I think what would complete this is if you could leave items in the bag that you sell on Amazon Marketplace, and Amazon would pick them up and deliver them to the buyer.
Then you'd potentially have a packaging-less, production-free, nearly energy-ideal system for moving around used goods.
Imagine instead of having a tag sale, you'd just scan everything you want to get rid of into Amazon, and they'd come pick things up as they find new homes for them.
Add in automatic market-based pricing, and you basically have near perfect liquidity for used goods. That'd be radical.
The step after that is just to allow people to distribute home-produced goods. Harvest tomatoes from your back yard on ToteDay, drop them into Amazon mini-totes, and have them delivered, at market prices, to people in your area.
It'd be like the economics of the App Store applied to all goods.
You can already ship all of your Marketplace items to Amazon and they'll sit in their warehouses and be packaged and shipped by Amazon for you, for a fee of course.
> Harvest tomatoes from your back yard on ToteDay, drop them into Amazon mini-totes, and have them delivered, at market prices, to people in your area.
Then you run the risk of people selling Tomacco[1].
I think what would complete this is if you could leave items in the bag that you sell on Amazon Marketplace, and Amazon would pick them up and deliver them to the buyer.
Then you'd potentially have a packaging-less, production-free, nearly energy-ideal system for moving around used goods.
Imagine instead of having a tag sale, you'd just scan everything you want to get rid of into Amazon, and they'd come pick things up as they find new homes for them.
Add in automatic market-based pricing, and you basically have near perfect liquidity for used goods. That'd be radical.
The step after that is just to allow people to distribute home-produced goods. Harvest tomatoes from your back yard on ToteDay, drop them into Amazon mini-totes, and have them delivered, at market prices, to people in your area.
It'd be like the economics of the App Store applied to all goods.
Shit, I'm going to go apply for a job at Amazon.