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Dibs: Sell and Buy stuff easier
Dibs is a website designed to help you buys and sell stuff in your local area. The site works as an online bulletin board similar to Craigslist. The difference between Craigslist and Dibs however is that items you put up for sale are ONLY available for people registered in your area to purchase rather than people around the country. That way you don't end up with some guy 3,000 miles away trying to get you to ship your coffee table to him.If you've ever tried to sell something on Craiglist you've probably gotten a bunch of emails with different offers for your items. Dibs keeps all of the contact about the sale of your item on the site itself so you're inbox doesn't get flooded with emails. Users can ask questions about an item, and make an offer on the site. You can look at all of the offers that have been made for your item and accept the best one as well as make arrangements to hand off the item on Dibs without ever giving out your personal information. Once your item is sold Dibs takes care of taking the item off the web and making sure you don't get questions about things you've already gotten rid of.
Once neat thing about Dibs is that every seller gets their own unique URL, that way if you're selling a crapload of stuff at once you can advertise elsewhere and point users to a single domain that will list all of your items, and only the items you're selling.
Dibs launched in July of this year. The site is free to use but doesn't have very many items up for sale yet even in larger cities, a definite drawback if you're looking to shop.
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Rob D said 12:45PM on 10-09-2007
Craigslist lets you advertise by region, and you don't have to register at all to use it.
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Kevin said 6:46PM on 10-09-2007
Thanks Emily for the writeup! I worked like mad to bring Dibs online, and it's thrilling watch people pick up on it.
@Rob - True, but the personal subdomain (http://yourname.dibs.net), would be impossible without some sort of account. Registering should result in fewer spams and scams, which plague Craigslist. In any case, things like OpenID and other upcoming features should make the point moot.
Want something more out of Dibs? Tell me what's missing at http://support.dibs.net.
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