The Final Stretch

We made it folks.
We are on the verge of Augie Marketplace's great release. Like the monumental white whale emerging from the depths of the ocean to face Captain Ahab in one final epic confrontation, Team Bandicoot is stringing up their harpoons for the last push towards glory.

Finally a way to get your used textbooks and school supplies out of your basement. Glory has never had a more accurate description.

Team Bandicoot has been burning the midnight oil (not as efficient as electricity, but it makes us feel like Davinci) to get this project where it needs to be by the impending release date. Which, as it stands now, is......

(Dramatic beat. Confetti cannon)

ON SUNDAY! AT 5 PM!

When you're finished applauding in front of you computer, take moment to look back on the last ten weeks. At one time, you had no idea receiving an adequate amount of compensation for your used college essentials was a remote possibility. And yet there you sit, a new person/google robot fishing for metadata, staring in awe at your future. A future in which you have several hundred bucks in your pocket for used textbooks, from someone you like, trust, and are happy to help out, instead of 90 cents and a smirk from a book exchange employee.

Revel in it.

Now back to business.

You know the functionality and details surrounding Augie Marketplace at this point, so let me give you the thick of it:

'Twill be epic. And I don't use language like that lightly.

You'll be seeing us and our app in three days time. Mark your calendars and buckle up. It's been swell having such an absolutely overwhelming amount of support for this project since the beginning and we cannot wait to see how people feel about the results.

Cheers,

Keenan

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