Gumiyo.com Adds Anonymized Phone Numbers to Classified Listings
Gumiyo.com is working on a very similar concept, but for phone usage. Using its oh-so-Web 2.0 classified site to buy or sell items, a seller or buyer can be hooked up via telephone by using “disposable” phone numbers. If you find something you like, you enter your phone number and a verification code and hit “Send!”. Your number is auto-magically paired with a Gumiyo number and this number is sent to the seller. When he or she calls it, it basically forwards to yours. It even works with text messaging, a neat feature.
It’s free for sellers and buyers, and compliments Gumiyo’s other advanced features, like txtmsg notifications and threaded sale discussions. The service is powered by telephony start up JAJAH, who seems to share Gumiyo’s philosophy that, in time, you won’t need a computer to buy things on the Internet.
Telephony Meets Online Classifieds: Sellers One Click Away with Private, Web-Activated Phone Calls [eMedia Newswire]