Our thanks to consumer advocate Clark Howard for a brief description of Glyde.com below. Please keep in mind the new website Glyde.com is in beta testing. Proceed cautiously with use of any new website. Click anywhere in this first paragraph to read complete descriptive article about Glyde.com published this date, November 17, 2009 in the New York Times.
Get ready for eBay for dummies, courtesy of a new e-commerce site called Glyde. com
Launched by a former eBay insider, Glyde promises to take all the hassle out of buying and selling online. Sellers can list an item — a CD, DVD or video game, for example — by typing in its title and making a notation about the condition. Glyde then suggests a market value, which can be changed anyway you see fit.
If there’s an interested buyer, Glyde will mail you a pre-addressed, pre-stamped bubble-wrapped mailer and you simply drop your item in the mail within 24 hours. You can then receive a check in the mail from Glyde once the buyer is happy.
The service takes 10 percent for facilitating a transaction. The seller is also responsible for an additional $1.25 for the price of the mailer.
Think of Glyde as NetFlix meets eBay. It takes the complexity out of the whole process. “We want the middle-aged Midwestern soccer mom to easily be able to buy and sell her stuff,” Glyde creator Simon Rothman tells The New York Times “It’s a pretty straightforward ambition.”
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