About Dibbid

Dibbid is for passing things on to people you actually know — flatmates, friends, colleagues, a leaving-town group chat — without turning it into a marketplace.

The ethos

Selling second-hand online usually means strangers, lowball offers, and handing over your phone number to find out someone isn't coming. Dibbid assumes the opposite: a closed circle, where trust already exists and the only thing missing is a fair way to decide who gets what.

So the platform is deliberately quiet. Collections are never listed publicly or indexed. Offers are blind — no counts, no queues, no leaderboards. Contact details are never collected, let alone shared. The only identifying things Dibbid can hold are a username, an optional name your friends know you by, and an optional email for recovery.

When both sides confirm a handover, the listing is deleted outright. What's left behind is an anonymous tally of how the platform is used — never who used it.

How it works

  1. Step 1

    List

    Add an item, or a whole collection from the Dibbid spreadsheet template. Set an asking price or a discount, decide which prices are visible, and give a dibs-close and collect-by date.

  2. Step 2

    Share

    Send the link, the code or a QR to the people you want. Nothing is public, nothing is indexed, and you can add a passcode on top.

  3. Step 3

    Dibs

    The first person to claim calls dibs. After that it's double dibs, and once anyone attaches a price the item goes to bidding — each offer must beat the one before. Nobody sees anyone else's offers, or how many there are.

  4. Step 4

    Hand over

    When you accept an offer, the item closes and just the two of you see each other's names. You already know how to reach each other, so Dibbid stays out of it. Both sides confirm collection, and the listing is deleted.