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For Uni's, TAFE's, Organisations, Clubs, Community Grps & Commercial Business
Benefits
We provide a specialised online marketplace for the easy trading & recycling of all second-hand school items for students, families, schools and others, extending current recycling efforts far beyond textbooks or uniforms.
The heart of our system is a specially developed online classified ad service for the whole school community.
Uni's, TAFEs & Adult Education
- Our online service is both efficient and effective;
- Advertise items within your school / Uni or across all schools / Uni's;
- We complement existing schools second-hand services, whilst helping to reduce your schools costs, dependence on volunteers and/or demands on staff time;
- We help your school/organisation to gain additional funds by easily selling your own surplus items and reduce waste;
- We provide significant funds via our School Benefit Program;
- We facilitate the easy trading of second-hand books for students, Universities, & TAFEs;
- Membership is free for Universities and TAFEs;
- We have constructed this service to be both exceedingly convenient and effective for students and schools;
- Talk to us today, to find out how we can tailor our service to suit you!
Community Organisations & Clubs
- Membership is free;
- Place unlimited Wanted or For Sale advertisements for free;
- Recycle your surplus goods, or aquire the items you need;
- Connect with the wider school community.
Commercial Business
- Our online service is very efficient and effective and highly targeted to the school community;
- Businesses can place For Sale or Wanted advertisements too;
- We provide a Noticeboard system for business to communicate to students, families or schools;
- Businesses can advertise in other ways on our site;
- Inexpensive.
- Convenient helpful service
- Second-hand books well managed
- Restores value
- Promotes School Community
- ‘Wanted’ ads that work
- Unlimited advertisements
- Automated searching
- Greater choice
- 10% of sales donated to Schools
- Creates network between Schools
- Technology is a tool for sustainabilty
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- Improves Sustainability
- Trade your surplus items
- Saves money
- Reduce volunteer needs
- Reduce storage needs
- Second-Hand Textbooks made easy
- Reduces waste
- "Advertisement Matching" alerts
- Noticeboard Options
- Secure website
- Easy to use
- Help the environment
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What you can Sell or Buy
You can sell, buy or hand-on practically anything that children use while they are growing up, but most of all anything that relates to:
- Education;
- Extra curricular activities, hobbies and interests.
Check out the main Categories in the dropdown box on the main search page (just click on Go in the Search Bar).
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Annual Membership Fee
Uni's, TAFEs annual membership is free;
Community Organisations & Clubs annual membership is free;
Commercial Businesses annual membership is currently free till 1st November 2009 (normally $49.95)
Our role and objective is to encourage and assist parents, students and schools to recycle and re-use where possible, and your schools assistance with any of the following (if appropriate) would be greatly appreciated:
- Annually entering your booklists (if applicable)
- Placing a Sustainable School Shop ad, business card size, in your schools newsletter;
- Placing a Sustainable School Shop poster on your schools notice board where parents may see it;
- Placing a Sustainable School Shop flyer/brochure or newsletter ad (A5 or A4) in your schools Nov or Dec newsletter edition;
- Suggest other ways we can advise parents and students of this service.
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Registering & Joining (Membership)
All Universities, TAFEs, RTOs, Clubs, Community Groups, Commercial businesses and others can register and join the Sustainable School Shop. Only by becoming a member of the Sustainable School Shop can you place advertisements to sell, buy or hand-on your items and enjoy the many benefits provided.
Registering and Joining is quick and easy:
- Simply complete the required account form;
- Provide some basic information about your organisation and year levels (if applicable) provided (This allows us to automate and tailor our services to you and parents, such as interactive booklists);
- Read and agree to our Terms and Conditions;
- Click Register;
- You will be contacted by one of our friendly staff who will assist you to get started.
Our Site enables multiple users from the one School (Teachers and Staff) or Organisation, all within the same single Membership:
- Primary Contact (Our contact for your organisation);
- Other Registered Contacts (ie. Teachers and Staff).
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Searching
Finding items on the Sustainable School Shop website is a breeze.
On the main Search Page you can utilise the text boxes to Search by:
Or simply enter the title or full description of the item you require into the Main Search Bar.
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Automated Searching
Within 'My Ads/Create an New Advertisement' on your Organisations Homepage, as you describe your Ad, Automated Searching automatically searches the database and displays any matched results on the right hand side of the page. If there are no matched results for your item, then very simply you can list your Ad (either Wanted or For Sale) that you have just created.
