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The online marketplace is extremely diverse and serves as everything from an online presence for brick and mortar retailers to food delivery service to the purchase of computer repair services such as RESCUECOM offers and almost any other type of transaction imaginable.  One service that has been popular since nearly the very beginning of the Internet’s popularity for personal use has been online resale.  Beyond buying from major retailers or online outlets, people have been buying and selling used goods of their own on such popular sites as Craigslist.  These sites allow anyone to purchase or sell anything within reason, and now a startup called Tradesy wants to bring this model to high-end goods and fashion accessories.  Until recently, there has been little focus on the resale of such goods specifically.  Tradesy gives users a place to find things very few people on sites like Craigslist would ever offer, complete with safeguards to ensure the quality of said goods that others do not offer. Read more »

Finding affordable clothing that still maintains a strong sense of someone’s personal style and looks great is not as easy as most people would imagine.  Many who have a particular sense of style often have to sacrifice those preferences due to financial setbacks or issues of availability.  Cool person in technology Katrina Lake wants to make finding one’s personal style and being able to flaunt it as simple as becoming a member of a subscription service.  Lake’s company Stitch Fix provides what is, essentially, personal fashion consulting by subscription.  Users pay Stitch Fix a monthly fee of twenty dollars and receive a box of five clothing items to try on for themselves every thirty days.  Customers decide what items to send back and which to keep.  They only pay for the items they decide to hold onto and simply return what they don’t want. Read more »

Customization is a theme that comes up over and over again when reading about new tech startups.  Whether it’s the ability to change the look of a mobile phone or modify a service exactly to a customer’s liking, many companies are appealing to customers’ wishes to make whatever they buy uniquely them.  Now this is true even for what people wear thanks to cool product Bow & Drape.  Read more »

It is common for people to have an experience where they remember an item of clothing by its color or pattern, but cannot remember the brand or the store where they purchased it.  ASAP54 is a cool product that solves this conundrum by letting you search through fashion websites and online clothing stores by simply uploading a picture.  If an ASAP54 user wants to find a piece of clothing they see someone wearing, they can just snap a picture, upload it to the app and ASAP54 does all the work.  The app recognizes the image and scours the Internet trying to find visual matches for the item you photographed.  The app provides users with all the matches that it can find, and then lets the user filter further by looking for specific brands, types of clothing, and colors within their results.  Users who have difficulty operating the search filters can always call iPhone support for help navigating the app. Read more »