Sydney startup Curbit lets users pick up someone’s unwanted goods from the kerb
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Re: Sydney startup Curbit lets users pick up someone’s unwanted goods from the kerb
#2Nice to see someone organizing the re-purposing of perfectly re-usable items...
Not sure what's in play in Australia, but in the U.S. there are more than a few individuals (entrepreneurs) who drive around looking for "curbed" articles...
These are gathered and added to second-hand shop inventories, for resale...
If that's true in Australia it's something you might want to be aware of...you might consider a way of ensuring that those interested in an article get a fair shot at it...just a customer satisfaction thing...
Good luck!
Re: Sydney startup Curbit lets users pick up someone’s unwanted goods from the kerb
#3Re: Sydney startup Curbit lets users pick up someone’s unwanted goods from the kerb
#4Does Craigslist have a section for Australia?
Re: Sydney startup Curbit lets users pick up someone’s unwanted goods from the kerb
#5Careful. Putting stuff on the kerb outside of official kerbside collections is considered illegal dumping in many Australian cities. It's hard to prosecute though, as the council generally needs to catch the offender in action ("not my stuff on the footpath guv"). Unless the law changes, it seems like a bad idea to dump something on the kerb, then post proof of your actions to a website. Councils will potentially view Curbit as an evidence collection service, rather than a recycling service.
Can anyone from Curbit confirm whether this will be an issue? It might be as simple as telling people to put the items in their front yard, rather than on the footpath.
Re: Sydney startup Curbit lets users pick up someone’s unwanted goods from the kerb
#6Does Craigslist have a section for Australia?
IMO Craigslist has no traction in Australia. The big player in classifieds is Gumtree [0] which is owned by Ebay.
Re: Sydney startup Curbit lets users pick up someone’s unwanted goods from the kerb
#7I appreciate the name. Curb+it, Cur_bit_.
Re: Sydney startup Curbit lets users pick up someone’s unwanted goods from the kerb
#8http://www.freecycle.org https://www.freecycle.org/about/background https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Freecycle_Network
Indeed, Freecycle have been operating in Australia for a long time. There are several other competitors too, the article doesn't make clear what Curbit's advantage/angle is. I'm all for the general idea and wish them well regardless, the amount of cheap stuff we buy and waste is astonishing.
Re: Sydney startup Curbit lets users pick up someone’s unwanted goods from the kerb
#9http://www.freecycle.org https://www.freecycle.org/about/background https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Freecycle_Network
Indeed, Freecycle have been operating in Australia for a long time. There are several other competitors too, the article doesn't make clear what Curbit's advantage/angle is. I'm all for the general idea and wish them well regardless, the amount of cheap stuff we buy and waste is astonishing.
Freecycle is pretty terrible in Australia.
Gumtree (craigslist equivalent in AU) 'for free' works far better.
Re: Sydney startup Curbit lets users pick up someone’s unwanted goods from the kerb
#10Careful. Putting stuff on the kerb outside of official kerbside collections is considered illegal dumping in many Australian cities. It's hard to prosecute though, as the council generally needs to catch the offender in action ("not my stuff on the footpath guv"). Unless the law changes, it seems like a bad idea to dump something on the kerb, then post proof of your actions to a website. Councils will potentially vie…
Yes it is illegal, but if my council is anything to go by the chance of anyone using curbit’s data to prosecute anyone is close to zero.
This basically happens organically anyway. There are teams of pickers who come around just before council pickups and take away anything of value (and lots of stuff of no value too). All that gets left to be collected by the council is the absolute rubbish (rotting mattresses, etc).
What I want to know with these sort of startups is how do they plan on making money?