitment to user-experience over user-interface.
What I can say is that we would look at trying to make a simple website with a simple hosting with open-source code so that we can start directly competing with halving the fees of ebay/grailed. And our actual plan would be to move, with scale, to LOWER fees at around one third of grailed/ebay. I explain how we will guarantee a commitment to lowering and lower fees indefinitely below.
There will never be deadweight material on our site, if it goes ahead. Just things like authenticity checks, scam management, etc. We only intend to deal with a certain collection of brands due to the fact that we deem SZ-style brands less attractive to young people. Unfortunately as a community-run website we will have to exclude brands that are heavily associated with scamming like Supreme and Jordans. We welcome anyone to copy our idea, copy our code, copy anything to make a similar website dealing with these brands.
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