| Website | us.zilok.com |
| Blog | us.zilok.com/blog |
| Category | Web |
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Zilok is a platform that allows anyone to rent anything he/she owns to anyone. The company, founded in Paris, France, launched the service in France in October 2007, and launched it in early November in the United States. As of early November, the service had a few thousand users.
The service, open to both private individuals and businesses, allows users to post items for rent and specify rental contracts. After choosing to accept or refuse reservation requests, the owner of the product and the person renting it decide on payment details and logistics via e-mail, telephone, or face-to-face. Zilok, a free service until January 2008, collects listing fees and commission on transactions.
The company was created by founders experienced with Marketplaces– Gary Cige and Thibaud Elzière, the founder of the online image bank Fotolia.com.
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| Website | us.zilok.com |
| Tags | ecommerce |
Here is how it works: Once registered on the website you can add any object you own for rental purposes. You define the price, the area you can cover, and the rental conditions (period, deposit,..). Zilok will issue for you a rental agreement that you will use directly with the renter. A user can use several tools to find what is searching to rent for including a search engine, a category directory or google map mashup. Once he identifies what is searching for, he will contact the owner and the closing is not happening on the website but in real life. Zilok does not provide a payment system or a third party deposit service. But like on standard marketplaces they have created a reputation system to filter easily power-owners or power-renters and to optimize the process.
