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Friends:

This announcement has been months in the making, but we're finally ready to release our new commerce platform: Tool Trader.

After years of trying to help people use eBay and other sites to find vintage tools, we just gave up and built our own! Tool Trader is the new place to buy and sell woodworking tools. It's got all the features of a big commerce platform, but with the feel of a small community. It's also got innovative social media features like live video and discussion forums.

We think Tool Trader is going to be the place for serious artisans to buy and sell tools, and today we're opening the site to Patrons only for a special preview. All the details are in the video, but you can join right now and get automatically approved for a seller account in the next few days.

Just go to www.tooltrader.net and click Join Marketplace. And early next week, you'll get your seller account without doing anything else.

We can't wait to see the things people do in this new space.

We hope you love it!

--Rex

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Previews only

Introducing Tool Trader: The Commerce Platform for Woodworkers

http://www.tooltrader.net Click "Join Marketplace" Welcome to the future of buying and selling tools!

Comments

Tsani Rósenov Sábev

These are very exciting news! Here's hoping tooltrader.net is a resounding success!

Dean Wight

Wow! I can’t imagine how much effort it took to create this, Rex. I’ll be watching with interest and hoping TT is a wild success.

Borjan Tchakaloff

Interesting idea. Patrons beware, no Europe available (for now?)!

Borjan Tchakaloff

Which is honestly a shame given it's nigh impossible to find the same tools here. (Different heritage, different pieces of gear.)

Dave West

Great to see a hive mind idea come to life. Thanks for creating this rex. Kind of ironic this drops today when I'll be making my 1st trip to liberty tool company tomorrow. Really looking forward to both.

Graham Hypher

Yeah Rex, I’ve heard about guys like you, you come across like a nice guy just trying to help people, like anyone actually sells tools! Oh well, I needed a bigger house anyway. Great idea!

Bruce McDonald

I click on the link and get a message saying it's not available. Here are a couple of thoughts.... I am at my public library using their WiFi, maybe there is a problem there. I work for a public school district that restricts what I can see - but when I run into that I get a BIG RED screen saying, YOU CAN'T GO THERE! then I can ask for permission. I don't see that. And finally, maybe there's a problem with ToolTrader.net. I hope this helps.

Brendan Langord

Thank you so much for this. This is exactly what I have been looking for. I am a hobby tool collector and restorer (and amateur woodworker for fun) and yesterday I was thinking to myself I have so many tools that I have collected and restored, or needs to be restored, and I need to get rid of some. I've bought and sold on eBay before, but it just isn't what I like. I'm looking forward to using this platform to share what I have, and find things that I am looking for.

Wil Cooley

But Rex, without clueless yard-sale resellers, how will we get preposterously good deals?

A

Alas, I tried to sign up but just see "Something went wrong. Please try again".

A

But super excited for when this works!

Jennessa Lynam

Hell yeah! I'm super excited about this and hope I'll be able to find something that I've been wanting to buy at a decent price for a long time now. Stanley no.7 smooth sole not corrugated 😉

John Shufelt

Great idea. Some of us outside N. America may have questions about shipping, etc., but a test run like this may help sort that out. Cool project, Rex!

Richard C von Brecht

This is fantastic, will we get a chance to bid on that legendary hoard of planes that you kept hidden under your stairs?

Sean McGown

On eBay, the worst part is that they've recently changed their search function for the worse. It's turned from exact match first to broad match and you get way more irrelevant results.

Fred Wolsey

I appreciate the down-to-earth prices. This looks great. Could I suggest a "I need a ..." forum? If a member says "I need a No.7" another member may decide "I have an extra No.7." Just a thought.

Steve

love the idea! not going to be great for my wallet, but such is life :)

Rex Krueger

Well, with no marketplace fees until the end of November, it's going to be more affordable, at least.

Rex Krueger

I think we're going to avoid that problem by just having a smaller pool of sellers and merchandise. I know smaller sounds like it's less good, but a tighter community means more relevant results.

Rex Krueger

I'll probably let a few of those go...but i mostly keep them for videos and to get ideas for Compass Rose Products.

Rex Krueger

If you look at the handful of tools that are up there now, you'll see some pretty preposterous deals.

Rex Krueger

Man, you're EXACLTY who we're hoping to get as a seller. You can get those tools into the hands of people who need them and you can make a little dough for yourself.

Rex Krueger

We're working hard to bring this to EU/UK, but the hold-up isn't on our end. We're waiting for the relevant regulators to sign off and we don't have a lot of leverage to speed that up.

Rex Krueger

Well, having a partner helped a lot. We did a lot of customizing. Thanks for your enthusiasm!

A

Just tried again and was able to sign up. Thanks, Rex!

Bradley Barth

Cool! Looking forward to see how this goes. Personally I have a bench to build and tools to restore first!

TeddyB!!

Now I'm over-saturated. Between Patreon, WW For Humans forum, Compass Rose, and now Tool Trader my question is where are you going to spend your time, Rex? No offense but while your marketing expands, for me your content is getting less relevant. I do understand the niche and wish you a lot of success while I keep an eye on your content here.

Gerald Eddy

I did have a question about the EU problem. Is it just in the shipping cost? For example, my PayPal funds cone from a stateside bank so there is no exchange rate. Is it possibly due to tariff’s? Thanks for any info someone can offer.