New FIRST Website Idea?

[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