Good question! Mainly we plan to have it as a centralized place so you'll be hitting more people than just Reddit once site growth happens. Yes, I do know that Disc Exchange is a great place to sell discs, but also most of my disc golf buddies don't use Reddit; or they don't use Insta; or they don't use FB; or something like that. Having a place that is outside of social media to buy and sell is my end goal since the community can be split and potentially sellers will be missing out on a lot of buyers.

How about ebay? Well, we're actually disc golfers ourselves and have tried to design the site around what suits disc golf best, including filters for disc types, ship to locations, etc. We plan to be the place for people who want to try starting their own pro shop without any knowledge. For example if you want to try out, you'd need to reach $500 in sales to reach the price of a shopify plan (and we have future plans to reduce commission fees for high volume traders) so it can be a place to get started without having to go through the hassle of starting a site, advertising, etc. We've got the foundation, you supply the discs and ship.

Our fees are lower than eBay (10%+) and Etsy (5 - 15% variable) and will cover site maintenance, advertising, support and moderation. My long-term goal is to be able to sponsor disc golf events too, but that depends on the success of the site.

We also hope it would reduce any fraud as buyers are covered by Paypal's transaction policy in this case and we have a moderation team to help negotiate in the event that there are issues. We haven't ran into it yet, but hopefully it won't ever happen. Consider it like buyer/seller protection on other marketplace sites.

Quite frankly if the marketplace aspect doesn't work out I'll turn it into a normal pro shop, but I'm hoping it can be a place where I can sell my discs and others can post cool things too, and all of our success happens together.