Troy Yoakum
Lafayette, IN (USA)
Role(s):
Founder/Owner/Principal
FaceFlea.com
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Location:
Lafayette
Industry:
Other
Year Founded:
2015
Number Employees:
1-10 people
Business Stage:
Growth (not profitable)
Entity Type:
Sole Proprietorship
Description:
We are developing an online consignment shop and flea market for people to buy and sell stuff from Facebook and other social media platforms. We are making it so people will have their own accounts to buy and sell their own goods to other members and the public . Like a booth at a flea market, except that it is online only. All if the transactions will go through us so the there's no disputes and no scams etc.
All members will have their own user name and account page. Vendors ( people with multiple items that do this for a living or try to), will pay either a monthly fee or % of sales to us for their "Booth", and regular people who just want to put a few things or even 1 thing on their for sale will just pay us a percentage of the final selling price. We are linked with banks and credit card/debit card companies that will allow us to receive and pay the buyers and sellers as well as take our fees. We linked with FedEx, UPS, and the US Postal
service so all shipping will be processed through us with the seller boxing it for the mail carrier to pick up at their door.
Our Website development partner Nate, the Mastermind over at (URL removed) has provided us with unlimited email accounts for members, unlimited storage, unlimited pages, items,members,etc
(URL removed)'s kind of a Facebook flea market, except that we are the ONLY ones making the stuff for sale available to the entire world and not just their own little group in their home town.
Well, Came to me in the middle of the night. I had been trying to sell a phone in a local group for 4 days. I put it online and it sold in 5 minutes because it reached 5 billion people.
And then it hit me.