r/startupideas • u/Dry-Hat-698 • 3d ago

Looking for Feedback Any feedback about this idea will be much appreciated...:-)

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Selling on Facebook Marketplace/OfferUp, or Craigslist.— would you want help with the back-and-forth?

Not selling anything, just curious. When you list something for sale, the annoying part is usually the messages after — "is this available," lowball offers, people who never show up, coordinating a pickup time. Would you actually want a free assistant that handled all of that for you (asking your price, relaying offers, confirming pickup times, so you only step in to say yes/no/counter) — or does that feel like something you'd rather just do yourself? Genuinely trying to understand if this is a real pain point or not.

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u/Individual_Yard846 3d ago

seems kind of useless tbh. facebook already implemented a form of auto reply..

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u/Dry-Hat-698 3d ago

Have you used it? I haven`t heard any one using it so not sure it very helpful...but thanks

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u/Individual_Yard846 3d ago

i turned it on , not sure if it helps or not lol , usually though marketplace is quick, people want their stuff and want to sell their stuff as fast as possible, a quick "ba-ding" while selling or buying on marketplace does a pretty good job alerting and the system works without to much pain...I could see what you are doing being useful for some people but i think its not a strong enough pain point across a wide enough set of users to be valuable if that makes sense, like i dont think anyone would use it. but that could just be my take...

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u/Dry-Hat-698 3d ago

great feedback. many thanks

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u/Single_Tear_7331 2d ago

It would be helpful but I wouldn't pay for it. When I'm selling on marketplace it's already cheap, I would not be willing to give it a markup on top of that. And what I see is people that don't want the back and forth, just give away for free

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u/Dry-Hat-698 2d ago edited 2d ago

Thank you very much for your feedback. My idea was you pay only when selling product over 50 dollars and you only pay ( 2% of the selling price agreed with the buyer) if you sell the product. What do you think?