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Show Off the Flip

Finds, flips and hauls in a feed where every post from a real ledger wears a tick. Plus the Spots map: pin your hunting grounds and see where the resellers you follow are finding the good stuff.

The feed has three kinds of post. A find: what you paid and what it should fetch. A flip: paid to sold, with the ROI badge, the platform, and how many days it took, rated by other resellers from one to five flames. A haul: a whole trip, item count, spend, and what the lot should bring back, with a little map of where you were.

The trust mechanic is the tick. A post created from your own ledger carries a verified badge, because the numbers came from the app, not from your keyboard. Anyone can claim a 933 percent flip. The tick means the app saw it happen.

Sophie's Ashford car boot run and Rob's GameBoy flip, 933 percent ROI, 26 ratings.
Sophie's Ashford car boot run and Rob's GameBoy flip, 933 percent ROI, 26 ratings.

Following and profiles

Tap any author and their profile opens: their posts, their records if they have chosen to share them, and a follow button. Your own profile shows the same, with privacy switches for profit, ROI and flip count. Avatars are a custom photo, a premade pack, or Flip himself.

The Spots map

The Spots tile opens a map with the noise turned off, no restaurants and petrol stations, just your pins. Mark a car boot, a charity shop, an auction house or a bric-a-brac stall by searching or dropping your current location, give it a name and a note, and it gets a fox-face marker with a badge for its kind. Orange is yours. Turn on Friends and the blue markers are spots from resellers you follow.

Trips are a separate, quieter tool: set a sourcing budget, quick-add finds while the trip is live and they are tagged to it, and ending the trip offers a haul post to the feed.

Your hunting grounds. Fox markers for your spots, blue for friends' spots.
Your hunting grounds. Fox markers for your spots, blue for friends' spots.

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