For owners

Lend the box in your shed

A roof box comes off the car after the holiday and sits on a shelf for the guts of a year. Somebody a few miles away is weighing up buying one for a ski trip in February. Lend yours and they don't have to.

What happens

1. You list it — a photo, which bars it fits, your daily rate and the deposit you'd want.
2. Somebody asks for it on set dates. Nothing is booked until you say yes.
3. You approve or decline. It's your box, and no is a complete answer.
4. You hand it over in person and take the deposit directly. No courier, no posting anything.
5. They bring it back and you both leave a review.

What a listing shows a stranger

• Public: the box and its photos, your town, your rate, your first name.
• Never public: your surname, your email, your Eircode.

Your Eircode goes to the person you've approved, not to the listing page.

Before you lend a €500 box

BoxShare introduces two neighbours and keeps the dates straight. It never holds the money and never takes a cut of it — which also means there's no escrow, no insurance, no fit guarantee and no dispute service. That's deliberate rather than an oversight: it's the same shape as lending a trailer to someone down the road. Deposits, handover and safety spells it out, including checking your own home or motor policy first.