Around the world, we face a paradox — and if you’re lucky, it’s a good one: you’ve accumulated so much stuff it’s now a burden. Closets, garages, and storage units are overflowing.

For billions of others, the challenge is the opposite: access. The ability to get their hands on goods they couldn’t afford new, but can afford used, can be life-changing, or at minimum, appreciated.

This is the problem Firesale solves.

I’ve spent 20+ years building and scaling technology companies, beginning as a software engineer at Sun Microsystems to founding four venture-backed startups, raising $20M+, and guiding multiple businesses through acquisitions worth more than $140M. Along the way, I’ve built platforms that disrupted real estate commissions, repositioned a semiconductor business through acquisition, and built one of the first social analytics platforms tracking over 1.3B profiles.

But what excites me most about Firesale is that we’re not just solving a massive universal problem — we’re delivering a universal good.”

Sellers record a 2-second video, and our AI does the rest, full stop.

It’s a triple win:

• Win for Sellers: Turn clutter into cash, effortlessly.
• Win for Buyers: Access affordable, quality goods, for a lot less.
• Win for the Planet: Reduce landfill waste while extending product life cycles.

The resale economy is projected to be a $1T+ global market by 2029, growing faster than retail, even with the slow, clunky, and fragmented platforms that power the market today. Firesale is building the effortless resale engine — purpose-built for frictionless speed, liquidity, and local network effects.

We’re launching in South Florida, proving the model, then scaling until we’ve built the world’s largest online yard sale.

If you believe selling should be effortless, buyers should have better access, and the planet deserves better than a landfill economy — we’d love to have you.

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Anthony Longo

Founder & CEO, Firesale

A.I. is changing everything — and resale is next.

AI is rewriting everything about how we live, work, and consume. Virtually everything we know today will look and act differently tomorrow — buying and selling are no exception.

The most iconic companies of our generation all share one trait: they removed friction.

• Uber: push a button, car arrives
• DoorDash: choose a dish, food delivered
• Venmo: one tap, money transferred
• Netflix: click, ta-dum, movie starts

Each of these companies turned a painful, slow process into something magical. Firesale is bringing that same magic to resale.

• Firesale: one tap, listed for sale

The Problem

Selling stuff is such a hassle; we don't bother doing it.

The problem isn’t just clutter – it’s friction.

• Forms. Endless fields to fill out.
• Messenger threads. Haggling, low-ball offers, and scammers are everywhere.
• Parking-lot meetups. Awkward exchanges with strangers.

Meanwhile, garages, basements, and closets across America are stuffed to the gills:

• Nearly 150 million homes all with the same problem
• The average US household has over 300,000 items
• 25% of homes with two-car garages can’t fit a car in either stall
• 1-in-10 households rent off-site storage units

This idle inventory (or latent demand, as we like to call it) creates zero value. No economic activity, no benefit to people who need these goods, and no joy for the owners. Everyone loses.

The Solution

Firesale

You walk into your garage, open your phone, and in less than 1 minute, you list 20 items for sale.

No forms. No uploads. Just point, tap, done. That’s Firesale.

We turned the nightmare of resale into a one-tap experience that feels like magic:

• 📹 AI-Powered Camera: Record a 2-second video — no typing.
• 🧠 AI Selling Agent: Titles, descriptions, categories, answers to questions, and prices appear like magic.
• 📉 Auto-Pricing: Our platform understands your item, current market demand across the web, and we recommend price adjustments so you can sell your item fast.
• 🚚 Fulfillment Engine: We partnered with Uber and nationwide shipping logistics providers for contactless local pickup & delivery.

You tap. We sell. You get paid.

A Massive Opportunity

The resale economy is not a niche — it’s a trillion-dollar opportunity hiding in plain sight:

• $523B resale market ($1T by 2029) growing double digits annually
• 150M homes stuffed full with unused items
• 165,000 yard sales every Saturday, providing demand (that’s more than 8.5M yard sales per year)
• eBay, Facebook & Craigslist — the biggest players — are 22+ years old and have never served this market

The space is wide open for a category-defining winner.

This isn’t a niche problem. It’s one of the largest untapped opportunities in consumer tech.

Why Now

• Recent AI breakthroughs make instant listing, auto-pricing, and effortless mass market syndication possible for the first time.
• Aging "boomer" population, downsizing, and passing down $84T in assets.
• Cultural tailwinds — minimalism, side hustles, and sustainability — are reshaping consumer behavior.
• Stale competition — Facebook Marketplace, Craigslist, Ebay and OfferUp are filled with scams, spam, and loads of friction across the entire buying/selling process.

This is our moment to build the most frictionless resale engine on Earth.

Our Business Model

Firesale makes money in several ways:

• 20% commission on every sale
• Shipping & delivery fulfillment (via our partnership with Uber & 3rd party logistics)
• Buyer/seller protection & insurance
• Premium features for power users 

Our model scales as the platform scales — a true network-effect marketplace.

Our Defensibility

Product features can be copied. Trust, speed, and liquidity cannot.

Firesale builds defensibility through:

• Our AI is not a feature; it’s a system that gets smarter every time a listing is created, sold, and fulfilled
• Unique inventory is a moat, similar to Airbnb, people don’t come for the UX, they come for the unique inventory
• Network effects from multi-listing sellers with cross-side growth loops
• Local-first + weekly drops liquidity loops to ensure everything sells fast
• Trust layers, inclusive of buyer/seller protections, in a space plagued by scams and bad actors

The Vision

Every Saturday, we host the largest yard sale in the world — online.

Millions of sellers. Millions of buyers. Billions of dollars in idle inventory turned into cash.

This is not just a marketplace. This is a movement.

Join Us

We’re backed by investors and operators who have built billion-dollar enterprises, so you’re investing alongside people who have done this before.

• Mark Tempelton: Retired CEO of Citrix and Digital Ocean 
• Alex Priest: Marketing Chief of Staff & employee #35 at Uber
• Tom Sperry: GP at Rogue Ventures
• Chris Quinn: GP @ Mute Ventures

We’re raising this Wefunder round to:

• Launch and dominate our first markets, starting right here in Palm Beach County
• Refine our AI listing engine and liquidity flywheels
• Build a resale movement that changes how the world sells

Invest today and own a piece of the company that will define the future of resale. Firesale isn’t just a better marketplace — we’re creating a brand new category.

We believe resale should feel like magic, not work. We’re here to make it effortless and profitable for everyone.