The failure of GlassPass experimentation

It’s not necessarily true that I’m a bumbling idiot, I just like to experiment. Which does necessarily mean I fail at a lot of stuff.

New to the list for me, GlassPass: a miserable dud of a glass sales app.

My first and definitely only listing on GlassPass.

For being a start-up, the GlassPass app has decent functionality. It is actually possible to open an account and list an item. Perhaps not the multitude options and well-revised interface of places like Etsy or eBay, but functional enough. It’s possible the less than evolved operation of the app will improve over time, and I could perhaps agree if someone said this level of design fits the art market.

I have lots of glass that I can’t sell because my career is terrible, and I have more finished work every day.

Learning to experiment with whatever sales outlets I have is absolutely necessary.

I heard about GlassPass, downloaded the app, and executed my standard and much loved new sales venue experiment: sell a Zanfirico something for charity.

I listed a dry Zanfirico pipe. It was pretty easy to do because of the GlassPass app.

To my inspectional eyes, GlassPass does not have an audience. It’s dead in there. There are no listings on obvious fire with gaggles of customers. There are multiple listings that have been up for months, and being unsold, they have been relisted multiple times. GlassPass generally has the vibe of an unexpectedly dead trade show: a lot of stuff that isn’t great and isn’t selling, no customers, and many makers quietly wondering how many sellers are on suicide watch.

However, my dry pipe for charity in GlassPass did receive 2 or 3 bids up to the selling price of $95, which I was fine with. Semi-pleased even.