NYU Used Books Marketplace

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NYU Used Books Marketplace

• Requirements and Specification
• Presented by
• Kaushik Jagadish
• Group Members
• Mike
• Casey
• Danny

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What does it do?

• Offer a web-based interface for NYU students to
  conveniently buy and sell their used books
• Students will be able to offer their used books
  for sale at their own prices
• Students wishing to buy used books will be able
  to search the listings for the desired book and
  order it from any seller that is offering the
  book
• The service is free for NYU students

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Who are the customers?

• Potentially the entire NYU student community
• Over 50,000 people
• Customers that we have contacted
• Gordon White A fourth-year student in CAS.
• Yevgeniy Eltsufin A third-year student in CAS.

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Competitive Landscape

• All competitors charge a fee for a similar
  service
• The NYU Bookstore
• Currently, the primary source for purchasing and
  selling used textbooks for NYU students
• Buys at 50 and sells at 65 of the list price
• At least 23 commission fee
• Amazon.com Marketplace
• 0.99 plus a 15 commission fee for each used
  book sold
• eBay
• Insertion fee 0.25 to 4.80
• Auction closing fee 5.25 of the final value

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Requirements

• Account Management
• New User Registration
• Personal Profile
• Seller Inventory
• Transactions History
• Login
• Certain parts of the system should be completely
  public
• Must login for buying/selling functionality

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Books Catalogue

• The system will need to maintain a database of
  books that can be offered for sale by the sellers
  and requested by the buyers
• User should be able to add a new book to the
  catalogue, if it's not already there

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Buying

• Book Search
• By ISBN, Title, Author
• Searches the catalogue
• Book Home
• Multiple Sell Offers Listing
• Book Availability Notifications
• Checkout
• Select one of the sell offers and click buy
• At this point required to login

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Selling

• First find Book Home
• Click on the sell yours button
• Inserting a New Offer
• Book condition
• Price
• Transaction options
• The price can be changed later

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Transaction Options

• In-Person Transaction
• Complete the transaction by meeting in person
  somewhere on campus
• Book will be exchanged for the price at which it
  was sold online
• Online Transaction
• Buyer pays the seller through PayPal
• Seller must ship the book to the buyer

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System Administration

• System statistics
• The admin should be able to check overall system
  statistics
• Total number of registered users
• Total number of books sold
• The number of currently open offers
• Account Suspension
• Might be necessary to suspend some accounts due
  to complaints or violations

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Nonfunctional System Requirements

• Timing
• The project has to be completed by the end of the
  semester
• Scalability
• The completed system must be able to handle up to
  50,000 registered users
• Responsiveness
• User requests must be completed within reasonable
  amount of time
• Legal issues
• The online system must have the appropriate
  disclaimers and privacy policy.