With online spending on a serious surge in recent months, web-entrepreneurs are taking cues from the likes of retailers like eBay and overstock.com-case in point: Darren Anderson’s Qwixo.com, a bare-boned online classified site selling anything and everything with next-to-nothing listing fees.
One dollar gets Joe Neighborhood a one-month listing for his collection of rare Pez dispensers. Ten bucks earns Sally Realestate a one-month listing for a half million-dollar home. There’s no auction, no middleman, no pre-arranged shipping. The experience leaves everything in the hands of the buyer and the seller.
Participants are given the choice to haggle, whether to market locally or nationally, and to decide exactly how the deal goes down.
“We are revolutionizing the way people do business with each other by providing an affordable way for sellers to connect with buyers,” reads the website, which also claims to be the next generation of classified ads.
The “Buy Anthing Sell Anything” classified site takes major credit cards and PayPal, or buyers and sellers can work out their own deal. Items for sale range from used Hummers to Elvis-style sunglasses, making the website a virtual garage sale on a much larger scale.
“An online auction site is great for rare artwork, but there’s really no avenue to sell an old Halloween costume,” Anderson told the Detroit News. “You can let it sit in the garage or you can sell it online.”
Or if you’re like me, you’d rather listen to Claudia’s take on it, who lists Qwixo.com as one of her favorites.
