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Unfortunately the potential for abuse makes this idea hard to implement. Abusers would use the system to sell their drugs (ie, junk item stuffed with cocaine lists for $9999). Let’s not forget the sale of illegal firearms (aka teddy bear stuffed with handgun with filed off serial number). Now you need a proper drug detection protocol, X-ray machines to scan all packages, dedicated security personnel. Then there’s the…
As much as I dislike Meta, Facebook Marketplace is basically this. My town also has a “swap shop”, which makes it really easy to give away still-useful things.
When you list something for free you soon find out how bad people are at communicating and how unreliable they are at showing up when they say they will show up.
I'm currently trying to help a relative who's a hoarder, and I have to say, reducing the friction of getting rid of things without just mass-dumpstering them would be a godsend I think this is one of those ideas that needs scale to work well, like craigslist or ebay pretty much got rid of all the friction you can without propping up a fulfillment network and appraisers etc., but if anyone's got a good way to make it…
Once postings consistently have UPCs attached, you can figure out the market price for everything and push that to people who own the product when the price goes up.
You can also push out product recall and class action lawsuit alerts.
The receipt would really be a proof of purchase, since it's cryptographically signed. So it could be used to make verified third party product reviews without the conflict of interest of the site also selling products.
You could hook your personal inventory database up to your social network to make a lending library with all your friends. Why buy something new when you can search all your friends' stuff and borrow from them?
Unfortunately the potential for abuse makes this idea hard to implement. Abusers would use the system to sell their drugs (ie, junk item stuffed with cocaine lists for $9999). Let’s not forget the sale of illegal firearms (aka teddy bear stuffed with handgun with filed off serial number). Now you need a proper drug detection protocol, X-ray machines to scan all packages, dedicated security personnel. Then there’s the…
Or did I misunderstand