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delivery

How delivery is worked out

Each item carries its own delivery rules, the price is shown before you bid, and you pay for one parcel per show rather than one per item.

The Metzee team2 min read
selling

How to open a store on Metzee

Every step from the first tap to a store that can take money, and what each one is actually for.

The Metzee team2 min read
selling

How to sell on Metzee

What selling live actually involves — a camera, a table, an hour — and every step from opening a store to getting paid.

The Metzee team2 min read
buyer protection

How buyer protection works

Seven days from delivery to report a problem, whatever the store's own policy says — and the money is held until it is settled.

The Metzee team2 min read
payments

You won — what happens now

A payment sheet opens over the show. Thirty minutes if you are watching, twelve hours if it ended while you were away.

The Metzee team2 min read
bidding

How bidding works on Metzee

One bid, one step, everyone sees it in the same order — and the clock extends rather than cutting an argument short.

The Metzee team3 min read
how it works

How a live auction show works

One seller, one camera, a table of things, and a clock per item. What actually happens from joining to winning.

The Metzee team2 min read
how it works

What is Metzee?

Live video auctions from sellers across India. Somebody holds the thing up, tells you what it is, and you bid against other people watching.

The Metzee team2 min read
shipping

The quiet case for meeting in person

Half of what a courier does is undo the care somebody took wrapping the thing. Sometimes the answer is to not post it at all.

The Metzee team2 min read
makers

What a maker keeps

A seller should be able to answer "what did I earn on that?" without doing arithmetic we made necessary.

The Metzee team2 min read
shipping

The parcel is part of it

Handmade things are not uniform, and a delivery system that assumes they are will break them.

The Metzee team2 min read
buyer protection

Why we hold the money

Paying a stranger on the internet for something handmade is an act of trust. The least we can do is not make it a leap of faith.

The Metzee team2 min read
live auctions

The ten seconds after a bid

Everything interesting about an auction happens in the gap between somebody bidding and somebody else deciding whether to.

The Metzee team2 min read
live auctions

Why a show has an ending

A listing waits. A show does not. That difference is most of what makes buying from a maker feel like meeting one.

The Metzee team2 min read

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