Posted on 05/08/2017 3:50:35 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It's nearing bedtime for Asher Huzar, but on a Tuesday night at 7:30 he ducks the rules, wriggles out from the dinner table and disappears to the basement for playtime. By the time his father, Nick Huzar, checks in on him, 3-year-old Asher has inflated his indoor bounce house, which provides him and his sister, Ava, with 15 minutes of entertainment before they pinball onto the next activity. Raising kids can be taxing, but at least for Huzar and his wife it has been relatively inexpensive. He bought the bounce house secondhand for $100. Huzar then points to Ava's princess mirror, which he scored for $70. Asher's Black & Decker toy tool set that supposedly came new from Santa? Just $50.
Huzar is the cofounder and CEO of OfferUp, so it's no surprise he's raising his children on hand-me-downs bought on the classifieds service he started six years ago. It's been a dizzying rise for OfferUp, which has outgrown its own playpen days, morphing into a stealth powerhouse that's on track to facilitate the sale of more than $20 billion worth of goods this year. That's nearly a quarter of what was sold on eBay EBAY -0.73% in 2016. With a valuation of $1.2 billion, OfferUp has established itself as one of the strongest and most credible challengers ever to Craigslist, that messy website of crowded blue hyperlinks whose iron grip on the online classifieds business represents one of the most unlikely monopolies of the internet era.
In the technology industry, where survival depends on constant innovation, conventional wisdom suggests Craigslist should have vanished long ago. Launched by Craig Newmark in 1995, the website, which has kept roughly the same design through the years and now has some 55 million visitors a month....
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I have personal proof that is NOT TRUE. Especially with eBay braying about "buyer protection". My photos clearly showed that the plants were half dead garbage. The seller responded that "I should have planted them in a pot". Who plants marigolds and such in a pot vs. an excellent prepared garden plot? You shouldn't need to do that. They should thrive in the ground. I purchased some more marigolds and other annuals after this at a local grocery store, identical species to the garbage the seller mailed me. I planted them in the same garden plot and they grew to large sizes and bloomed all summer. But eBay sided with this unscrupulous seller, and I've read about many similar situations.
“Nonsense. CL will be around because it works and for most people it’s free.”
Completely agree. If it ain’t broke.....
I’m an occasional peddler and go through bouts of getting rid of niche items that I’ve collected.
This week I’ve put up a few things and had a pair of vacuum wiper motors sell.
I hope to get my feedback rating above 666 with those motors.
Whether anyone needs a helicopter gearbox or a gunner’s quadrant, who is to say?
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