New FIRST Website Idea?

[Peyton Yeung]

I'm always up for more tshirts

[Zach O]

I'd be more interested in your site/service if you had posted on CD with a finished product.

How do you plan on handling transactions? Is it going through some third party service? How am I sure that my financial information is secure? Also, what happens when I send someone money for a t-shirt and I never receive my t-shirt? Who refunds me?

[lakstick]

Originally Posted by Zach O

I'd be more interested in your site/service if you had posted on CD with a finished product.

How do you plan on handling transactions? Is it going through some third party service? How am I sure that my financial information is secure? Also, what happens when I send someone money for a t-shirt and I never receive my t-shirt? Who refunds me?

Understood that a finished product would be most desirable, however as stated before, this idea was just thought up, and we wanted to know the response of the general FRC community before delving into production.

Financial transactions would be handled through PayPal, the easiest and trusted financial transfer service available.

The "third party" you mentioned would be us, simply creating a place in which a user may contact a team without the hassle of discovering email addresses or street addresses.

The website would work in a similar way as both Craigslist and Ebay, the purchasing ability as Craigslist, where users set the price as well as list the information about the item, but feature the return policy as Ebay (We want you to be happy with the product you are receiving.) If the wrong product is delivered (most likely from a user, not a verified team), you may report the user to us, and the user will be contacted. If the site grows enough, we may be able to work with the team of which you are attempting to purchase said shirt from to work out your problem.

I hope this answers some of your questions and concerns!

-Mak

[Starke]

Originally Posted by lakstick

The reason for this post comes down to this: What do you think?
-Would you use the site to purchase other team's shirts?
-Do you think your team would be willing to sell your shirts on this site?
-What other functionality would be needed before you used this website?

I think that what you have is a cool idea. It would be nice to have one place that we could/buy/sell/trade and FIRST related shirts. As you mentioned, it would almost be a Craigslist or Ebay for FIRST related products. There is already a Swap feature here on CD. I am wondering if it would work similar as what is already on this site or would need to be completely different.

Originally Posted by Zach O

I'd be more interested in your site/service if you had posted on CD with a finished product.

I am in agreement with Zach on this one. It is tough to talk about functionality, user interface, and overall design without seeing a final or draft product. When I launched FRC Designs, I asked for general feedback as well as overall design ideas (See here and here). Try putting together something for us to look at and try out so we can give you more in depth feedback.

Good idea! Take it to the next step.