The Sustainable School Shop is an online trading platform specially designed to the school community, linking people across the different year levels of education. It is a service designed to promote and encourage recycling and reuse of second-hand school items.
The heart of the system is an online classified ad service, specially designed to facilitate the trading of second-hand school items.
Two separate trading systems form the basis of this service:
Either or both can be implemented into a school and both can be customised to your school's requirements.
Back To TopParents, students and schools from kindergarten to university.
This service has been designed and developed for parents and students to easily recycle and trade their second-hand school items. As such, it is parents that derive the value and benefit from the service and pay for the service.
Parents can register and search the ads for free.
Parents can list a casual advertisement that allows two items to be advertised for $ 1.95.
Parents can purchase an Annual Family Membership for $19.95, allowing unlimited For Sale and Wanted ads for a year, covering all their children. It also provides access to the Second-hand Textbook Trading System.
Parents: become responsible for trading their second-hand items; receive a more convenient, comprehensive and effective service, and are happier.
In addition, schools are provided with Complimentary Annual Family Memberships to assist those families that are experiencing financial hardship.
For Schools access to the service is free.
Back To TopBy parents paying for a casual advertisement or an Annual Family Membership. Revenue is also derived from commercial advertising and sponsorships.
The Sustainable School Shop is not involved in the transaction between the seller and purchaser, nor do we take a portion of the sale price.
The Sustainable School Shop is a national volume based service, as such, it is a very inexpensive service for parents.
Back To TopVery little! The Sustainable School Shop provides parents with Email and Telephone support lines as well as all printed material such as User Guides.
Implementing either trading system is simple and easy. It involves:
Additionally, for the Second-hand Textbook Trading System:
For schools that have well developed and valued existing second-hand services, we individually tailor our service to complement and expand the existing service. For example, our service might be used to advertise all those other second-hand items except those the existing service handled.