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> "and I don't want to pay a price that is pretty close to what it would cost to just buy the tool!" Why not pay the full price for the tool + delivery (handle
by sgrove 13y ago
> "and I don't want to pay a price that is pretty close to what it would cost to just buy the tool!"
Why not pay the full price for the tool + delivery (handled by some monthly membership fee, maybe) to keep it as long as you like, and then push a button on your phone and someone shows up from the service to "buy it back" and return it to the cloud. You'd essentially be paying a deposit to cover the item, and then get the money back when the service got it back.
I'd liken this more to the original "netflix-for-everything", with a dash of exec/uber-for-everything.
- triplepoint217 13y agoA less centralized version of that would just be to make it really frictionless to resell things. So when I need the drill for once in a year, I pop uberlocalbuy, buy a drill from someone near me and either pick it up or pay for delivery. After I am done with it, there is an easy way to immediately relist the drill (possibly with an automatically computed depreciation of its value), and then the next person buys it from me.
- IanCal 13y agoThat's basically eBay + a tool to automatically create listings.
- IanCal 13y agoYou could do this p2p without having to have a central storage of all the tools. Assuming the scale is large enough, there should always be things available that you want. That also covers deprecation in value. The central service could charge a small amount and handle disputes, etc, and come with ratings of how reliable someone is. You could call it something like eBay.
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- sopooneo 13y agoI sort of see CraigsList as a rough version of this already. Buy a coffee table for as long as you want it, then sell it again when done.