Dibs: Sell and Buy stuff easier

Dibs is a website designed to help you buys and sell stuff in your local area. The site works as an online bulletin board similar to Craigslist. The difference between Craigslist and Dibs however is that items you put up for sale are ONLY available for people registered in your area to purchase rather than people around the country. That way you don't end up with some guy 3,000 miles away trying to get you to ship your coffee table to him.

If you've ever tried to sell something on Craiglist you've probably gotten a bunch of emails with different offers for your items. Dibs keeps all of the contact about the sale of your item on the site itself so you're inbox doesn't get flooded with emails. Users can ask questions about an item, and make an offer on the site. You can look at all of the offers that have been made for your item and accept the best one as well as make arrangements to hand off the item on Dibs without ever giving out your personal information. Once your item is sold Dibs takes care of taking the item off the web and making sure you don't get questions about things you've already gotten rid of.

Once neat thing about Dibs is that every seller gets their own unique URL, that way if you're selling a crapload of stuff at once you can advertise elsewhere and point users to a single domain that will list all of your items, and only the items you're selling.

Dibs launched in July of this year. The site is free to use but doesn't have very many items up for sale yet even in larger cities, a definite drawback if you're looking to shop.

[via EmilyChang]

Tags: buying online, BuyingOnline, selling online, SellingOnline