I’ve had this site, OurThreads.com, open in my browser for a week, trying to choose whether to blog about it.
The pros:
it’s a site that promotes swapping of clothes in addition to buying/selling
it lets individuals donate the money they make from their wardrobes to the charitable cause of their choice
the interface looks quite nice
The cons:
sites such as this are only as great as their individual base, as well as their individual base best now (although they all seem like extremely good people!) isn’t extremely large
it’s only somewhat less difficulty to take photos as well as listing products on a site such as this as it is for eBay, as well as eBay would most likely web you much more money
there were only 19 gowns noted when I last checked.
Anyway, I’m not offered yet. I believe what would truly make this site work is a something like Amazon’s “Resell Your Books” feature. indication up a few huge on the internet garments sellers (GAP.com, Amazon, Bluefly, Overstock.com, Zappos, etc.), as well as get them to let OurThreads.com individuals submit their purchase histories. match people who have similar sizes/purchase histories, as well as then alert them to every other as well as see if they want to trade.
They might likewise let you (with a widget/bookmarklet) “shop” on other, non-partner sites as well as mark things you’ve bought, which would add that thing immediately to your “closet”.
For every person who states “eeeew … utilized clothes?” there will be two who will purchase that additional sweatshirt if they understand they can offer or switch it in a few months for something new-to-them.
Having people submit their own stuff is so old-web, as well as as well much work. Make it passive, or almost passive, as well as you’re much more than halfway there. A truly helpful site would know/figure out (with my permission) what I’ve already bought, as well as then would ping me when people who have similar tastes mark the stuff THEY already purchased with a “willing to trade/sell” marker.
So I present the concerns to you, my dear readers. would you utilize a site like OurThreads.com, as it is now? would you take photos of your stuff, explain it, put it up on this site, as well as then field requests to trade a pair of barely-worn space grass-green ballet flats for your barely-worn grass-green cardigan? (Not that I have a pair of shoes like that gathering dust in MY wardrobe …) I’m not sure I would. however I’d indication up for a passive, automatic-info-gathering clothing-swap site in a heartbeat …
(And while I’m speaking about advances in buying tech — somebody has lastly implemented my dream of a shop-by-color application. It’s right here at Yahoo! Shopping. Of course, in my dream it was by Pantone, however hey. You take what you can get. now do you see why my pitch for a shopping-by-color service got third location in the web 1.0 pitch contest at Wikimania 2006? Vindication is suh-weet.)
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