27/06/2016
*Hello admin, if this post is spammy, feel free to remove it, I’m unsure if this post breaks the rules of this group, but I think it can be helpful to people in this group*
Hello, my name is Tony Antonio Choi, I own FlowerGiftKorea, MarketinginKorea, and some other businesses. I noticed a lot of people getting cheated out of money when buying things off “people” in Korea from facebook groups. This is bad for everyone because it will cause people to buy and sell less of their things. So, I was thinking if it were possible to buy and sell things in Korea safely. And it is.
Escrow is a service that acts like a bank that holds on to a payment until the transaction is made. That way the buyer is protected from potential scams. The seller will have to be patient to receive the money, but it will most definitely increase the amount of buyers. I used one of these services when ordering USB’s from China and it really eased my mind when making the transaction.
YouSellKorea.com is like an Escrow and allows for a safe way to buy and sell items and services in Korea. It’s a community of small businesses, independent sellers of goods and services, especially handmade goods, and used devices.
If you want to buy something from someone in Korea who lives really far away, get him or her to sell it to you through YouSellKorea and have it delivered. YouSellKorea sellers can’t receive the money for a whole month. That should give you more than enough time to make sure that you have received what you paid for.
In other words, YouSellKorea is just like ebay/etsy/odesk/fiverr all rolled into one and YouSellKorea holds on to the payment for a period of time.
YouSellKorea is hoping to give the buyers more trust, as well as provide a place where people can go to buy from people in Korea and support small businesses in Korea.
You can also link to your own website and social media on YouSellKorea and continue to sell from your own sites. I am going to feature the first 12 merchants on the front page until January 2017 as a show of thanks (You need to create a shop with at least one product to be shown on the front page, which is FREE to do so). This is a new initiative, so we only have a few shops signed up so far. Check them out!
Wouldn't it be great if everyone in Korea knew exactly where to go to buy handmade anything? Or services and goods provided by other foreigners in Korea? Especially those with small businesses?
Also, you can encourage people to buy off of your own website or personally from you, so YouSellKorea purchases will be for those who may want to play it safe. So, you can link to your products or other websites and even your social media. YouSellKorea does not stop you from selling from your own website and actually encourages it.
If you are interested in joining YouSellKorea, which is truly in its infancy stage (and open to suggestions), please visit http://yousellkorea.com/register and register. We use paypal for all transactions and you just need an email and some product images to get started. You don’t even need your own website.
Once we get enough of the English speaking community interested and a part of the YouSellKorea community, my team and I will hit up actual Koreans to buy and sell from the website as well.
I really want to find a way for people in Korea to buy and sell from each other and support small businesses. My end goal is to actually get Koreans buying from foreigners and vice versa via YouSellKorea. There are so many naver bloggers selling handmade things and usually, these are the same type of people that buy handmade things.
Selling things online is a great way to make a living (and some extra cash) and I hope that YouSellKorea can be a platform that helps launch us small business owners create a living that we can truly enjoy.
Thank you for taking time to read this long message. I truly believe it's time that more of the expat community in Korea had the opportunity to create their own small businesses and make money doing what they actually love.
