From Clutter to Cash: Harnessing a Buy/Sell/Trade Platform for Decluttering Success

Hello SPIer, Last week I wrote about why does HIVE not have a buy, sell, trade place. It's pretty standard across our blogging platforms and community forums and I think it would be awesome. I think back to my #silvergoldstackers buddies and know 100% they would use it for selling/trading silver. There are HIVE marketplaces but you need to go to their sites, would be cool if it were on hive.blog instead which would have 600 times more traffic.

Just as a thought experiment. Let's explore the idea if of a buy/sell/trade section or account would be viable and if there would be enough demand to make it work. There would be a few ways to do this.

1/ Start a HIVE # community

Creating a HIVE community is quick, easy and does not require alot of input other than promoting it. The thing is, there's no real way to monetize it for SPI to make a few HIVE. I know that sounds greedy but we need to make money at whatever we do. I guess communities like this would have been created already.

2/ Create an account to solely upload sell/trade posts

This would require more work but be more effective. We can beg people to follow the account. This would auto-add posts to their feeds and sell/trade posts would be displayed to them without them having to search a community.

The easiest way to do this would be to get advertise it and make the process be like this, DM me 200 words or under your product description and sales pitch and pictures. I upload at whatever date/time you like and split content rewards 50/50 with the seller/trader. They could sell/trade physical or digital things so gaming NFTs, even HIVE accounts, etc.

3/ Create a HIVE tribe

This would be alot of work and adding tokenomics/rewards pools/curation etc would only complicate things. Tribes in general can be expensive and very time-consuming so I dont think this would be a good option.

If done well and if it popped off, could be very profitable but I dont think I have the skills to make something like that happen. The problem is mostly because HIVE realistically does not have tens of thousands of users so being able to make money from a tribe is very hard and most people that start tribes aren't really prepared to fund them for 2-3 years at a loss before they can build them up.

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Maybe the whole idea is not worth it. Having a buy/sell/trade section might require a minimum amount of active users to make it work. It's the same for why there's not a HIVE lotto. There are not enough new people to fund it every week, people play a few weeks and never again, a lotto needs fresh funds coming in all the time. It could be the same as this idea, it would require new people to be selling/trading things at least daily to work it worthwhile.

I think from the 3 options above, the 2nd one would be best for everyone. Posting ads from 1 account that would appear in followers' feeds would work multiple times better compared to relying on someone to actively search for a community.

What do you think?

Im sure there are other ways to do it that I have not mentioned. Anyways drop some feedback in the comments below.