neigh*borrow premium | how it works

As you know, we have experimented with a new model recently and are now ready to roll it out in the United States. 

Here's the deal. You can now have ANY ITEM you can find online or think of in your head delivered to your door within 7 days absolutely free.

There are only 2 rules.

1. The item must cost less than $250 (and must be "reasonable" IE if you can find it on Amazon.com it's probably OK. 
2. You must return the item in 15 days (if someone is waiting for it, 30 days if not. We will contact you on the 10th day to let you know when to put it back in your mailbox. Return shipping label is included)

2.5 Don't drink the Fizzy Lifting Drink. 

Here is how it works. 

1. Request the item here
2. Confirm your email and mailing address. 
3. Receive the item in the mail in ten days or less with return shipping or pickup information. 

Examples:

1. Need the ubiquitous drill? just ask for it - 15 days is plenty of time to finish the project. 
2. Need a drone? just ask for it - 15 days is plenty of time to try it out and see if you want to buy one
3. Need a video camera? - 15 days is plenty of time to film your wedding and edit all the files (just ask Daniel )

Upgraded plans include faster delivery times, higher value items, and longer use. 

If you want to read more about why we "pivoted" to this model and the experiments that led us here... go here.

You need the hole, not the drill.

Borrowing (heavily) from the simplistic experiment, goingtorain.com, we are adding (another) experiment to neighborrow, drillavailable.neighborrow.com. We are building an inventory of every drill in America and creating a marketplace for short term use.

The page shows the real-time availability and current price for access to a power drill within 3 miles of your current location.

Rachel Botsman and Roo Rodgers point out in their book, "What's mine is yOURs" that the average drill is used between 7 and 13 minutes in its lifetime. They also guess there are around 50 million drills currently sitting in people's homes today.

That just doesn't make any sense! Even @ $50/drill (and power drills cost much more) people are paying $300 an HOUR just to own a drill. Silliness! We can do better than that. Let's see how many of them we can catalog (and help the other half of the households when they need a hole and not a drill).

Victor Papanec would be proud!