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Advertisement Matching Alerts
Our system automatically places a message on your Homepage if an item within it matches your For Sale or Wanted Ad. The Alert message is in real-time and will remain until either of the 'matched' Ads/Items are delisted.
Wanted ads are the mirror image of For Sale ads and are equally important. By utilising a Wanted ad you can be amongst the first to know an item has become available to purchase via our Advertisement Matching Alerts.
For Members, the Sustainable School Shop removes the hard work of constantly searching, and saves you time.
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Advertisements
Memberships enables members to place as many advertisements over a year as you like. This is important as trading occurs year round and not just at the beginning or end of the school year.
Schools have the option within 'Create an New Advertisement' to display your advertisement to only other Schools.
All Advertisements:
- Will be listed for 12 months;
- Can be re-listed very easily at no additional cost;
- Can continue to be re-listed until the items are sold;
- Please de-list your advertisement once sold.
To place an advertisement you must already have registered and joined the Sustainable School Shop. After that you must:
- Log In
- Click ‘My Ads’ in the NavBar
- Click ‘Create a new Advertisement’
- Select ‘For Sale’ or ‘Wanted’
- Follow the prompts (the more information the better)
- Click ‘Finished’ or ‘Add Another Item’
- Check all details are correct and confirm your Ad by clicking on ‘List My Ad’
- Thats all - it’s that easy.
Placing ‘Wanted Ads is very important for those things you require, as our system will match-up items ‘For Sale’ to your ‘Wanted Ad’ and automatically notify you when they appear.
Within ‘My Ads’ you can Edit, Remove your Ad, Extend the expiry date, Unlist an Item within an Ad, Re-list your Ad, or View Ad history - its all very easy.
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Pricing Guide
You determine the asking price for the item you wish to sell and "appropriate" prices will vary significantly across the categories, but as a rough guide:.
Some items on the Sustainable School Shop may be given away to good causes such as Kindergartens, Hospitals etc, particulary if the item has little commercial value but still may be useful to others.
The only Fee charged by the Sustainable School Shop is our Membership Fee and we are not involved in the Sale/Purchase transaction.
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Messages on my Homepage
Messages will appear on your Homepage. These may include:
- Your Advertisement Matching Alerts
- Sustainable School Shop messages
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Organisation Details
Within Organisation Details the Primary User can:
- Change the details of your Organisation;
- Change its Password;
- Change the year levels (if applicable) provided;
- Add other users (ie. Teachers and Staff) each with their own email address and Password.
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Second-Hand Textbook Trading System & Booklists (if applicable)
We automate second-hand textbook trading and make it easy.
Your organisation's assistance in entering your Booklists will help fix some of the current intractable problems involving second-hand books for both parents and schools. We simply co-ordinate textbook requirements across year levels/subjects within a school, and create a workable marketplace for the trading of these second-hand textbooks by parents and students. By entering your booklists:
- Parents/students can easily place For Sale advertisements for all of their textbooks they wish to sell, and place Wanted advertisemens for all the textbooks they require;
- Textbooks that are still current for the following year should sell very quickly and easily;
- Our database automatically prompts and matches the sellers to the buyers of these textbooks across the year levels immediately the booklists are entered by your organisation;
- Parents/students immediately know at the end of the school year which second-hand textbooks for the following year are current and available to purchase;
- We assist Organisations to have greater certainty sooner for new textbook requirements.
Entering a Booklist is very easy - you just follow the prompts. All Registered Users of a member school/organisation can create a Booklist. We can enter your booklists should you require.
Many current books already exist on our database. By entering the ISBN our system will automatically display the book details, and you can simply just add it to your booklist.
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Toolbox
The toolbox provides supportive material for Schools and others who are members of the Sustainable School Shop.
Toolbox contents:
- Sustainable School Shop advertisement for Newsletters: Sizes Full, Half, Quarter, & Eighth of A4 Page. Other sizes available upon request.
- Sustainable School Shop Letter of Introduction for parents and students.
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Notices
Schools and Oganisations can write and post Notices that will appear in the Noticeboard section of a member/parent/student Homepage. It will appear the next time the member logs in to their Homepage. Members can select the schools/oganisations they wish to receive notices from. It is very easy to use.
Parents are able to search all past Notices, but only for their preselected Schools/Clubs/Organisations etc.
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Sustainable School Shop
You can learn more about the Sustainable School Shop at our About Us page.
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