Show HN: Swapidy: Trade up your old stuff for new stuff
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Re: Show HN: Swapidy: Trade up your old stuff for new stuff
#2Hi! This is Adam and Pulkit, the co-founders of Swapidy. We've been tirelessly working on this for a while and hope you'll check it out and give us some feedback. Right now we're only buying and selling limited products but we plan to expand our category line based on demand. If you're in the bay area, there's a good chance that we will hand-deliver your device the day you purchase it and it would be our pleasure to talk to you in person for a few minutes.
Re: Show HN: Swapidy: Trade up your old stuff for new stuff
#3Hi! This is Adam and Pulkit, the co-founders of Swapidy. We've been tirelessly working on this for a while and hope you'll check it out and give us some feedback. Right now we're only buying and selling limited products but we plan to expand our category line based on demand. If you're in the bay area, there's a good chance that we will hand-deliver your device the day you purchase it and it would be our pleasure to…
Congrats on launching guys! I've known the founders for a while.. Extremely talented and persuasive 18 year old college dropouts, check out their team bios.
Re: Show HN: Swapidy: Trade up your old stuff for new stuff
#4Congrads on the Relaunch guys
Great work from the Under20 network
Good luck guys =)
Re: Show HN: Swapidy: Trade up your old stuff for new stuff
#5Awesome Guys! I know personally Adam & Pulkit, both 18 year old Stanford & Upen dropouts..Extremely Hard-workers and Talented! May the force be with you my young Padawans!
Re: Show HN: Swapidy: Trade up your old stuff for new stuff
#6This looks really neat, but I've got some comments/questions:
* Typo when trying to set up a sale of a Late 2010 MacBook air: Choose your product's "condtion"
* Where do the prices come from? Are they competitive with other trading sites? For example, a "MacAir 13' Late2010 1.86GHZ 2GB RAM 128 Flash" in "Good" condition goes for $407 on Gazelle, but h3750 ($375?) on Swapidy. However, Gazelle does give me the option to include my power adapter and specify that I have a working battery.
* Why honey? Why not real money?
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Re: Show HN: Swapidy: Trade up your old stuff for new stuff
#7So money can be converted into honey, but honey cannot be converted into money.
How does that not make this strictly less useful than transacting in good old money?
Re: Show HN: Swapidy: Trade up your old stuff for new stuff
#8This looks really neat, but I've got some comments/questions: * Typo when trying to set up a sale of a Late 2010 MacBook air: Choose your product's "condtion" * Where do the prices come from? Are they competitive with other trading sites? For example, a "MacAir 13' Late2010 1.86GHZ 2GB RAM 128 Flash" in "Good" condition goes for $407 on Gazelle, but h3750 ($375?) on Swapidy. However, Gazelle does give me the option t…
I'm also curious about the choice of virtual currency.
From perusing their FAQ, it seems like you can buy Honey with real money, but it doesn't look like you can get your money back out. Ick.
Re: Show HN: Swapidy: Trade up your old stuff for new stuff
#9This looks really neat, but I've got some comments/questions: * Typo when trying to set up a sale of a Late 2010 MacBook air: Choose your product's "condtion" * Where do the prices come from? Are they competitive with other trading sites? For example, a "MacAir 13' Late2010 1.86GHZ 2GB RAM 128 Flash" in "Good" condition goes for $407 on Gazelle, but h3750 ($375?) on Swapidy. However, Gazelle does give me the option t…
1) Thanks, will fix that!
2) The prices are generated based on current market value and are changed constantly. In most cases, our offer will be higher than most sites because we pay in virtual currency. That gives us the ability to offer you more value. It really depends on what the current demand is like.
3) With Honey, we can offer you more unlike cash where there is more up front overhead.
Did that answer your questions?
-Adam
Re: Show HN: Swapidy: Trade up your old stuff for new stuff
#10This looks really neat, but I've got some comments/questions: * Typo when trying to set up a sale of a Late 2010 MacBook air: Choose your product's "condtion" * Where do the prices come from? Are they competitive with other trading sites? For example, a "MacAir 13' Late2010 1.86GHZ 2GB RAM 128 Flash" in "Good" condition goes for $407 on Gazelle, but h3750 ($375?) on Swapidy. However, Gazelle does give me the option t…
1) Thanks, will fix that! 2) The prices are generated based on current market value and are changed constantly. In most cases, our offer will be higher than most sites because we pay in virtual currency. That gives us the ability to offer you more value. It really depends on what the current demand is like. 3) With Honey, we can offer you more unlike cash where there is more up front overhead. Did that answer your qu…
Why does using virtual vs. real currency affect your ability to dynamically adjust prices?