The safe way to trade

How Colleagues Market works

A marketplace built entirely on people you already work with. Here's how signing up, selling and buying actually happens — and why it's the safest way to trade.

Trading in three easy steps

From spare-room clutter to someone else's desk in one lunch break.

Snap and list it

Take a photo, write a line or two, set a price — your listing is live in about 30 seconds. If it takes longer, you've overthought it.

Agree a handover

Chat in the app, then meet somewhere easy and safe: the office lobby, the car park, the kitchen at lunchtime. No stranger's front door, ever.

Pay, swap and be done

Bank transfer on the spot or cash in hand — or skip money entirely and do a straight swap. Two board games for a waffle iron is a perfectly good economy.

Safety is baked in, not bolted on

Because every trade happens between named colleagues, most of the usual marketplace risks simply don't apply. The guardrails we do add:

Real-name buyers and sellers

Both sides of every trade show their real name — no anonymous accounts on either end.

Meet in the office

Handovers happen at work, in daylight, around people. The safest meeting point in town is already your workplace.

Report and review

Rate every trade and flag anything off. Reports go to real humans who review them within one working day.

No pressure, no haggling wars

Offers and messages happen in-app, so there's a record of everything agreed — and nobody has to share a personal number.

The seller's quick-start guide

Selling on Colleagues Market is deliberately quick. Four tips to shift your stuff faster:

Good light, honest photo

Snap it by a window and show any scuffs. Honest photos sell faster than glossy ones — and buyers arrive already trusting you.

Price to move

Check what it costs new, then be brave. Your unused bread maker is worth more as £15 in a colleague's kitchen than as a shelf ornament.

One-line descriptions

"Barely used, one missing sieve" beats a paragraph. Say what it is, what condition it's in, and why you're selling.

Offer a swap if you like

Not fussed about cash? Mark your listing open to swaps. Half the fun is seeing what colleagues offer in return.

Cream two-seater sofa in a bright living room£120

Cream loveseat

A real listing takes one photo, one line and a price. That's the whole form.

Ready to make your first trade?

Join the early list and you'll be among the first colleagues in your city with a live feed to browse — and a spare room to empty.

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