Great question. It can be hard to run a marketplace for expensive items as I feel like people have a threshold for the amount of money they’re comfortable risking online through payments. Most people started with buying books online then built up their tolerance to risk through more successful transactions. Credit card refunds and Paypal …
If you’re looking to build a classifieds website like Kijiji (Canada) or a marketplace like Gumtree (Australia), you could potentially use Sharetribe to build it but you will come up against some limitations in managing listings. Sharetribe is built more for, what I’ll call, persistent or permanent listings. These are marketplace listings where you list your …
What we used in building our peer to peer school uniform marketplace using Sharetribe. Categories KINDER ELEMENTARY/PRIMARY MIDDLE SCHOOL HIGH SCHOOL TERTIARY Order Types Sell School Uniform Barter/Trade Uniforms Request Uniform School – Lost Property School – Uniform Shop Listing fields & filters School Name Text Item/s (condition) Dropdown New, Excellent, Good, Fair, Varied Uniform …