Bistip.com, a peer to peer courier service, celebrated its first anniversary on March 11, 2012 and is entering its second year. Welcoming this anniversary, it will take no service fee for SafePay (one of the facilities for payment at Bistip a joint account).
They will not take the 2% charge for the use of SafePay facility by users for a month starting from March 9 to April 9, 2012. In addition to holding this program, Willy Ekasalim, founder of Bistip.com, also explained the focus of this startup that already has received an investment from InvestIdea. If last year its focus was on completing the marketplace facility by improving transaction support feature such as messaging via email reply, then SafePay, etc., then this second year Bistip will try to focus on adding content – still with crowdsource method – of their site.
Willy described about some examples of this content addition including Item Suggestion feature which allows user to make suggestion about interesting goods from particular location and can be used as an idea for surrogacy from other people. Examples of the application of this feature can be found here. It will also feature a display of travelers who traveled from the area where the goods are suggested. Willy said that such goods and content system that will be developed further.
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