Systems and methods for a website application for the purpose of trading, bartering, swapping, or exchanging personal property through a social networking environment
A system is provided for facilitating a personal property trading system and social networking environment that allows users to interact and create dialogue and socialize in relation to possible trades of personal property or services. This application will allow users who are willing to trade an item, service or favor to obtain similar wants or needs. This form of haggling and the feeling of success are proven to be mentally stimulating, proving another benefit for users. Users will be able to comment and haggle, as well as suggest other users that they believe may have a match on their ‘TRADING ITEMS’ and ‘STUFF I WANT’ lists. The system will promote environmentally conscious trading by bringing unwanted items back to use.
1. A personal property trading system, comprising:
a non-transitory computer readable storage medium,
one or more processors configured to interact with the computer-readable storage medium;
one or more software modules comprising instructions in the form of code stored on the storage medium and executing in the processor, the one or more software modules including:
a main page module executing in the processor and configuring the processor to generate a user page that displays a first user's personal property that is available for trading, wherein the processor is configured to provide the user page over a network for display on a display of one or more remote computing devices;
a comments module executing in the processor and configuring the processor to:
receive, with the processor using a communication interface over the network, from the first user and a plurality of other users of the system using respective computing devices, comments including:
messages concerning interactive negotiations and direct social interactions between the first user and each of the plurality of other users,
responsive messages from one or more of the first user and the plurality of other users in response to the messages,
generate, with the processor on the user page, a comments section including a live comment feed in association with the user's personal property displayed on the user page,
display, with the processor on the user page in the live comment feed, the received comments including messages concerning interactive negotiations and social interactions between the first user and each of the plurality of other users of the system and the responsive messages,
updating the live comment feed in real-time in response to comments received from the first user and the plurality of other uses through the interface;
a rating module executing in the processor and configuring the processor to:
receive from users using respective computing devices, reports concerning interactions with other users including non-compliant use of the system, wherein non-compliant use includes offering one or more of: direct sale of property and direct purchase of property;
implement, based on the reports, a rating system that scores users based on the reports and assists with the control of non-compliant users;
a blocking module executing in the processor and configuring the processor to, based on the rating, prevent non-compliant use of the system.