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Cleerk – the search engine that finds buyers for you (cleerk.com)
3 points by cleerk on Nov 14, 2014 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



Scanning Craigslist for buy requests is a bit primitive, but I do like the design. A problem with using Craigslist (besides the possibility of being sued/blocked for scraping) is that for most items, out-of-area approaches are likely to be declined as spam or scams. As someone into electronic musical instruments (some of which are rare or obscure), I've received an almost uniformly negative response to offers made outside of my travel radius (ie 'could I send you money by paypal and you ship your item to me?'). For that matter Craigslist itself warns that such offers are probably scams.

I do really like your bold design. I think you should rework the back end - build up large database of items for sale on eBay, Amazon, etc. to establish median prices and turnaround times, then position your service as an automated placement assistant. Yeah, others are already working that model but you have nicer design, so work that angle.




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