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Im building a p2p rental marketplace https://www.rentr.me/ https://www.rentr.me/ . Focused on NYC and allows NY'ers to safely rent items from each other. Curre

• derwiki 4y ago
  I used to be in this space. How are you going to handle fraud/theft? E.g. someone uses a stolen driver’s license/whatever to sign up with a verified account, uses a stolen card, shows up to borrow $highValue item, and then never returns it.
  • zarathustra333 4y ago
    Fair concern. Im using stripe to process payments and would be able to hold a user accountable if an item wasnt returned or was heavily damaged, but some mechanism should be put in place to verify people are who they say they are without adding too much friction to checkout / registration flow.
    • derwiki 4y ago
      What if that all checks out but someone else goes to actually pick up the item? IME it’s reasonable to verify that an identity is legit, but not that the person providing that identity is the person tied to that identity. And it all goes out the window when they send their boyfriend/assistant/coworker to actually pick up the item.