How To Use

Thank you for your interest. Using Repair Flip is easy, fun, safe and simple!

Register an account. You may do so here: Registration. There are two types of account, vendor and customer accounts. Vendor accounts are for if you want to list items for sale on RepairFlip, customer accounts are if you wish to only buy items from RepairFlip. If you register a customer account and decide you want to list items, no worries, you may easily upgrade later.

Once registered, you may list items for sale, or make offers on items for sale.

Selling Guidelines:

You may list household items for sale between $5-$55 each. They should be items which are used, and in need of repair, refurbishment or other value add services. Items which you are considering throwing away, but can’t justify it because they’re broken yet repairable – but you don’t have the time/skill to do the repair yourself. Absolutely no new items for sale are allowed! Also, please be serious about selling all your items! If you receive an offer that’s reasonable, please consider accepting it. Even a bit of cash – beats tossing it in the trash! RepairFlip for those serious about making deals, quickly handing off items, and getting paid.

Buying Guidelines:

Each item is tagged is tagged by Zip Code(s), which the seller is willing to meet you at a public place in those area(s) for item pickup (such as outside your local post office). You may offer the seller any amount between $5-$55 per item. If the seller accepts your offer, please pay us promptly. We will hold the funds as an escrow, and as soon as the sale is successfully completed we will promptly disburse payment to the seller. As soon as your payment is received by us, you’ll be given the contact information of the seller to pickup the item.

Negotiation, Reporting, Sale and Escrow:

If you receive an offer on any of your broken items listed for recycling, you’ll be notified via email. If you click “accept” then the buyer will be notified with a request for payment escrow (to our official payment account). If payment from the buyer is received by us, we’ll send both parties an email with contact information of each respective party to arrange pickup via an email re-mailer service.

After the exchange of items is completed successfully, please let us know (whether you are the buyer or the seller) by reporting the transaction as “successful” so we can disperse payment to the seller promptly. If there are any problems with the sale, such as if the buyer rejects the item or the buyer or seller aren’t able to meet up, report the transaction as “failed”. If both parties report a transaction as “successful” or “failed” it helps us to rapidly pay the seller, or refund the buyer.

If one party reports a transaction as “failed” while another “successful” we’ll need to investigate. Please do not lie. If a transaction is successful, as in the item is picked up, report it promptly. If you are unable to pick up the item from the seller in spite of your best efforts, report the transaction as “failed” in order to being the refund process.

You have 24 hours to dispute if you disagree with the assessment of a transaction report. For example, if you’re the buyer and the seller reports the transaction as “successful” but the item was never picked up – please inform us if this is in error by reporting the transaction as “failed”. After 24 hours, funds will be transferred so any transactions reported as “successful” will no longer be refundable.

Arranging Pickup:

If the seller accepts an offer and you pay for it, we will provide both parties with the (email) contact information of each-other so they can arrange a local pickup.

Safety:

Local pickups are cashless, we handle the payments electronically directly from both parties bank accounts. Do not bring cash to a local pickup, or arrange for other forms of compensation. If you do not feel comfortable with the buying party knowing your home address, arrange to meet elsewhere, such as at the local neighborhood’s police station.

Beware of Scams. The only valid form of payment on RepairFlip is a Zelle® transaction to our official account when requested by us via email: Pay@RepairFlip.com. Please do not send money to this account unless requested by us. We will never request you send payment elsewhere. (Such as bank wires, crypto, bitcoin – these are all fraudulent and scams.) Amounts in the range of $5 – $55 are valid, we do not accept more or less per transaction.

Payments:

In order to offer the most economical service, payments are handled through Zelle®, which many US banks participate with. Zelle is a fee free, rapid payment option. Please note, we will never ask you to send money elsewhere. Such as a bank wire, or Credit Card page.

Safety:

Local pickups are cashless, we handle the payments electronically directly from both parties bank accounts. Do not bring cash to a local pickup, or arrange for other forms of compensation. If you do not feel comfortable with the buying party knowing your home address, arrange to meet elsewhere, such as at the local neighborhood’s police station.

Email Services:

To notify you of new offers on your items, and request payment from seller accepted offers you’ve made we use an automated email service. In addition, to rate and review transactions, we provide email mailings so that the relevant parties can be notified. For your privacy and convince, we provide an in built email relay service, to arrange correspondence with the local users of this website to facilitate item pickup at their leisure.

Why the Price Range Limits?

We’re focused on recycling by preventing items from ending up in the landfill. Re-homing items if you will, after all we’ve all heard the phrase, “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure”. The best way to recycle, is to simply prevent items from ending up in the trash (waste stream) because one they’re there “post-consumer recycling” is very difficult mostly just isn’t done. With the few exceptions of some items, like aluminum cans in appropriate disposal bins.

Items that are more valuable, aren’t very likely to end up in the trash. So we focus on items that are $5-$55 each, in danger of being unfortunately tossed away (and then becoming useless to everyone forever) due to being broken or in need of service, but still of value and use to others! This also helps repairers find deals on the site, increasing the likelihood your items will sell and the value delivered to everyone.

I Have An Idea For Recycling! Can You Help Me Start or With My Existing Recycling Business?

Great! Certainly hope so! We need all kinds of people involved to help recycle, repurpose, repair, and refurbish all kinds of different items, both for resale or individual use. We may be able to help you source items for recycling. Please don’t be a stranger, feel free to get in touch – our business thrives on the energy of people like yourself.

How Can We Fix Recycling?

The simple reason recycling doesn’t work is because it’s not profitable for many items so items are tossed instead. The items which are profitable to recycle – such as aluminum cans, jewelry, car (lead-acid batteries) are almost always recycled. In order to make recycling more prolific, it needs to be more profitable. This may include combinations of “right to repair” and other regulatory schemes, but even within our existing framework of society there’s a lot more we can be doing to prevent waste, and recycle. To make recycling more profitable, we must empower small scale recyclers – those who specialize in specific types of items. Again, the best way to recycle isn’t after an item is thrown away, but simply preventing items from being thrown away as much as possible – by “re-homing” these items to those locally that can either repair, re-purpose, re-sell, or recycle the item.