Hello all, My names Brad. I'm really excited for my current project and decided to make a post with my milestones. So I've been paintballing for about 10 years now, and with any hobby theres always a community that buys, sells and trades gear. For years the paintball community only had 1 place where paintballers could do deals, which was PbNation.com. This site is an old forum which has quite a few flaws. You have to upload pics to a 3rd party site to post, theres constant ads in your face, searching for what your looking for can take forever. I can go on and on. I've had my fair share of getting scammed on this site a few times, but it was a price I and the paintball community had to pay given this was roughly the only place we could do deals. There is eBay which offered some protection, but with the fees being %10 and gear ranging between $50-$2000 they add up pretty quickly. Next comes facebook marketplace. Which can be good in some aspects, but has more issues than good. Theres no feedback system, so you don't know who you're dealing with, users can simply block you in the middle of a deal, and the payment system on facebook has no safety net. even when you do have an issue with payment, facebooks customer service is terrible. Last issue I had took me nearly a month to resolve.
I decided to take action and address all the issues with the community. I started BallerSwap.com. I've sourced a team of coders on Fiverr to help with the site build, since I'm not 100% fluent in coding. We are currently working on the backend and about %80 complete. I'm hoping to have the site Launched end of this month, or early September. This site will change the way the community does deals. It offers an easy search/filter system, authenticity process, (proves the user physically has the item) paypal only, and a bunch of other perks. I've done hours, if not days researching my competitors, ( PbNation, Facebook Marketplace, eBay, and Trademygun ) I've narrowed everything down to shipping and have all of them beat. My fee is only $10, which the buyer pays, so the seller has no fee to use the marketplace other than PayPal. I'm implementing a Mod system, so each listing is thoroughly reviewed before its published to the site so rule out any issues.
In the words of Mj, "Build it once, and it will work for you 24/7" Appreciate the feedback in advance!
P.S. If you're a paintballer, please comment! I'd love feedback, and curious to see how many of you are on here.
I decided to take action and address all the issues with the community. I started BallerSwap.com. I've sourced a team of coders on Fiverr to help with the site build, since I'm not 100% fluent in coding. We are currently working on the backend and about %80 complete. I'm hoping to have the site Launched end of this month, or early September. This site will change the way the community does deals. It offers an easy search/filter system, authenticity process, (proves the user physically has the item) paypal only, and a bunch of other perks. I've done hours, if not days researching my competitors, ( PbNation, Facebook Marketplace, eBay, and Trademygun ) I've narrowed everything down to shipping and have all of them beat. My fee is only $10, which the buyer pays, so the seller has no fee to use the marketplace other than PayPal. I'm implementing a Mod system, so each listing is thoroughly reviewed before its published to the site so rule out any issues.
In the words of Mj, "Build it once, and it will work for you 24/7" Appreciate the feedback in advance!
P.S. If you're a paintballer, please comment! I'd love feedback, and curious to see how many of you are on here.
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