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Notes from the people making Metzee, and from the sellers on it.
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Wedding season: what sells, and when to have it ready
Sarees, jewellery and gifting, and the lead times that decide whether you catch the season or miss it.
Buying directly from the person who made it
How to tell, what to ask, and what is reasonable to expect from one person rather than a shop.
Selling as a collective or a self-help group
One store, several people, one bank account. How the roles map onto a group, and who has to hold the money.
Moving from cash sales to recorded ones
What changes when every sale leaves a trace, why that is mostly in the seller’s favour, and the one part that is genuinely harder.
Selling to another state
What changes practically — almost nothing — and where the tax question starts, which is the part to take to an accountant.
Designing for the phone most people actually have
A mid-range Android on patchy data, not a laptop on fibre. That assumption decided more of this product than any feature did.
Why twelve languages is a constraint, not a feature
What it forces on every screen — and the quiet filter an English-only marketplace applies to who gets to sell.
Pricing is a conversation, not a decision
A starting price is something you say to the room. This is what each one says, and how the room answers.
The arithmetic of a regular buyer
One person who comes back is worth more than a dozen who came once, and the thing that produces one is duller than it sounds.
Why packing is most of the experience
Everything between winning and opening belongs to the seller, and it is the part buyers remember.
Why handmade costs more, and what you are paying for
The arithmetic of hours, materials and the ones that failed. Written so the factory price stops being the comparison.
The case for buying from one person
What is actually lost when everything comes from a warehouse. Without pretending the warehouse has no advantages.
The economics of selling live
Time per item is the whole calculation. It makes some stock obviously worth a show and quietly ruins the margin on the rest.
What a marketplace owes the people on it
Where we step in, where we deliberately do not, and why that line sits where it does. Argued rather than asserted.
Heat and your stock
Vinyl, cards, candles, chocolate, anything with glue. A short list of what a hot month does and what to do first.
Selling through the monsoon
What not to post, what to tell buyers before they order, and the months when collection is the better offer.
How Metzee works in twelve languages
Eleven Indian languages and English, including the parts that are genuinely hard and the one that is still not right.
What happens to money inside Metzee
Holds, claims, and why a refund can only happen once. Including the bug that taught us to do it this way.
What actually happens during a live show
The video path, how a bid reaches every screen in the same order, and why the clock belongs to the server.
Moving your shop to Metzee
What to bring, what to rebuild, and how to bring your buyers rather than starting from nobody.
Selling in more than one place at once
The real problem is not effort. It is one object listed twice, sold twice, and refunded once.
Metzee compared with a weekend market stall
Reach, weather, and the conversation you lose. For makers who already stand behind a table.
Metzee compared with an auction house
Reach, speed and what it costs to try. And the things a room full of people still does better.
Metzee compared with selling in a WhatsApp group
A group does trust and immediacy better than any platform. What it cannot do is hold the money, keep the record, or settle an argument.
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