Writer looking for feedback on a no-fee auction site

vintagecollector

Happy Holidays,

I'm writing an article for Tuff Stuff's Sports Collectors Monthly about Wensy.com, a no-fee auction site that has been around about 18 months.

Wensy.com has several categories with Sports Memorabilia, with about 10,000 listings. the largest at the moment.

Are you aware of Wensy? Have you used the site?

Please send any feedback about the site you would like to have considered for publication to kozpro20@hotmail.com

Thanks to all for their assistance with past articles--Doug K.

StopYurWhining

smells like spam.
tastes like spam.

pandrews

i'd never heard of it.. looks interesting though..

StopYurWhining, quit trying to be the spam po,lice around here, you're ridiculous and ignorant..

Doug is legit..

grote15

Agree with PA. Stop Yur Whining ought to heed his own advice..

StopYurWhining

well, have either of you visited the site?
take a peek, its crap just I would have expected. Is there really a story here?

pandrews

<< <i>well, have either of you visited the site?
take a peek, its crap just I would have expected. Is there really a story here? >>



your 2nd post has nothing to do with your 1st post..

but to answer your question, the site looks fine to me..

http://www.wensy.com/

grote15

well, have either of you visited the site?
take a peek, its crap just I would have expected. Is there really a story here?

That's not for you to determine, though.

The OP is writing an article and simply asked for some feedback.. Who are you to decide that his article is meaningless? That seems rather presumptuous on your part, and rather arrogant, too.

storm888

Doug:

It is good that you and others are writing about alternate venues.

When the alexa.com numbers are viewed, it is pretty clear that only
ecrater.com is currently getting close to critical-mass traffic; and, they
still have a very long way to go.

Until sellers "pick one" site to be "the site," the tiny sites will continue
to better serve EBAY than they do their own registrants. It is in EBAY's
interest to keep the sellers divided and spread among a bunch of losing
ghost-town sites.

If all of the tiny sites were to consolidate, the pie would look a lot better.

What EBAY knows - and ecrater is starting to grasp - is that shoppers
have little reason to go to a single site to search for items. While EBAY
coninues to lie to sellers and investors about the source of its traffic,
it is clear to the experts where the bulk of traffic originates:

google searches.

ANY shopping site - and any small website - can get its share of traffic
and sales by simply making sure that its items are on page-one of google
search returns. Until wensy and the others can deliver such results, EBAY
will continue to laugh at the false hopes the tiny players raise.

As has been noted before, the real world needs lots of shopping centers
because it is big and spread out. The internet is compact and flat, and
only needs one or two mega-malls to serve the whole world. Building
many more strip malls on the internet is like building a 1000-mile row of
strip-malls between Miami and New York; it assures everybody gets to
buy something and that the sell-through-rates of each mall will be tiny.

I wish wensy and all the alts great luck, but luck is not a viable biznez-plan.


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A good test of a card selling site is to google:

psa pete rose

don drysdale card

yogi berra card

mickey mantle card

etc.

When both sponsored and natural returns start pointing away from EBAY and toward the subject
smaller sites, success will be closer.

StopYurWhining

im entitled to my opinion just as you are to yours.

Yep the site looks fantastic, a veritable bevy of auctions. Enjoy your glass of Kool-Aid and happy turkey day pages and pages of free listings, 80% of the completed auctions had no bids and about 15% of the rest had one bid. for .05 cent cards. a real winner! Ebay is shaking in its boots.

TheHun

Whining - pump the brakes on the negativity, dude

edit: you got me looking at it. Looks good enough to go back for a second look.

May take some time, but it could be a viable auction venue.

Estil

I gotta ask, how do they make money without at least some fees?

storm888

<< <i>I gotta ask, how do they make money without at least some fees? >>



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Posted: 7:11:45 am on 11/28/2008 Modified: Never


Ok, I have to reply.

The site is 100% paid in full for the next three and a half years. After this time, I can pay for the site on a monthly basis or pay for another 5 year deal. No big deal as if I can afford a 5 year deal the first time, I can afford a 5 year deal the second time. Best of all, the site will remain free.

When Wensy had 250 members and 1200 listings, I wanted to ensure people Wensy was not going to fold in two or three months and the site would remain free. Here we are one and a half years later, 3,500 members and 37,000 listings. The site has not folded and remain free.

I do collect a little money from the ads which are clicked on. I collect about 30 to 45 dollars a month. I am currently spending 100 dollars a month for advertising. On a good month, I spend about 55 dollars more in advertising than I collect.

So why do I do this? How do I make money? The truth is I have never made one penny. You see, it is not about making money. Wensy is about giving back to others. Just think if we all just gave back to one another and never asked for anything in return. That is what Wensy is about.

Hope this helps.


Darren Bock
Co-Founder

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Users can also make donations to help upgrade the site.

TheHun

that is about as clear and an honest answer as anyone can expect.

Good luck Darren