The real flow, four steps, each one validated before you move to the next: what you're selling, how you're pricing or arranging pickup, what it looks like, and where it actually is.
Name your listing, choose a category, select condition (processed, unprocessed, contaminated, or mixed), and pick a listing type: Fixed Price, Auction, or Quick Sale. An AI Auto-fill button can draft your description from the name and category, which you then review and edit.
For Fixed Price and Auction listings, set a price per unit, weight, and (for auctions) a minimum reserve and bid increment. For Quick Sale, this step is replaced with pickup details instead, no pricing decisions required.
Upload clear images of the actual material. Listings with real, specific photos are taken more seriously by buyers than generic stock-style images, and photo quality is part of what GPS-verified listings are built around.
Confirm where the material actually is, the detail that makes pickup logistics and buyer distance calculations possible. This is also where the platform's location verification for a listing gets set.
Step one asks you to pick between Fixed Price, Auction, and Quick Sale, and that single choice changes what step two looks like entirely. Fixed Price is straightforward, you set a number, a buyer either accepts it or negotiates. Auction lets competitive bidding set the price, with an optional reserve so it only sells if bidding clears a minimum you're comfortable with. Quick Sale skips pricing entirely, list with photos and pickup details, and it's handled without you setting or defending a number at all.
Picking the right one before you start saves genuine time, an auction listing you actually wanted priced fixed means redoing step two from scratch. See fixed price vs. auction vs. Wanted Board for the full decision framework before you begin.
The form asks for more than a classifieds post would, condition specifics, exact location, real photos, because buyers making a genuine purchasing decision need real detail to bid or offer accurately, not a vague "scrap for sale" post they'd have to message and ask about. Every field that feels like extra effort at listing time is solving a specific problem on the buyer's end, fewer wasted messages, fewer mismatched expectations at pickup.
That extra detail also directly shortens your own time to sale. A listing a buyer can assess fully from the page itself gets a decision faster than one requiring several rounds of clarifying questions before anyone's willing to commit, the five extra minutes spent filling in condition and location precisely at listing time usually saves considerably more than that in back-and-forth afterward. See why our listing form asks for more for the field-by-field reasoning.
Four: product details, pricing or pickup, photos, and location. Each step validates before you can move to the next, so you can't accidentally publish an incomplete listing.
You choose the listing type, Fixed Price, Auction, or Quick Sale, in step one, and that choice determines what step two actually asks for. Picking wrong isn't permanent, but knowing the difference before you start makes the flow faster. See fixed price vs. auction vs. Wanted Board for the full comparison.
Four real options: processed (cut, baled, or shredded), unprocessed (bulk, unsorted, as-is), contaminated (contains mixed materials), or mixed (varied grades or unknown). Selecting accurately here affects how seriously buyers assess the listing, and mismatches between claimed and actual condition are a common source of post-sale disputes.
Yes, that's the intended workflow. AI Auto-fill drafts a description from your product name and category, then you edit it before publishing, adding specific grade details, quantities, or anything the auto-generated draft doesn't capture precisely enough.
Because vague listings get vague offers, and buyers making a real purchasing decision need real specifics, weight, condition, exact location, to bid or offer accurately. See why our listing form asks for more for the fuller reasoning behind each field.
A reasonably accurate estimate is enough to begin, a bathroom scale for smaller loads, a considered estimate against known reference weights for larger ones. Precision helps get taken seriously, but you're not blocked from listing without a certified weighbridge reading.
Your listing goes through GPS verification before it's visible to buyers, confirming the material, quantity, and location are genuinely as described, rather than publishing instantly and unchecked the moment you click submit.
Yes, the flow supports saving a draft at step one before you've completed every field, useful if you need to check a weight or grab better photos before finishing the rest.
Under-describing the material to save time, a vague name and a generic photo instead of the specific grade, condition, and clear images buyers actually need to bid confidently. It shortens the listing process by a few minutes and lengthens the negotiation process considerably, since buyers end up messaging to ask what the listing should have already told them.
No, and it's worth checking first rather than guessing. A live reference price takes seconds to check and directly informs what number to actually put in step two, whether you're setting a fixed price or a sensible auction reserve.
There's no fixed platform-wide minimum for creating a listing itself, though very small quantities may attract less buyer interest simply because the transaction isn't worth the logistics for a buyer at scale. Combining smaller amounts into one listing where practical generally performs better than several tiny separate ones.
Four steps, each validated before the next, from product details to location.
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