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Cozybug.com – An online flea market
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Didn’t you always love to browse through the antique furniture pieces at your local flea market? Of course, these days, who has time to go out and look around at old furniture like that? Well, if you like buying used furniture but you also like to shop online, CozyBug.com is a site that provides a marketplace for consumers like you. The site tries to solve the problem of high shipping costs, and the potential hazards of buying, selling and shipping large, heavy and hard to ship items over long distances via the internet. The idea is that the purchases are made between small distances so that the transactions are safe and don’t involve shipping.

The site allows sellers to post items that might normally be found at flea markets or garage sales. Then they allow moving and delivery services to post ads so that the buyer can arrange right on the site for the item to arrive at his home. Frequent local sellers can create “store fronts” where they display their items.

One nice thing about Cozybug.com is that it brings small business and local sellers together using many little virtual web store fronts, which provides a space for local business to have a localized web presence in their local area.

Like Ebay, Cozybug charges a few bucks for sellers to post ads, and a few more bucks to create store fronts. Sellers get up to four image uploads per listing.

In their own words: “Cozybug.com was specifically created to address the challenges produced in the online sale and purchase of items that are large, heavy, expensive and difficult to ship over long distances such as furniture, appliances and vehicles; it is also ideal for shoppers that prefer to examine an item in person locally in addition to viewing it online. In addition, we focus on items that one would find at your local Flea Markets or Garage Sales. For instance, one usually would not find personals or job wanted ads at a Flea Market or Garage Sale, therefore we do not offer those services. However, we offer Advertisement and Store fronts for moving and truck/van rentals services because it is in line with our objective of facilitating the buying and selling of hard to ship items locally.”

Why it might be a killer:
This is a neat idea because it is specific to a certain market and it’s easy enough that even people who normally shy away from internet purchases will be inclined to check it out. It’s a cool twist to use something global (the internet) to make local transactions, and it could catch on pretty quickly.

Some questions:
Would it be possible that the site is not going to attract enough buyers and sellers to keep running? After all, the flea market items are few and far between, and it’s not the everyday buyer who specifically wants such an item.

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NEWS: News article from VOXUS written about CozyBug.com

eBay not enough? Here comes CozyBug
Wednesday, May 23 2007 | Puget Sound tech news | Permalink
Hard to believe that there's room in the online flea market business for another vendor other than the megalithic eBay, but Issaquah-based iCantu Technologies launched CozyBug earlier this month. It's differentiation is that it localizes online shopping to eliminate shipping charges – kind of a mashup of the "for sale" category on Craigslist within a more trusted setting. It'll be interesting to see how the company plans to get buyers and sellers to utilize this site – it'll be critical to its success.

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Need Sellers and Store Front owners

Hi, so far we are 2 weeks in to our Beta Launch and we are looking for people to post. REGISTERING ON COZYBUG.COM IS ALWAYS FREE. As a bonus to registering on CozyBug.com you will immediately recieve a credit reward of 10 CozyBucks to use when your ready to post a classified ad or create a store front. CozyBug.com is always free to browse and register to find that perfect gently used, antique or new hard to ship item locally.

CozyBugMOBILE coming soon.... --- CozyBugMOBILE will deliver the ability to, manage, update, edit you posts and IM, SMS text message buyers and sellers. Standby for this upcoming feature for CozyBug.com

Cozybug.com Beta Site goes Live. We need Users!

Cozybug.com Beta Site goes Live. We need Users!
March 8th, 2007

Browse CozyBug.com classifieds. FREE REGISTRATION. Register on CozyBug.com and recieve bonus credits of 10 CozyBucks to use to post classifieds and or create a store front. CozyBug.com is free to browse and find that perfect gently used, antique or hard to ship item locally

We are excited to provide storefront services to local “mom and pop” businesses such as antique and furniture consignment stores, which we hope will boost their foot traffic and eventually sales; in addition, customers seeking out special or inexpensive furniture or other household items can feel comfortable walking into a store as opposed to someone’s house, less obligated to buy. Another benefit to some customers, wary of going to someone’s house to view an item, may feel that a bricks and mortar store to be a safer atmosphere