The fine print, without the fine print
What is this?
A place where you post what you're looking for, and anyone can offer to sell it to you, with the price always in plain sight. It's not a store. It's not an auction. It's a market where demand comes first, not supply.
Nobody here pressures you. On purpose.
"Only 2 left." "Ends in 3 minutes." "Last room available." You know the trick.
You see someone looking for a vase just like the ugly one your grandmother gave you as a wedding gift. You hate it so much you'd pay to be rid of it, and on top of that, someone offers you €20. You take it. Done. Sold.
That, actually, was the first version of this whole idea: solve one half of the problem. Somebody else gets what they were looking for. You get to sell what you never wanted. Not bad, as far as it goes.
But something kept bothering us. What if the vase is actually a Ming piece, and one, or both, of the parts have no idea? You'd have sold it for €20, patted yourself on the back for getting rid of it, and never known the difference.
So we added a twist. The deal doesn't close right away: it stays paused for a while, visible to everyone. And that's when someone else can step in: "Wait. I'll give you 500 for that. Do you know what you have there?"
It's simple:
- − information − time = bad decision
- + information − time = bad decision
- − information + time = bad decision
- + information + time = good decision
Only one combination works, and it needs both at once. That's why we take it seriously that everyone knows the same thing, and that nobody has to decide under "now or never" pressure. No deal closes instantly: there's a minimum waiting period (we're still fine-tuning it, starting somewhere between 24 and 48 hours) before anything is truly locked in.
If you know of anything that already does this with universal reach, for any kind of item, in any country, we haven't found it. What exists are partial solutions: "wanted" sections buried inside Craigslist or similar classifieds, disorganized Facebook groups, quote-request platforms for one specific industry. Even eBay tried something like this once, with a feature called "Want It Now", and pulled it, after it filled up with irrelevant offers and people closing deals off the platform. Here, conversations always stay inside, never on the side. And since neither buyer nor seller ever pays anything, there's no incentive to sneak off: there's no commission to dodge.
On spam, trolls, irrelevant junk, or plain rudeness: we'll be watching. There are more automated tools today than there used to be, and we'll use them. If a human ever needs to review something by hand, it won't be someone in miserable conditions, paid pennies to sift through the internet's worst content so others don't have to. That's part of trying to do this right too.
How much does it cost?
Nothing. It's free. Posting, searching, making offers, closing a deal: all of it, always.
Running this costs real money every month, even while it stays free for you: hosting, phone verification, email, all of it. If you've ever wondered how to help without it costing you anything to use the thing itself, there's a way.
We think that's the only way to be truly independent: to not depend on an investor who one day demands profit at any cost, to not have to put whoever pays more ahead of whoever's right.
Will it stay free forever?
The essentials, posting what you're looking for, seeing what others offer, closing a fair deal: yes. Always, we hope.
We have ideas for growing this further down the line, and some of them might end up being paid, optional, for whoever wants them. It would be a way to fund the rest of the project without touching what makes this work for everyone: nobody will ever have to pay to post, to search, or to close a fair deal.
If that ever happens, we'll say so here, just as plainly as we're saying everything else, not in a footnote nobody reads.
Who's behind this?
A project that started as a very simple idea: too often, someone looks for something and can't find it, while someone else has exactly that thing tucked away, with no idea anyone's looking for it. The name of the site, if you were wondering, comes from that.
We are a singular team, where the relevant word is "singular."
For years, this idea lived only inside one head, with no way out, told over dinner, to politely patient listeners quietly thinking "...but isn't that what Google's for?" Today it exists thanks to artificial intelligence tools, Claude, by Anthropic, and Lovable, that made it possible for someone without a development team to build something real, not just imagine it. Credit where it's due.
What if something goes wrong?
Something will go wrong, at some point. We don't promise perfection. We promise that when it happens, we'll say so, we'll fix it, and we won't pretend it didn't happen. See what's already gone wrong →
Why we wrote this
We could have put up a cookie banner and a tiny link to some terms of service nobody reads, and left it at that. We'd rather do this instead: explain ourselves, in our own words, without hiding the uncomfortable parts. If after reading this you decide not to use us, we understand. If you decide to stay, thank you for trusting something that's still being built right in front of your eyes.
Want to tell us something?
We read everything that lands here (except spam, gratuitous insults and declarations of eternal love, which we'll quietly frame). We can't promise a quick reply but, whenever we can, we'll write back.
Staying safe
We never handle money, so every deal happens between you and the other person. A few habits that make that go well:
- See it before you pay. For anything you can hold, meet, look, then pay. Paying upfront to someone you don't know is the one mistake that's hard to undo.
- Meet somewhere public. A café beats a car park. Daylight beats midnight.
- Keep the chat here until you're comfortable. You can share your number whenever you like, you just never have to.
- Read the reputation. Closed deals, broken deals and stars are there for a reason. And leave yours after every deal: it's how the next person stays safe.
- If something feels off, it probably is. Report it: we read every report.
A word about being new. We've only just started, so our history is thin. One day, with ten years and a few million deals behind us, a profile with 300 closed deals and 4.9 stars will tell you almost everything you need to know. Today, it might just tell you that someone sold a lamp to their cousin. That's why this list leans on old-fashioned common sense rather than on our numbers. Help us change that: every rating you leave makes the next person's decision a little better informed.