Any other auction venues other than Ebay?
oldhippie
Posts: 19
Just curious if anyone else out there uses any of the other sites out there other than Ebay ...... ioffer, wagglepop, OLA, ecrater .......etc?
0
Comments
Anyone who uses Wagglepop needs to be popped.. It is nothing more than an elaborate scam operation. The owner of the site was kicked off Ebay for selling fake autographs several years back. First time they tried to lauch all their Credit Card files got "hacked"
Getting tired of buying and selling on Ebay & was wondering if anyone used any of the other sites. I've been checking some of the other sites for a few months now and it doesn't seem like there is a lot of activity on any of the others ...yet.
Ebay's fee increase doesn't seem to make it worth the while selling the less expensive ones, especially when you tack on the Pay-Pal fees.
TOTAL ghost town.
You can read about sundry auction sites at
tuliptools.com
http://www.specialistauctions.com/categories.php?parent=8703
I would love to create a auction house just like eBay for Sports only if there are any interested people in financing the venture give me a ring. I think if it is done right and through my figures tracking eBay sales they make about $400+$500K a month on this one sector.
Bobby
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
It is an extremely complex undertaking.
One could easily spend $1M on advertising in the first year,
and STILL fail.
Buyers will ONLY go where the sellers are. The sellers will
not leave EBAY - in large numbers - for a start-up that is
run by anybody other than google.
Take a look at the WagglePop business model. The software
to set it up costs less than $1,000.00; you can buy it at
BestBuy. His 2006 relaunch quickly attracted almost 1000
sellers. In less than one-year, he was down to about 100.
Many sellers have been burned by jumping ship at EBAY,
and have ended up returning.
I am not saying it cannot be done, but it would require
investors that were willing to spend money for a long
time without any kind of reasonable assurance that
the money could be recouped.
kept an EBAY presence - the new site would fail quickly.
As long as sellers say, "I am going to try this new site,
but keep my EBAY presence until I see how it works,"
buyers will NEVER leave EBAY; there is no reason for
them to.
THAT is what has caused google to stay out of the mix.
//////////////////
EBAY is trading at a PE of 110. It is priced like a growth stock -
at $28 - when there are real questions as to whether it is EVEN
a value-stock. When it drops below $12, google or private money
will likely take it out.
I never naysay entrepreneurial ideas. But, if competing against
EBAY was a viable concept, folks richer than us would already
be succeeding at it.
Giovanni
I threw up a few cards on ecrater since its free just to test the traffic. Have some 74-75 ABA cards with prices I have no idea about. Searched the web and kind of split the difference on most. I'm a baseball collector so I really know nothing about the BB or Fb cards. We'll see what kind of traffic comes through in the next month or so.
Anyway .... Like to say thanks again to all the replies. Gives me more options to look through!
Have a great evening!
wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're
going to feel all day. "
~Frank Sinatra