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OfferUp
OfferUp is an online mobile-first consumer-to-consumer marketplace with an emphasis on in-person transactions. It was founded as a competitor to Craigslist.
OfferUp Merges With letgo, Combines Marketplace Apps
August 31, 2020
Recommerce marketplace OfferUp has integrated with similar app letgo and will combine its app with the letgo app for a new marketplace promising an increased amount of deals and more access ...COVID Creates A Seller’s Market In reCommerce
May 13, 2020
Whether it’s called “certified pre-owned” or just plain “used,” reCommerce has never been hotter. Online marketplaces are well-situated for a COVID-triggered digital shift, personified by millions of the newly unemployed ...Toronto To Launch 'Digital Main Street' To Help SMBs Get Online
May 12, 2020
In Toronto, a new service called DMS ShopHERE, powered by the Schulich School of Business, aims to help small companies and artists move their businesses online.
The initiative will provide small to ...NY, Mass Plan Phased Reopenings As Robots, Recommerce Show Promise
May 12, 2020
As they gear up to restart their economies amid the pandemic, states from New York to Massachusetts are planning phased reopenings.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that three regions of ...Stay-At-Home Orders Great News For Home Goods Sellers Like Wayfair
May 12, 2020
Roman philosopher Gaius Plinius Secundus, better known as Pliny the Elder, famously said “Home is where the heart is” somewhere around the year 45 AD — thus coining an aphorism ...OfferUp CEO: Reinventing Commerce One Local Seller At A Time
May 11, 2020
Recommerce has been on the rise for the better part of a decade now, and it seems countless marketplaces have sprung up to offer consumers a host of inroads to ...OfferUp, letgo To Merge As Biz Nets $120M In VC Funds
March 25, 2020
OfferUp has been winning recently, closing out a $120 million funding round and acquiring its top competitor, letgo, according to a blog post on the company’s website.
The funding round ended ...Why Online Retail Fraud Is On the Rise
November 4, 2019
Amazon has struggled with preventing counterfeit goods from infiltrating its marketplace. In the company’s ongoing efforts to prevent fraud on its site, Amazon announced a new program, Intellectual Property Accelerator, last month ...Uber Money, Alexa Bill Payments And Super Apps Top This Week's News
November 1, 2019
It’s the end of the workweek and the beginning of a new month. And the PYMNTS Weekender is here to make sure you didn’t miss anything — and that you ...Building A More Trustworthy eCommerce Marketplace
October 31, 2019
The thrill of the hunt — and chance to snag a good deal — is what drives millennials to local marketplaces. In this month’s Digital Fraud Tracker, Nathan Garnett, general ...Top News In Payments: Uber, Lyft, DoorDash Back Initiative To Fight Gig Worker Law; Adobe Predicts Holiday Sales To Reach $143.7B
October 30, 2019
In today’s payments news, Uber, Lyft and DoorDash are backing a ballot initiative to exempt themselves from California’s landmark law that re-classifies gig workers as employees. Also, a study by Adobe Analytics found that the upcoming holiday shopping season is expected ...OfferUp’s General Counsel On Keeping Marketplace Shoppers Safe From Scammers
October 30, 2019
Online tools are saving customers time on acquiring goods and services. Unfortunately, these tools are also saving time for fraudsters, who are seeking to acquire those customers’ funds. Shoppers can ...What is OfferUp?
July 18, 2019
OfferUp is a local mobile marketplace competing with businesses like eBay, Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace.
The firm received $130 million in financing in 2016, taking the complete financing of the business ...Why Goodwill Is Tapping Into Digital Marketplaces
June 12, 2019
To bring their merchandise in front of millions of shoppers through eCommerce, several Goodwill regions are teaming with mobile marketplace OfferUp. More than 100 Goodwill store locations ranging from New ...How OfferUp Works To Safeguard Both Buyers And Sellers
December 3, 2018
Digital marketplaces have become beloved by buyers and sellers — and fraudsters. Nick Huzar, CEO of OfferUp, says most current authentication standards are either too lax — sacrificing security for ...OfferUp CEO On Making Marketplace Authentication Smarter
November 30, 2018
The world is constantly getting faster. As a result, the speed of commerce and payments is coming closer to real time. This increased focus on speed is creating a wide ...Play Ball: Secondhand Sports Gear Has Its Own Marketplace Now
May 4, 2018
Buying secondhand sports gear isn’t as easy as it sounds. Neither is selling the kids’ old hockey skates or baseball bats. It may seem like perfect material for eBay, Craigslist, ...Offer Up Rolls Out Shipping Option
May 1, 2018
Enabling its sellers to reach buyers beyond their neighborhoods, mobile marketplace offer up is now allowing sellers to offer items to people throughout the U.S. The expansion could allow sellers ...OfferUp Is Pushing Trust, But Will Users Buy In Light Of Incidents?
December 8, 2017
OfferUp: the mobile app that connects local buyers and sellers, helping regular people get rid of their extra belongings.
It’s also the mobile app that, unfortunately, can lead would-be buyers straight ...OfferUp And Building A Better Goods Swap
August 31, 2017
Everyone has problems, and an awful lot of people are good at solving them. What separates entrepreneurs from the rest, though, is often their desire to solve a problem not ...Facebook's Black Marketplace Glitch
October 5, 2016 Facebook this week had it’s own version of “Cyber Monday.” Introducing the Facebook Marketplace on the mobile app in the morning, by sundown, the company was issuing apologies. Marketplace was ...OfferUp Consumer Internet Startup May Be The Latest Unicorn
October 23, 2015 Consider it the invisible unicorn. Despite having been around for four years, the online marketplace startup OfferUp is reportedly on the verge of reaching unicorn status — reaching a valuation of ...