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Svpply to retire on August 31st

43 points| uptown | 11 years ago |svpply.com | reply

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[+] Judson|11 years ago|reply
It's a strange feeling to see Svpply finally setting into the sun. Most of us have moved on from ebay and the site has been semi-running itself for the past 6 months.

It's going to be weird saying "I worked on Svpply, a site that used to be about letting people curate and discover products".

[+] dotBen|11 years ago|reply
http://blog.svpply.com/post/31008753911/ebay-inc-acquires-sv...

"One thing we do want to make clear: Svpply is not going away. We’ll continue to bring our users new products each day"

Sounds oh so familiar these days...

[+] jamesaguilar|11 years ago|reply
Meh. That was two years ago.

If you expect a small company to persist for longer than that based on a single statement, it's best to just consider yourself outside the target audience for longevity predictions. There just is not that much certainty in the world for small firms.

[+] frandroid|11 years ago|reply
Another addition for http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
[+] jewel|11 years ago|reply
I'm not so sure. "We regret to announce...", "We appreciate", a factual paragraph about what the team has been doing at ebay, and a way to export your data.

That's far better than the typical "We're excited to announce that we've been acquired, and are immediately shutting down the product", at least in my opinion.

[+] eth|11 years ago|reply
Despite ebay's initial "Svpply is not going away" claim, this took about a year longer than I expected.

Fancy.com is my alternative of choice.

[+] nedwin|11 years ago|reply
Bummer. I still use this to find clothes. Glad to hear they're going to bring back a slightly different version of it.
[+] Dramatize|11 years ago|reply
The site died a while ago. It would have been interesting what direction Ben and co would have taken it.
[+] sagichmal|11 years ago|reply
Extremely saddened. Svpply was one consumer goods portal I continuously felt like I could rely on.
[+] uptown|11 years ago|reply
Much of what they post is beyond the price-range of most consumers, but I find Uncrate to be a decent site for that kind of stuff:

http://uncrate.com/

[+] chollier|11 years ago|reply
Brrr I'll miss my everyday notification from Want, that's a bummer !
[+] shoxxx|11 years ago|reply
bummed about this. canopy.co is another alternative - but just for amazon products.