Its like reverse eCommerce were instead of someone buying something from you, you are buying from them. Like they might have a laptop for instance. They can go to the site select the laptop they have and be given a quote. Lets say a quote for $300 they will accept the quote put in there information name,address,phone number, email address and also pick a method of payment. papal or check. They then will be sent a email with a shipping lable. They will be given instructions how to ship. So my question are what kind of technology would I be needing to make this type of website run smoothly? Im probably going to hire someone to do this but i want to have an idea of what needs to be done.
It's not that dissimilar You have the standard user info = email, phone etc You have a table of products (that you want to buy) You have a table of product features - this is the criteria that the product needs to have eg new/used, age you have a table of sale items - links to products and user you have a table of sale item features - links to sale items and product features When the user goes to your site to sell they fill out, in a single form: who they are - saved in user what they are selling - saved in sale items what features it has (this part of the form shown via ajax after the user selects the product)