Flyp wants to give power resellers enterprise-grade e-commerce tooling

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Written By Rick Watson

The startup’s core, revenue-generating product is an algorithmic matching platform that pairs a regular consumer, or a liquidation company, or a donation center, with a power reseller to offload their inventory of used goods.

The company works with channels like ThredUp, TheRealReal and eBay.  I’m a little worried about this model, primarily because the quality of inventory has to be in question if it’s going to some kind of matching marketplace.  High-quality inventory doesn’t need this kind of service because it’s worth the effort for whoever has it to sell it themselves.

TechCrunch: Flyp wants to give power resellers enterprise-grade e-commerce tooling

Rick Watson

Rick Watson founded RMW Commerce Consulting after spending 20+ years as a technology entrepreneur and operator exclusively in the eCommerce industry with companies like ChannelAdvisor, BarnesandNoble.com, Merchantry, and Pitney Bowes.

Watson’s work today is centered on supporting investors and management teams incubating and growing direct-to-consumer businesses. Most recently, in partnership with WHP Global, Rick was a critical resource in architecting the WHP+ platform, a new turnkey direct to consumer digital e-commerce platform that powers AnneKlein.com and JosephAbboud.com.

Watson also hosts a weekly podcast, Watson Weekly, where he shares an unbiased, unfiltered expert take on the retail sector’s biggest players.

In the past year alone, Rick has spoken at many in-person and virtual events as well as podcasts on topics ranging from retail/ecom to supply chain/logistics and even digital grocery including CommerceNext IRL, ASCM Connect, and Retail Innovation Conference.

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