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Scenario 1: Sophia Scenario – Sophia wants to give away her items (Esin)

She has been studying in BFM as an Erasmus exchange student for one semester. Now that the courses are over, she is returning to her home country. During her stay in Tallinn, she bought several items such as a quilt and some kitchen utensils. Her landlord requested her to empty the flat while moving out. She can’t carry them back to her home country, but she also doesn’t want them to end up in trash. So, she is looking for a person who might use these items. In the last weeks of semester, a friend of Sophia recommends her Tradent, an app where university students can trade goods with each other. So, Sophia downloads Tradent to her mobile phone and creates an account which includes mandatory information such as full name, educational background and personal picture. These personal information are given in order to establish and maintain reliability in Tradent.

After creating her account, she runs through and explores the app’s possibilities. She finds out that she can choose between selling, bartering or giving away. Since she is leaving town in a short amount of time, she prefers the give away option. In this stage, Tradent wants her to give some information about the item she wants to give away. Sophia uploads a couple of pictures of the item and fills the description area where she gives information about the item’s condition, color or size. Lastly, she enters the location data for meeting. After entering the necessary information about the item she wishes to give away, she submits it and makes her item shown on the map of Tallinn, indicated with a pin. After a couple of days, she gets a notification from Tradent saying one people is interested on that item. After that, they have a conversation through the app and agree on time and place to meet.

After their meeting goes smoothly, she feels happy for using Tradent and be able to manage to help a fellow student as she knows that studying abroad may be sometimes financially demanding. She knows the item she’ll be leaving behind will be in good use instead of going to a dumpster.

Scenario 2: Kristjan Scenario – Kristjan is exploring the browsing possibilities (Saba)

Kristjan is a Bachelor’s degree student who works part time, so he does not have a lot of spare money to spend. So he does an online search for websites that specialize in bartering and have local users. He finds Tradent and it catches his interest, so he downloads the app to his phone and creates a user account.

The first thing that appears to Kristjan is a google map of Tallinn, with several color coded icons that indicate items up for selling, bartering or give away. Of course, Kristjan might have something particular in mind. He wants to get hold of a floor lamp and a textbook he needs for school. He searches in the lamp in the Furnitures Category and he finds out that there are several sub-categories, and then he searches for the specific sub-category “Lamps”. While he is filtering the categories, he realizes that the number of pop-ups are decreasing. Since he has nothing to trade, he also filters out the “Bartering” option by checking the selling and give away checkboxes. He looks around his location if any pop-ups are left on the map and he finds a couple of them indicating other users who are selling or giving away lamps but none of them are floor lamps.

For the textbook, since it has a specific name, he chooses to use the search bar. Results show that one textbook he is searching for is available and it’s shown on the map. He clicks this pop-up to see the details and to contact the user. After a while, Kristjan receives a message from the seller where they will negotiate the price and the meeting place.

Scenario 3: Charlie Scenario – Charlie wants to teach his languages (Luis)

Charlie is a Master’s Degree student who is multilingual, being fluent in several languages. He is in his final semester writing his thesis, giving him a flexible schedule. He is very excited with his recent arrival in Tallinn. He arrives at his new apartment, which is looking rather bare. He will have to put in some furniture and other household items. But, he has not secured an official job yet, and would rather not spend so much money at once just to get started without a plan to gain finances. On his first day at Tallinn University, he is informed of a trade and barter app called Tradent, where students made trade goods with one another, but may also use the app for selling purposes, and even offer paid services. This last aspect is what catches Charlie’s attention.

The opportunity to easily advertise services for which you could get paid? The first and only thing that comes to Charlie’s mind is the possibility of him teaching one (or more) of his six languages. He immediately downloads the app and proceeds personalize his profile. He advertises his profile with, “Hello! Bonjour! Guten tag! Ciao! Hola! Salve! If you want to learn how to continue beyond these greetings, I would happily provide some private lessons!” He elaborates on his background in the profile description, and stresses the amount of enthusiasm he has for all things international.

Charlie eventually receives a notification from a student who is interested in learning Italian. Charlie gets in contact with the user, and proposes a fee of 10 euros an hour. The user accepts, they exchange their information, and set up a teaching schedule.

After some lessons, the user is very pleased with Charlie’s lessons, and rates him five stars. Now, on Charlie’s profile, his teaching services are marked by a positive five star rating. It is shown as being based on just one rating, but the more positive ratings Charlie accumulates, the more likely he will receive notifications from interested students.