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I’ve been writing a newsletter for yours2share for nearly four years now. Except for the first few months all of them have been managed through the excellent ConstantContact. I only recently realised that I could have an archive of newsletters. So here is the yours2share newsletter archive. Click here if you’d like to subscribe: you can [...] 2-3 partners wanted, Southerly 110, Swing Keel, 2000, Lymington, Hampshire Many boat owners are wondering whether they can justify keeping and maintaining their beloved boat and yet selling it, even if they wanted to, isn’t that easy at the moment either. Some of these pondering sailors are coming to yours2share to sell shares in their boat: [...] Gill Dearnley of One Stop Italy sent me a link to Girl Meets Dress an interesting website where you can hire designer dresses for the night online. I was aware of several websites where you can rent handbags, sunglasses and accessories, but I hadn’t seen one for dresses before. Not quite the fractional rental that yours2share [...] About a month ago there was a great article in the Daily Mail discussing fractional ownership and private syndicates. Two yours2share members who share more than one major asset were interviewed: Graham Price shares a property and boat in France; and Bill Hosie shares a boat and an aircraft. This created a great deal of [...] Following up from an earlier blog post about RelayRides, there is an interesting article in the Economist today about peer to peer car sharing. As well as RelayRides in the US, there is another operator WhipCar operating a similar peer to peer car rental service. I’ll have to try it out. And I had to [...] There was a great piece in Saturday’s Daily Mail about fractional living with a good mention of various sharing arrangements. Two yours2share members were interviewed and it explained how private syndicates work and the benefits. I couldn’t have written it better if I’d tried. Many thanks to the two members, Graham Price and Bill Hosie: to [...] Most sharing arrangements quickly find they need some kind of reservation system so that people can easily see who and when partners are using the shared asset. If they have an arrangement where free time can be booked on a first come basis, then they need the system to enable them to make the reservation [...] Here is another great article from shareable.net (would you share a car with a stranger?) outlines some of the ground breaking car sharing schemes being tried out in the US (astonishing really, as prising the average American out of his SUV isn’t something most of us would attempt, let alone ask him to let someone [...] Do you share a house, car, motorhome, boat, aircraft dog, horse or anything else? I’m always looking for examples of sharing in action to blog about on yours2share and, if they are really good and two or more partners are willing to be interviewed, for case studies. If you are happy to tell me about [...] |
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