A local auction marketplace built for the way people actually sell things. Your neighborhood. Your price. Zero strangers ghosting you at 8pm.
We're launching locally before we go anywhere else. Drop your email and we'll tell you the moment AuClose opens.
No spam. One email when we launch.
Craigslist is a group chat with no moderation. eBay ships to strangers across the country. We built something for your block.
The moment an auction closes, the winner's card is authorized and held. Not charged — held. Funds don't move until you physically verify the handoff in the app. A sale is a commitment, not a suggestion.
Drive-time discovery, not radius circles. Results show you what's 15 minutes away, not 50 miles. Every auction is a local transaction. No shipping. No strangers you'll never meet. Real people, real handoffs.
One developer. No venture capital. No ad network deciding what you see. No sponsored listings. No data harvesting. A marketplace built to be useful, not to be addictive.
Every buyer and seller completes government ID verification before bidding or listing. Anonymous strangers are a Craigslist problem. On AuClose, everyone has skin in the game.
Snap a few photos. Our Smart Listing Engine builds the description for you — guided questions, AI-assisted detail, no typing essays about a used blender. Sell things as fast as you want them gone.
Karma scores derived from real transaction events — not star ratings from anonymous strangers. Buyers and sellers who show up, follow through, and don't waste each other's time get rewarded for it.
Take a few photos. Tap through our guided listing questions. We build a detailed, accurate description for you. No wall of text required. Live in about 90 seconds.
Your item goes to a local auction. When a winner is declared, their payment is automatically authorized and held in escrow. No haggling. No backing out. A sale is a sale.
Meet up. Buyer inspects the item, shares a secure PIN. Seller enters it in the app. Both parties confirmed. Transaction locked. No chatter needed.
The moment the handoff is verified, escrowed funds transfer directly to your bank account. Transaction complete, fast, and final. That's it.
AuClose is a solo project. That means no board telling us to monetize your attention, no algorithm optimized for engagement over fairness, and no terms of service written by lawyers to protect the company instead of you.
The fee is simple: 10% of the final sale, taken at handoff. If the item doesn't sell, you pay nothing. No listing fees. No boosted visibility. No subscription required to be treated like a real seller.
Payment hold, not payment capture. The winner's card is authorized at auction close — no money moves until you physically hand off the item and confirm it in the app.
Government ID verification required before anyone bids or lists. Biometric verification handled by Stripe Identity — we never see your documents.
Karma penalties for flaking. Ghosting a handoff, arriving late, or trying to renegotiate after winning all hit your score. Bad actors lose access, not the other party.
No sponsored listings. What you see is sorted by relevance and proximity — not by who paid to be at the top.
Make It Right window. If payment fails, sellers get a 24-hour recovery window with a second chance offer before the item is relisted. No one disappears overnight.
A classification of household items existing in a state of quantum value; simultaneously too good for the curb, yet not valuable enough to warrant a 45-message exchange with a stranger who asks "is this still available?" and then vanishes into the ether.
Any object whose potential selling price is inversely proportional to the number of questions one will be asked about it, including its star sign, its feelings about humidity, and whether you'd be willing to trade it for a half-eaten sandwich and a promise.
The collective contents of a garage, a spare room, or "that one chair" which has developed its own gravitational pull.
"I'd love to park my car in the garage again, but it's completely filled with stuf like that old area rug and a perfectly fine lamp that doesn't match our new decor."
See also: Marketplace Fatigue, The Doom Pile, Eventual Donation, Procrasticlutter.
We're launching locally before anywhere else. Get early access before the public launch.
One email when we launch. No newsletter. No drip campaign.
No spam. Ever.