So what can we do?
Well lately I've been retooling the site to handle one particularly under-served market:
garage sales and flea markets.
On most classifieds sites, the process of selling a garage full of stuff (or lawn or driveway, for that matter) is an arduous task:
You list out all the stuff that you have for sale:
xbox360 RROD
parted out Ps2
dead calalily
fishbowl
old socks
black and white 13" RCA tv
2x bookshelves
Ruby on Rails book
AJAX for dummies
used McDonalds cup
Excel 4.0 handbook
and you get a flurry of email responses
when one item is sold, frequently there's many requests for the same item, although it's been promised to someone else.
with the upcoming "Batch Post" feature, you're able to create batches of items
for sale, or free,
and as they're spoken for, they're made unavailable, or the quantity changes.
This allows you to have a Garage Sale, without actually even having a garage.
Post what you want to get rid of in batch, then come saturday people just show up with money and hands ready to carry things away.
Useful also for people who go to flea markets - know exactly how much inventory you need to bring by the number of responses, and show up ready to empty your trunk.
Hopefully this is something people will find useful in all seasons.
Meanwhile I'll be wary of those lingerie housemaids.
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