Would a community marketplace, organized in categories like Jow Forums is organized in boards (fashion, tech, etc.), that doesn’t take a service fee as percentage but instead takes a flat subscription fee from seller (like netflix/apple music) be successful?
A very low at that, let’s say $5-10/month
Why the fuck would you want that instead of Amazon or Craiglist you absolute brainlet?
Unless you have a small local counterculture niche to serve with this it's pretty hopeless to get anything going.
And if you do the thing doesn't need to be anything special, you could literally toss up a static bulletin board you'd update when/if people send their offers via email or whatsapp or whatever. Start milking it when the circles start moving money properly.
Maybe. Build it, market it and find out playa.
because amazon charges way way more to sellers.
Craiglist is just an ads websites. No tools to complete a transaction on it (a payment gate or paypal checkout), so way to leave users feedback nor curators (as far as I know).
There are many niche cultures like these. Clothing reselling, used tech/smartphones/Tablets, or new but harder to find, people wanting to sell vynils like on discog, or watches.
1/3 there. Built it, only deciding how to monetize it. The classic % service fee is not an option.
>The classic % service fee is not an option.
No not at first. Keep it free for awhile. Figure out how to monetize well after you've built it.
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OP, let's talk
Probably not. If you are appealing towards smaller sellers than this wouldn't work. Also, see very noided
We would start with $2/month, we can’t do less because we must be able to cover our expenses (servers, etc.).
Similar niche marketplaces websites and apps that are born in the last few years had explosive growth at the beginning. We have a very good product.
Also not true, even if you sell only 1 item at $100 on ebay or similar niche marketplaces you’d pay $6, on our site only $5 (after the trial months at $2, it would be $5/month if you sell 10).
After we have a small income we would offer a first free month (using unique paypal payerID, so no you cant make infinite free accounts).
I’m all ears.