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Guides September 3, 2026 1 min read

Your first thirty days as a partner nonprofit

Signing up takes minutes. What you do in the four weeks after decides whether anything comes of it, and most of that is telling people who already like you. Your registration number is checked agai…

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Guides September 3, 2026 1 min

We built an AI that says "I don't know"

Point a camera at something and the listing writes itself. That's the easy part and everybody has it. The hard part is the moment the model doesn't actually know what it's looking at. It came back…

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Updates September 3, 2026 1 min

What our 15% actually pays for

We take 15% of a sale. The card takes about another three. Here's where it goes, because a fee nobody will itemise is a fee people are right to resent. You pay on a Tuesday and the thing changes ha…

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Stories September 3, 2026 1 min

The donation bin is the worst deal in charity

You clear out the garage, load the car, drive it all to a donation bin, and feel good about it. You should. The alternative for most of that stuff is a landfill. But follow one bike out of the back…

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Guides September 3, 2026 1 min

How to meet a stranger to hand over a chair

What people worry about with selling locally usually isn't the money. It's the part where somebody they've never met comes to the house. You choose how you hand over when you list: porch pickup, an…

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Updates September 3, 2026 1 min

How a charity gets verified in seconds instead of two weeks

The usual way to prove a charity is a charity is to ask for a determination letter and have somebody read it. That's a week of waiting on both sides and it proves less than you'd think. Every regis…

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Guides September 3, 2026 1 min

Escrow, in plain words, for anyone who has been burned before

Everybody who has sold something to a stranger online has had the same two thoughts. The seller: what if I hand it over and the payment vanishes. The buyer: what if I pay and nobody turns up. Both…

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Stories April 12, 2026 1 min

The quietest fundraiser your nonprofit has ever run

Every neighborhood has a basement. Every basement has a shelf full of "I'll get to it eventually." And every shelf is a fundraising opportunity your nonprofit hasn't been able to tap — because the…

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Guides April 5, 2026 1 min

Five photos that turn 'maybe later' into a same-day sale

The AI writes a strong listing. The photos still close the deal. We've narrowed the shot list down to five frames that consistently turn browsers into buyers. Every one of them can be shot from a p…

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Updates March 28, 2026 1 min

Spring 2026 update — Campaign in a Box, batch listing, more

Here's what we shipped this season, and what we learned along the way. Listings with three or more photos sell far faster than single-photo ones. The nonprofits that get the most out of Campaign in…

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