Roopit's Voice

Roopit is a meeting point for us to buy & Sell amongst ourselves. And because no middle men or businesses are involved, Roopit ends up being a lot nicer.

Roopit is crafted to be simple & fast.

Buying

You are somewhere in Central Bangalore (Say Majestic) and want to buy a mobile. One way is to go to the nearest  electronics store and pick a new one. The other is to buy online. The third, is to check with Roopit. And there are a couple of ways to check with us.

• Visit www.roopit.com
• Click on the “Your product” Tab and choose Mobiles. You are now seeing all the mobiles up for sale in Bangalore.

• You obviously dont want to go to Anekal to buy a mobile. At the same time, you don’t really mind if the seller is in MG Road. So, lets narrow it down to the central Bangalore area by clicking on the “Find your locality” tab and selecting “Central Bangalore area”.
• Now you see all the mobiles close to your area. They are arranged chronologically. That is, the latest post is on the top. All of them are short descriptions so you can quickly scroll through.

• Even as you scroll, if you like something. Click on the “Want it” button and put it your phone number.

• Continue to browse and find four or five mobile phones you like.
• Once you are done, your will have all the SMSes, with the seller’s phone number and the content you saw on the website to help you re-call who is selling what.

The other way to reach out to Roopit is to call +91-9916-ROOPIT (That’s +91-9916-766748).

• Tell us that you are looking for a mobile phone in and around the majestic area.
• We will then send you a few SMSes with the seller’s phone numbers along with a short description of the mobiles they want to sell. This will help you pick the ones you like.

Selling

Unlike buying, Selling is a lot harder and unpredictable. Your current options are to use one of the existing classifieds website (such as craigslist.co.in) or post an ad in a print journal (like News papers or Free Ads). The other is to reach out to Roopit.

• Visit www.roopit.com

• Click on the “Sell Something” Button.

• Click on “what are you selling” drop down choose Mobiles.

• Click on “where are you selling” and choose your area approximately (Say South Bangalore). It is fine to be approximate. Buyers dont want to travel across the city, but they dont mind travelling from one locality to another.
• Write a short description (140 characters) of your mobile. There is an example there to help you write the sale notice.

• Put in your mobile number and click “create sale notice”.
• Your Sale notice will now appear in the front page, in South Bangalore page and in the Mobiles section.

• If this your first time, ensure that you send a blank message from the same phone number you used while posting. We require you to do this to ensure that this phone number is yours.
• You can now manage this sale notice from your phone. Details on marking the notice as sold, and, if for some reason, deleting will be sent your phone once you verify.
• You will also find a “delete” button for a little while in your notice as well. You can use it to delete it in case you have written something wrong and would like to change/edit the notice.

• So now, we have our job cut out to find a buyer for you.

Presenting to you: roopit.com

Happy Shopping.

Roopit is a meeting point for individuals like you and me to buy and sell things between the two of us.

Retail Shops and e-commerce stores are bent upon selling you a new item. Say a refrigerator, a book, an ipod. And they do a very good job at it. But often, most of us are upgrading when we are buying something new. It is likely that you already have a Television in working condition when you are buying a new Flat screen LED TV. There is nothing wrong with your existing TV. You simply want to upgrade to a newer technology for better quality & experience.

Now, These retail and e-commerce shops typically don’t tell you what to do with your old TV. Actually, Most of them don’t care. Some may have an exchange offer, but, for a rock bottom price. You know that your TV is worth much more but you will have to settle for their price. Other retailers might give you the contact of a second-hand broker/dealer and the story is not very different with them either. For example, I gave my fridge in working condition to a dealer for 1500 Rs.. I didn’t know what else to do.

So, these second hand dealers will usually break your TV down and re-furbish and sell it’s parts. Have you ever seen a decent electronics shop selling second hand TV anywhere? This is also the reason why they wont pay your TV for what it is worth. Because, they are not going to use it. They are going to break it down.

At Roopit, we believe there is someone out there who will be very happy to buy your TV, take it home, and actually watch something on it. And because he is going to use it, it is worth as much for him as it is for you. Roopit’s mission is to connect you with him in the fastest and safest way possible.

It seems, 99% of the things we bought six months ago are no longer in real use today ^[1]. So, all of us have a lot of things to give away all the time. We hope you use Roopit to sell your TV, to rent your house or to give away a book free to someone and to put that entire 99% of the things you don’t want, to good re-use.

Using Roopit is ridiculously simple. Read more here: http://blog.roopit.com/using-roopit

[1] : storyofstuff.com

We have a long list of people (and things) who were responsible for helping Roopit see the light of the day. It is only fitting that we mention each and every one them. Furthermore, one word describing our feeling.

• status.net – Indebted.
• Open source. Particularly, Ubuntu & the LAMP stack – Freedom
• prettyPhoto – Pretty.
• Camtasia -  Wonderful.
• Google Analytics, Getsatisfaction, Twitter, Facebook – Between You and Us.
• Eclipse – Survival.
• Jquery – Style.
• Geonames – Data
• Wordpress – Communication.

And now to the people.

• Gaurav Bushan – crafty
• Vaidehi – artist
• Noor from Vodafone Store. – “Out of the way” Helpful
• Pathanjali, Pap, Collins & Farex – Generous
• Folks at Flipkart. – Advisory.
• Tapas – Sport.
• Sameer Sisodia – Devil(’s advocate).
• Sharan from Mobme – Prompt.
• Ashish Solanki – Attention to detail.
• Swaroop C H – Makes sense.

And finally to the four people on whose shoulders Roopit rests.

• Rajeswari T S – Heart
• Anand Ganesan – Thought.
• Moxada Singh – Mind
• You – Soul.

Happy Shopping.