"Vinted hiện đạt giá trị 10 tỷ USD - bước nhảy vọt đáng kinh ngạc từ nền tảng mua bán đồ secondhand! Theo cộng đồng Reddit (r/SideProject). #Vinted #ThịTrườngThanhLy #Startup #SecondHandMarket #KinhTếXanh"
https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1ozgz41/vinted_now_valued_at_10b/
Mercari, Japan's leading secondhand platform, is expanding into Taiwan, leveraging cultural ties and growing demand for used goods. Despite challenges in the U.S., Mercari aims to rebuild its global presence through this strategic move. Taiwan’s strong e-commerce growth and consumer openness offer a promising opportunity for Mercari’s international ambitions. #MercariTaiwan #SecondhandMarket #GlobalExpansion
Founded in 2013 by Shintaro Yamada, Mercari, Japan’s leading second-hand goods marketplace, has recently made its foray into Taiwan. This move reflects the company’s continued ambition to expand…
Peak Design Launches a Marketplace to Buy and Sell Used Peak Gear
Peak Design has launched a peer-to-peer online marketplace for shoppers to buy and sell used Peak Design gear, which is guaranteed for life regardless of the owner.
The San Francisco head-quartered brand designs and sells everyday carry solutions for photographers and travelers, from differently sized bags, organizers, and straps, to clips and tripods. The company was founded by Peter Dering, who created a camera carry device Capture, which attracted large support on Kickstarter, and from there on the brand grew into a company that is proudly 100% crowdfunded and employee-owned and offers a variety of products.
To help facilitate buyers' access to second-hand Peak Design gear, the company has announced the launch of its Peak Design Marketplace, which is a brand-guaranteed online marketplace where customers can buy and sell Peak Design gear. It is currently in its beta version and limited to U.S. customers only, but the brand plans to expand to other countries soon.
Peak Design claims that it has removed the middleman from used gear transactions and has thus created a streamlined customer experience as it directly connects buyers with sellers, which also eliminates unnecessary and wasteful repackaging and additional shipping.
The company explains that "traditional used gear platforms often rely on intermediaries to facilitate transactions and to inspect, certify, repackage and reship gear," which is a method that "creates inefficiencies and waste, leading to a subpar experience for buyers, sellers, and the planet."
The company's mission is heavily linked to reducing its environmental impact, which is explained in detail in its 2020 sustainability report and is also incorporated in its latest online marketplace venture.
"If you make quality products that can have second and third lives, then their footprint on the world is divided by two or three,” the company states.
Equally, Dering is proud to have customers "that are both intelligent and sustainably-minded," which means that customers are able to complete all aspects of the transaction and, as noted, streamline the process. Also, the brand claims that all sales made on the platform are 100-percent carbon neutral.
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The marketplace utilizes a streamlined three-step process to post, ship, and collect payment. The platform automatically adds a flat shipping fee based on the product listed, which is included in the sale price that is shown to buyers while they are browsing. Once a user sells their second-hand product, Peak Design emails the seller a pre-paid shipping label and upon the receipt from the buyer, the seller will then be paid for the transaction.
A seller can choose payment either as cash or as store credit. If a user prefers a cash payment, Peak Design takes a 25% fee which goes towards third-party service Recurate, which maintains the Peak Design Marketplace. If a user chooses a store credit payout, there is no associated fee.
Regardless of how many times a product has been exchanged, Peak says that it is protected by the company's lifetime product guarantee. Also, both parties have access to Peak Design's customer support because the brand believes that regardless of how many times the product has changed hands, it doesn't change how the company fosters the product through its lifespan, giving all of its product users access to customer support if required.
Visit the Peak Design Marketplace to browse currently available items or list a new one.
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Used Camera Retailer MBP Raises $69M to Expand its Business
The used camera market is booming if a recent cash investment of £49.8 million (~$69 million) that MBP.com just raised is any indication. The company claims to "recirculate" about 300,000 pieces of equipment a year and expects to pass $139 million in revenue in 2021.
The latest funding round, classified as a Series D as noted by TechCrunch , was led by Vitruvian Partners with participation from current investor Action Capital, Mobius Equity Partners, Beringea, and FJ Labs. The Brighton-based online used goods retailer says it plans to use the investment to expand into more markets and extend its marketplace -- MBP currently has offices in Brooklyn and Berlin in addition to its home base of Brighton -- to serve a wider range of content creators.
In total, MBP has raised about $91 million since it was founded in 2011 with the lion's share of that coming in this most recent round. It has declined to state its valuation, but this particular investment is the largest ever for a startup out of Brighton.
“This funding round is a major milestone for MPB, culminating a decade of strong performance and a vision to make great kit accessible and affordable,” Matt Barker, the founder and CEO of MBP, said in a statement. “With the backing of Vitruvian Partners and those reinvesting in our business, we can accelerate our US and European growth strategy at scale, profitably. Photography and videography are intrinsic to societies and cultures all over the world, and at MPB we have created a circular model that offers everyone the chance to be visual storytellers and content creators in a way that’s good for the planet.”
The entire used goods market has apparently been booming amidst the pandemic as people are cleaning out their homes to make room for the work-from-home landscape and make a little bit of money as a bonus. This apparently has extended to the very specific niche of content creation devices such as cameras and photographic equipment, the market in which MBP specializes.
MBP's success isn't one that exists in a vacuum either. At the end of 2020, KEH published a blog calling it a "banner year" for the organization, a rarity when so much of the global economy was in shambles.
"It seems that word has finally spread to the masses that buying brand new is played out, and that buying used is where it's at. And that's certainly music to our ears—when it comes to used gear, we've been the standard-bearers since 1979," the company wrote in a blog.
With the resurgence of film and because used equipment is always more cost-effective than buying new, the success of KEH and the jump in value to MBP isn't that hard to believe.
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