There's a reason a lot of us would rather take a few trips to the dumpster or the end of the driveway in order to get rid of our stuff--sometimes selling it online can be a hassle. But if you knew that you were also encouraging a green lifestyle by participating in a consignment system, would you put in a bit of extra effort? Gazelle, a site that lets you resell your electronics, aims to simplify the classifieds system by creating an environment that doesn't require person-to-person sales.
Instead of just throwing away your electronics, you can resell them and earn some cash, in turn recycling by allowing someone else to reuse your items. Gazelle actually buys your items, and acts something like a pawn shop for your electronic gadgets. The service includes an online calculator which will estimate the value of your products based on the information you provide. For those items that no longer have market value, they can merely be recycled instead of resold.
Part of Second Rotation Inc., Gazelle features a few new upgrades that will hopefully make the overall process of selling and recycling electronic items simpler. New navigation capabilities have been layered into the Gazelle site so users can easily find the items they'd like to sell and begin the process from there. The estimate calculator has also been improved, displaying the value of items over time. Now you'll be able to better determine when an optimal time to sell your used products will be. The Gazelle upgrades also feature more Web 2.0 aspects, which merely introduce more transparency into the selling process, giving users more control by offering more insight to the data it collects for the purpose of determining things like product value, etc.
Whether you'd like to become more active in the reuse and recycle process, or you'd just like to offload your stuff for a fixed price, Web-based consignment service, Gazelle is hoping to lure you in one way or another. Through its partnerships with other companies and electronic goods stores, Gazelle turns a profit from the gadgets and items you sold for cash, but its upgrades really seek to better utilize its existing Web presence for the purpose of gaining a broader user base through simplified mechanisms.
