“Sell where you share.” Online anyway.

Gumroad is a new online sales portal that only charges a small amount to use the services. According to the website, it’s a fixed fee of 25 cents plus a 5% charge of sale price per item sold. However, there is no monthly fee and each product gets a custom product URL. If the item doesn’t sell, no one loses any additional money. Although the product producer might experience some embarrassment without sales because the only way anyone knows about an available product is when the producer shares the URL. There is no store, virtual or otherwise, to explore, but content can be shared in all online social spaces.

The concept and site inventor, Sahil Lavingia, felt there was a need to share small cost items for sale, such as an original poem or song, without large overhead costs. The site even lets you limit the number of sales possible if you want to produce a specific number of items. Other online seller opportunities made small cost items pointless when fees can be greater than the cost of an item.

I haven’t seen any links to products through Gumroad yet. Have you?