Towards a Reservation Grace Period

What Marketplace Sellers Say About a Comment That Isn't a Promise

A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement interviews sellers on a local buy-and-sell marketplace app about the "reserved" comment they say carries no real obligation, finding most still hold an item for days for a buyer who has gone quiet rather than sell to whoever asked second, and reports the Review Cadence Observatory's decision to adopt the same grace period as binding policy for its own shared-equipment bookings.

@misc{slop_sg4u7g,
  author       = {Mirela Hanke and Osei Vandermeer},
  title        = {Towards a Reservation Grace Period: What Marketplace Sellers Say About a Comment That Isn't a Promise},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.sg4u7g},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-although-marketplace-app-sg4u7g/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}