Recent Launch of Onemarketplace.com Enables Multiple and Simultaneous Sales Listings

Brendan Boyd, a San Diego Internet entrepreneur, gave me an update today on the venture we discussed last April, when Boyd and his partners were developing ideas for a website that enables users to sell merchandise through multiple online venders.

The website that Boyd had created with partners Jan Anton and Eric Jacobson was in beta development at the time, and they also had decided to rename the business. They had started the business as iSelfStore.com, which only reflected half of their business model—an online hub that helps users to keep an inventory of their belongings.

So they changed the name of their San Diego-based startup to Onemarketplace, which better reflects the higher-value part of their online business, which enables users to put their items up for sale on multiple e-commerce sites at the same time. Their Web-based application enables someone to fill out a single form at Onemarketplace.com, and sell items simultaneously on eBay, Amazon, Craigslist, Oodle, OLX, and Vast. Users also can sell merchandise through online classifieds at AOL, Facebook, and MySpace, and promote their listings on social networks like Twitter and Facebook.

Boyd says they launched Onemarketplace.com on Sept. 14, and Web traffic has been rising steadily since then. “We re-branded the business and re-did the whole look and feel of the website,” Boyd says.

The partners have continued to put their own money into the venture, Boyd says. While he told me in April that they were seeking between $250,000 and $500,000 in angel funding, Boyd now says they have stopped actively seeking investors.

Author: Bruce V. Bigelow

In Memoriam: Our dear friend Bruce V. Bigelow passed away on June 29, 2018. He was the editor of Xconomy San Diego from 2008 to 2018. Read more about his life and work here. Bruce Bigelow joined Xconomy from the business desk of the San Diego Union-Tribune. He was a member of the team of reporters who were awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting for uncovering bribes paid to San Diego Republican Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham in exchange for special legislation earmarks. He also shared a 2006 award for enterprise reporting from the Society of Business Editors and Writers for “In Harm’s Way,” an article about the extraordinary casualty rate among employees working in Iraq for San Diego’s Titan Corp. He has written extensively about the 2002 corporate accounting scandal at software goliath Peregrine Systems. He also was a Gerald Loeb Award finalist and National Headline Award winner for “The Toymaker,” a 14-part chronicle of a San Diego start-up company. He takes special satisfaction, though, that the series was included in the library for nonfiction narrative journalism at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. Bigelow graduated from U.C. Berkeley in 1977 with a degree in English Literature and from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1979. Before joining the Union-Tribune in 1990, he worked for the Associated Press in Los Angeles and The Kansas City Times.