What are you doing this weekend?

Cat’s out of the bag — it’s officially garage sale season. But why spend your Saturday morning driving around following a never-ending series of handwritten signs on neon poster board?

Instead, come join us this Saturday from 7:30AM to NOON at the 3rd Annual Goodie Two Shoes Foundation Rummage Sale & Bazaar. We’ll be there supporting a great cause and helping out sellers with some cool swag, maybe even picking up a few items ourselves. (Elvis bust anyone?)

Hope to see you there!

About Goodie Two Shoes Foundation

GTSF provides disadvantaged children and children in crisis with new shoes and socks as well as other items deemed essential for good health and positive development.

To learn more, please visit www.goodietwoshoes.org.

Event Details

Sam’s Club Parking Lot – NW Corner
7:30AM-NOON
Tropicana & Pecos (5101 S Pecos Rd)

Announcing Rumgr’s Official Launch & First Round of Funding

Six months ago we began to work on Rumgr. It all started at Startup Weekend Las Vegas, where Dylan pitched a very simple idea: using your phone, it should be easy to sell stuff to people around you. After some success from that weekend and seeing a very, very basic version of the app, we were hooked.

We spent the next few months working on getting a beta ready that we could get into the hands of the Vegas community and our friends. It took some long hours, sleepless nights, and lots of coffee, but in September we finally had Rumgr ready for a beta. We launched it quietly to the Apple App Store, told our friends and got some great local press. This was enough to get a solid community going here in the Vegas area.

Since releasing the beta, we have been listening to our users and watching how they use the app. With some much needed updates and fixes, we now feel Rumgr is ready to be shared with everyone. So today, we are happy to offically be launching Rumgr. You will notice that there is a new version in the App Store. This version contains a very big change that we believe will steer Rumgr in a great direction: we have decided to split comments and offers into two distinct actions.

With this change, you will know if someone is serious about your item. We hope that this will encourage people to commit to following through on their offers. If you’ve been using Rumgr for a while already be sure to update. We’ve always supported backwards compatibility, but with the addition of offers, comments won’t be able to be made on pre v1.2 versions of Rumgr.

In addition to offically launching Rumgr, we are excited to announce that we have recently raised capital funding. We are very humbled and excited to be able to work with our new investors Tony Hsieh, Fred Mossler, Arun Rajan, and Andrew Donner. With their support, we are now fully committed to making Rumgr the easiest and safest way you can buy and sell with your community.

Feel free to leave a comment and let us know what you think!

The Rumgr Team

New Website Features to Help You Buy and Sell

Since our launch, Rumgr has been all about a great iPhone experience. We are creating the easiest way for you to buy and sell stuff from your phone. We also believe that we can leverage the web to make that happen. We have been working hard to add new features to our website. Together the iPhone app and Web app will be a killer combo to help you buy and sell!

Here are some of the new website features to make your buying and selling even easier.

Open in Rumgr button

Have you ever clicked a Rumgr link on Twitter from your mobile phone and it took you the mobile website but you didn’t have any way of commenting, or bidding on that item? Now there is a button right below the item image that will take you directly to that item screen in the Rumgr app!

Commenting, “Watching”, Sharing

What has always made Rumgr great has been the interactions between people on the app. Well we decided to bring those same interaction features to the website experience. Now once you’ve logged in with your Rumgr username and password you’ll be able to use these new features!

With these new features you have the power to interact with other Rumgr users from mobile and the web! There is also no need to worry about staying in sync. When you comment or watch an item from the website, your app will automatically be updated with that information. That way no matter what device you’re using, you’ll always be in sync with the other!

Expect to see more and more features helping you buy and sell through Rumgr in the near future!

Rumgr 1.1 (iPhone)

All New Look

The new version of Rumgr is awesome. We have spent a lot of time and effort really thinking about each part of the app. We have overhauled the overall look of the app with a much more refined, consistent style.

Tabbed Garage

We broke the garage up into 3 different sections. There is a tab for the items you are selling, another for sales you are involved with, and one that contains items that you are currently watching. Items are now sorted by the last time someone left a comment on them. With just a quick glance you will be able to see every update.

Private Chat

Private chats are a very important part of Rumgr. They allow a buyer and seller to discuss where and when they want to meet up. Before, they were a strange side event that happens when you sell an item…not anymore! They are now part of a larger flow. You post an item, accept an offer, discuss where to meet up, then mark the sale as complete. We feel that this makes the whole process much quicker and easier to understand.

Item Page

We love the public commenting system of Rumgr. It is awesome to have to only answer the same question once. As people use the app we are always looking at trends, and one of those trends is that people often want to know where the seller is located. Consider this one solved. Whenever you want to know what area of town something is being sold from, just pull down on the item page to reveal a map of the items general location. Don’t worry, we aren’t giving away exact locations. That would be creepy.

Speeeeed

Which means less time loading. Win.

Contact Us

You can now contact us by clicking the account icon in the garage. Let us know what you think about the changes, if you are having any problems, have ideas to make things better or just want to chat. We would love to hear from you.

And More

Expect a lot more updates to the app in the future. 2012 is going to be a great year!

Rumgr T-Shirts

We just got our first batch of shirts in! They are inspired by the grid of items found in the Rummage tab of the app. We will be posting some for sale around Las Vegas on Rumgr over the next week.

Speaking at NodeSummit

We just found out that we will be participating in NodeJam during the upcoming NodeSummit in San Francisco. We are really excited for this opportunity.

Using Node.js as our backend language has been a wonderful experience. We will be sharing things that we have learned from working with Node.js in the future.

Art in My App

It’s no secret that we love the stunning photo capabilities of the iPhone. So it’s interesting that every once in a while when we’re rummaging through items on Rumgr we stumble across some really cool looking photos. Yes, it is possible to take really great photos without Instagram filters.

So we’ve rounded up a batch of the cool photos you’ve taken of your stuff to show off. If you’ve Rumgr’d any cool photos send a link to the item page to info@rumgr.com and we might feature them for you!

User Spotlight: Dean

Dean showing off his new poker set

Dean (@zappos_d) has been using Rumgr since early in the beta. Since then he has picked up two Rumgr titles:

• First Interstate Purchase
• First giveaway

Dean purchased a poker set from @tonyjcamp and had the item shipped from Phoenix, AZ to Las Vegas, NV. Not only did he get a great set of poker chips, but the price was unbeatable at a mere $5! Way to go.

The other first was that Dean sold a 19″ dell monitor to @wynnwu, for the low price of $0. Dean just wanted to get rid of the monitor, but was totally stoked to find out that someone else could put it to good use. Way to help a fellow neighbor.

This is only one of many awesome stories that has already emerged from people using Rumgr. We will be posting more as they happen. If you have had a great experience using Rumgr, met someone cool through the app, or just have a funny Rumgr story, please let us know.

Rumgr has landed in the App Store!

As of early this morning, Rumgr has been accepted into the App Store. We are super excited to be able to have everyone check out the app and sell some stuff. It has been a very busy couple months without much sleep (but plenty of PBR) as we worked hard to get the app ready.

To get the app you can either go to: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/rumgr/id465279121 or search “rumgr” in the app store on your phone.

We are excited to see what everyone sells and will continue to work hard to make sure we can provide the best possible experience!

The Rumgr Team

Beta Testing rumgr with TestFlight

Updated

We’re now in the App Store! Check us out.