Don't Regift Or Resell: Rent Your Presents Online With Zilok!

Jan. 7, 2008 - PRLog -- San Francisco, CA
Are your redundant or disappointing Christmas presents going to end up on eBay or Craigslist? Are you planning on regifting? Now with Zilok you can do better and rent them to your neighbors.

Holiday’s celebration: parties, decorations, presents… lots of excitement, and sometimes some disappointment! About half the gifts received don’t match their recipients expectations. That explains why there are so many brand new items offered on eBay and Craigslist in January. In 2007, about 15% of eBay individual sellers were reselling at least one Christmas gift online…

Indeed 60% of Americans think regifting has become more accepted. 42% think it saves money. Now Zilok allows people to go one step further, and put their new presents at work by renting them!

Zilok offers through its peer-to-peer renting platform, a new, sustainable and community driven alternative to selling online: anyone can list anything for others to rent, and recycled Christmas presents are already found on its marketplace.

"40% of people are offended at the idea of reselling received presents. Renting them instead is the perfect solution: it allows to make more money than selling, while still keeping the gifts ", says Jeff Boudier, General Manager of Zilok in the USA.

Board and video games, strollers, digital cameras, bikes, thousands of items are already available for rent on Zilok. It’s a convenient and safe way to make money out of one’s closet by quickly listing items for rent, for people around to access.

An early Zilok user, Tiboel, confirms: "Over the last couple months, I rented my D80 digital camera 7 times. This is amazing, I made $420 and can now consider buying a new lens!"

Don't offend your relatives, keep your presents and make money with them by renting them on Zilok.

Visit our wesite: http://us.zilok.com/t/1728


Additional material and references:

P2P renting explained by Zilok members in ABC Network news story: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxrcFRCx-9A


Site of the Week award and review by PC Magazine: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2218287,00.asp
TechCrunch launch review: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/05/zilok-allows-you-to-rent-anything-from-anyone/
Mashable launch review: http://mashable.com/2007/11/06/zilok/
CNET launch review on Webware: http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9811859-2.html
Background information about peer-to-peer renting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-to-peer_renting
Background information about regifting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regift
IMM Regifting Survey results: http://www.nationalregiftingday.com/Survey-Results-2007.aspx

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About Zilok:

Zilok is the first online rental marketplace allowing individuals and businesses to list any kind of goods for rent. Zilok was launched in October 2007 in Europe, with operations in France, Belgium and Luxembourg, and in early November 2007 in the United States, operating from San Francisco.

Zilok is a member of the American Rental Association.

Website: us.zilok.com/t/1727