Auctions8 is great too & there are no fees at all!

petticoatjunction wrote (View Post): › Auctions8 is great too & there are no fees at all!

Thats great but just wondering how do they make a living ... and how do they pay the servers etc ... our Fees are very low Lynik

Just a "buyer thought". If one only lists a few things, one may miss out on sales, especially where shipping cost may be an important factor. It has happened that someone has something I want, and I have added other things they have that I was not specifically looking for just because of the combined shipping factor (though I gotta like the extras, of course).

It has happened that more than one seller has something I want (especially books, or gently used kids clothes) and even though the item I was looking for is more expensive, the seller that has the rest of a set (book series, outfits) will end up with the sale because of, again, the cost of shipping. Sometimes I will not buy at all if I can only find the one item and nothing that "goes with it".

So... if other buyers think as I do... the more you list of (especially) related items and offer combined shipping, the more likely you are to make a sale. I think some call this "upselling". I call it finding the whole set in one fell swoop. Hope this helps someone. (especially me )

petticoatjunction wrote (View Post): › Lynik, Auction8.com[/google] is a multifaceted site with multiple owners so there are significant resources. It is also not there for the owners to get rich ripping off the members. It is the only site I have ever heard of that's willing to give 50% of the profits to charity so people can be helped. Lots of people have jumped on the bandwagon claiming to be ebay alternatives. Unfortunately, most won't last long. Sellers are tired of being fleeced & working long hours to make someone else wealthy.

Sorry I did not mean any offence at all it was just a question ... we are not claiming to be a Ebay alternative and have no intentions of fleecing any one ... I meant no harm by my question sorry if I offended anyone ... anyone who helps Charitys I think that is good.Lynik

petticoatjunction wrote (View Post): › No problem, when I looked at your site I thought I saw a banner in the upper right hand corner saying ebay alternative. You did very well to get 7 sales out of 17 members.

Hi, Yes we do have a Banner with Ebay Alternatives sorry again got a bit concerned last night that you got offend by my previous question , what I meant was we do not claim to be another Ebay. Nor are we saying we are taking Ebay on or anything like that.
We now have 21 members , thank you for the congratulations on our Sales. Lynik.

May I ask, how long have you been at Ebid, and how many auctions have you listed? do you have a store set up there?

Obviously it is going to take a lot of work to start fresh at a new auction site.. the problem is, sellers that have been selling on Greedbay for a long time, very easily forget how hard it was, and how long it took them to make their first sales.. I'd been at Fleabay since early '00.. I started selling shortly after (my sizable coin collection at the time..) and It took me exactly 48 days before making my first sale there, meanwhile I'd been listing at Yahoo auctions , and I'd been selling steadily , but I just was not getting good bids there..

but I stuck with FeeBay, and currently have 4.7 or better DSR's (even shipping) closing in on 400 100% positive feedback... and I'm still moving everything to Ebid myself.. and completely abandoning NaziBay once I've done that.. I insert a flyer into every package I ship, advertising that I'm moving all my auctions to ebid.. asking buyers to go visit .. it is the one thing SnoopBay cant stop me from doing.. Will also be contacting every buyer in my list on PayPal within the last 60 days or so, notifying them of the same..
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I have been on Ebid since May of this year. I have listed 8 to 10 things since then and no sales. That was the reason I took some of them and moved them to Ebay last Thurs. I already have bids on 2 of my items. (1 was within 20 mins of listing.)

I really don't want to list things for months hoping for a sale. Ebay is expensive but free listings are only good if you sell.

I might just try to hang with Ebay to see how some of these other sites develop. It is too much work to keep changing sites hoping for a sale.

I haven't been selling for long so I haven't built up a list of buyers. I sell one of a kind things so I don't really have a lot of repeat buyers. I thought about sending info to my more recent buyers but I was afraid that it is overstepping my boundaries.

Some people don't like unasked for messages from others. I ran into that several times so I am a not sure I want to do that.

greedygert wrote (View Post): › I was just checking out some sites and really like the concept behind iOffer.com. I like the idea of being able to negotiate a price. For what I sell, they had a pretty decent list category. In fact, I found something on there that I might send an offer for... Also, I sell video games and was looking at OnlineAuction.com and there wasn't even a category for video games. Don't know if this would be to my advantage or not. Will have to try it out and see

hi greedygert have you tried www.gamebidder.co.uk this is just for gaming and they give you 30 days free listing
the fees are alot cheaper then ebay

If it hasn't already been submitted, I would like to add:

http://www.flippid.com

All Free.

Decent and simple format.

.CVS and Excel datafeed imports.

feebay feedback imports.

-Tom

I looked thru the list and didn't see my site!
We are a fast growing auction site. We are offering a great sign up promotion that we call 'founding members'.
This allows the new member life time free auctions.
Once you upload an auction (before Jan.1,2009, 12:01am) you are automatically eligable for life time free auctions as a founding member.

Check our site for full details. myejar.com

weelndln (former ebay)

thanks for the list

I think http://www.onlineauctionexchange.com should be added to the list as well.

No Listing Fees
Online Stores Starting At 99cents a month
Virtually no advertisement (Not seen to often)
Plus much more

Thanks
Paul