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Listing your first thing

A photograph, a price, and what happens in between.

Start with a name and a place

Making a sale takes a few taps: what kind it is, where it is, how people get their things, and which days you are open. You do not have to think up a name. If you leave it, we name it after your street.

You can do all of this before you photograph anything. The photographs can wait until you are standing next to the thing.

Photographing

Point your phone at one thing and take a picture. A title, a description and a category are written for you in a few seconds, and you can change any of them.

If the photograph is unclear, you are told so rather than given a confident guess. A listing that describes the wrong object is worse than no listing.

There are two ways to photograph. One after another is for a boxful of things: a shot each, keep walking. One thing, several angles is for the piece that will actually sell, so the maker’s mark on the back gets read before the description is written.

Publishing

Publishing the sale and publishing the things in it are two separate acts. Your sale can go on the map with nothing listed on it, and your drafted items stay private until you publish them.

That is deliberate: photographing forty things over a week should not put half-finished listings in front of buyers.

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