May 1, 2009 Posted by BoxCycle

New Screencasts Show How to Buy and Sell Boxes

We’ve added videos to the BoxCycle front page to help potential buyers and sellers understand the service.  Videos go through the purchase and selling process so customers can see how everything works in advance.   These screencasts also address common questions and misunderstandings we’ve seen so far. You can also find and share these videos through the BoxCycle YouTube channel.  We used the... read more

Apr 15, 2009 Posted by BoxCycle

Set Custom Box Prices to Give Required Profit

BoxCycle has added an easy way to set box prices to meet seller’s specific profit requirements.  The Edit Box screen now offers a Custom Profit pricing option along with Automatic and Custom Price options. The seller simply enters the profit they need to earn to make selling the box worthwhile and BoxCycle will calculate the appropriate buyer price taking into account BoxCycle commission.   The... read more

Apr 5, 2009 Posted by BoxCycle

Used Boxes Wanted – Cheap Boxes on Regular Basis

BoxCycle launched with the focus of helping businesses and individuals with more or less regular supply of used boxes to connect with people who need boxes on occasion.  A typical example would be a retail store with boxes and a person looking for moving boxes. There is a related, but very different scenario that is quite common.  To our knowledge it is also completely unserved: businesses with regular... read more

Mar 17, 2009 Posted by BoxCycle

Lots of New Features

Those of you who care to look at the little version number at the bottom of BoxCycle probably noticed that we’ve been making frequent updates recently. As we gain more experience with buyers and sellers we incorporate this new knowledge into BoxCycle.  Most changes are fairly minor.  However,  we’ve also added some cool new features.  Some of these deserve a more fuller treatment, but for now... read more

Mar 10, 2009 Posted by BoxCycle

Finally, You Can Edit Box Properties Yourself

  As you know from previous posts we’ve added a number of custom box properties to allow you, the seller, to more accurately describe and price your boxes.  However, you had to contact us to make the changes for you; we didn’t have an interface to let users access these properties directly.  Until now.   The Inventory tab in My Account has been changed significantly to allow displaying multiple boxes of... read more