Airmule

Earn money while flying by selling excess luggage allowance.

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Earn money while flying by selling excess luggage allowance.

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Airmule is the world's largest on-board courier platform. Our travelers earn money during their flights by selling most or all of their excess luggage allowance.

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You are solely responsible of what you bring into a country. If this happens to contain illegal items - you're the one going to jail. Doesn't matter how good your screening is - it is never worth the risk.

Pros:

Cheap flights

Cons:

risk of going to jail for drug trafficking

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9yr ago

Airmule

Maker

Hi David! Valid concern, however our model prohibits that activity. We're not a platform that allows just anybody to ship through our service. Our shipping providers are those with a high-frequency need for daily/weekly/monthly international express shipping, nearly all of which happen to be in the e-commerce space. The items we receive are typically purchased online by our shipping partners' end users in the US or China.

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9yr ago

you nailed it

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9yr ago

Why is the last step needed? "Once you’ve landed, head to baggage claim and retrieve your Airmule Travel Box™. Drop off your shipment(s) to our Airmule staff right in the arrival airport. No extra trips." wouldn't there be an airmule staff there that handles that so I wouldn't have to worry about it?

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9yr ago

Airmule

Maker

@benbowdene Hey Ben. Airports only allow government authorities or airline/airport employees to pass behind Security/Customs. Even as a traveler, once you pass Security, you're unable to return. This why our staff are unable to retrieve the shipments from checked baggage claim for our couriers. Moreover, all on-board couriers, regardless of which on-board courier company they're working with, are subject to exit through Customs once landed in their arrival country.

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9yr ago

Corkdork

It’s so funny, because when working on Kindred we considered pivoting to exactly the premise of this app—it’s so hard to get proper Vegemite here in the States, and those German chocolates that I like. People had all kinds of things they wanted but couldn’t get where they lived. The idea is good, because it’s all about filling a market inefficiency by maximizing unused space. But the name...oh, the name...you must obviously be aware of its implication...and the fact that “mules”—the drug smuggling kind—are usually desperate victims of poverty, oppression, and manipulation, so I don’t really get trust from the name.

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9yr ago

Airmule

Maker

@rueter The name is definitely polarizing, we can admit. But in the defense of our founding team (many of whom were born in China), the term "mule" in China has a drastically different connotation than it does here in the United States. To be labeled a "mule" in China refers mainly to one's sturdiness, work ethic and durability.

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9yr ago

Hi, is there anyone that has used Airmule before?? I´m absolutely curious if it works and if it´s reliable..no ofense #Airmule

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6yr ago

OneUp

I recently heard Airmule on this podcast: http://extrapackofpeanuts.com/fl... Seems like a pretty awesome idea - make money by putting your extra luggage space to use. Hope to see them in more airports soon. They are currently operating in airports in the Bay area, LA, and NYC, for international flights to and from China.

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9yr ago

Airmule

Maker

@daviswbaer Thanks for the share!

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9yr ago

Would like to see more clearly the differentiation to another operator in the market; Grabr

Pros:

Good looking UI

Cons:

sign-up form has a bug: doesn't allow to proceed if there's a dot between first and last name

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9yr ago

Airmule

Maker

Hi Juho! The main differentiation between Airmule and Grabr is simple: the shipper vs. the shopper. We compete with each other in the same sense that a Toyota Prius competes with a Dodge Ram. Sure, a Ram and a Prius are vehicles that a person can purchase and drive, but they have two different target audiences that don't really overlap. Grabr's revenue model relies on the "shopper", i.e. the individual who's shopping for an item on Grabr either because it's too expensive to ship through traditional methods or it's too difficult to find in their local area (think culturally unique items). Users "shop" on Grabr by placing requests for items, then Grabr travelers may then accept these requests and earn a delivery fee for transporting them. We focus on the "shipper." We partner with shipping companies who have high frequency needs for international express shipping. These partners choose to ship with Airmule vs. FedEx, DHL or UPS because of our significantly cheaper cost and quicker delivery times. We then package these shipments from our partners into containers that travelers may courier along their flights and earn money for doing so.

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9yr ago