Renting Out Home Belongings Over the Internet
SnapGoods is one of the latest start-ups that bases its business model around allowing people to share, exchange and rent goods in a local setting. Among others are NeighborGoods and ShareSomeSugar. Other commercial services are springing up, too, including group-buying sites like Groupon, the peer-to-peer travel site Airbnb and Kickstarter, which allows people to invest small sums in creative ventures.
The common thread of all these sites is that access trumps ownership; consumers are offered ways to share goods instead of having to buy them.
Ron J. Williams, co-founder of SnapGoods, based in New York, describes the phenomenon as the “access economy.”
via nytimes.com
