Yardsale-

Easily sell large amounts of items in your very own online Yardsale!

Yardsale is a mobile application that allows users to post any item that they have and market it to consumers worldwide. It auto generates shipping labels for long distance transactions and has a customizable search to allow users to find exactly what they are searching for, and also an explore page to let consumers find deals related to their past searches. Yardsale automatically links to users paypal, to gauruntee security of both the buyers and sellers. Yardsale generates revenue by taking a portion of the sales of the retailers.

Collaborators and Roles

Marcus Benesch - Chief Technical Officer
Ian Love - (Leader) Customer Service/Quality Assurance
Matthew Ross- Marketing
Justice Griffin - Sales
Yusuke Yoshioka - Development

Collaboration Methods

Snapchat Group Chat
GitHub Sections

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Identifying Customer segment

Our application makes it easy for users to buy what they want most. In other words, we analyze purchasing activity / purchasing psychology as user segment. Yardsale constantly analyzes search words and information on items that users have seen in detail. By processing the images of the products, we realize the accuracy that has never existed. For example, if some users are looking at red shirts or red shoes, Yardsale suggest a red tie. Also Yardsale will change the items Yardsale recommend according to users' residence. Do high school students living in Texas need a thick coat? The answer is no. From ordinary purchase activities, we will organize these information and make it easy to find the products you always need. By using this technology, we are able to target a large and diverse customer segement. Our customer segment is primarily middle class users who wish to either make a little extra money on the side by selling items that they don't need or are looking for a bargain. More specifically we understand that a service will see heavy usage with Mothers from the age of 30-50. The reason behind this is likely that classic yardsales are often administered by this demographic. Mothers may list products or items that their children previsouly used or furniture that they have or will replace. To make this accesible to this demographic we plan to design our platform around our modible application. In a simliar case we also project many buyers using our service to be Mothers with the same age range as the sellers. Not just a choice of platform will be made, according to planned reasearch we will also show the deisgn elements needed to make our product appealing to this majority area of our users.

Value Propositions

By using our services users are able to have a Yardsale without the massive hassle. As shipping becomes a more and more standard way of trasferring goods we harness this trend taking out the large seller, sold to people by people. Our service is free to signup and list items, all we take is a small 3% per sale. We provide a platform that makes your items accsessble to anyone anywhere around the world. This helps our users to get the full value for their item rather than settling for less. Our service stands out with a "store" format. This, where users can list items in bulk and set their buyout price, also a feature to where a price can be negotiated. This through instant messaging integrated through our platform. You are able to shwocase each items with pictures and descriptions. You are even able to publish it to our catalog by category making your yardsale noticable by to all.

Products and Services

Our custromers are those of convienience so we design our products that way. The free version of our service takes a 3% cut on each sale by the user. Although a premium plan is avaible for constant users with a monthly reccurring fee. The free package is ideal for somone who doesn't make sales often and plans for long runnning sales. The monthly plan would be more suited for somone who makes sales on the daily. In the future we made add another option. Like a plan for longer periods of time than a month saving users even more money.