Useful Auction Sites To Visit Over The Holiday Period

27 Dec

Posted by Mark Kenny as eBay Related, Fun

This is just a brief summary of a few sites I found it worthy to mention. Have a great & relaxing Christmas.

Alternative Auction Sites

AuctionAir is a site I mentioned at AuctionCUT last March. It launched in 2001 and is a former project of British Airways. Unlike eBay, AuctionAir uses sealed bidding meaning you can not see how much other users are bidding completely eliminating the need to get involved in a bidding war. According to their website 1 in 7 users who placed a bid last year won an auction.

Telebid

A different auction model again, TeleBid offers mostly high value electrical items such as iPods, laptops and mobile phones all starting at 10p. It costs 50p to place a bid on any item, and with each bid placed the price of the auction increases by 7 or 10p. It does look like a fun site, but I imagine it’s easy to get carried away.

Competition

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10 Responses

Carla

February 23rd, 2008 at 5:12 pm
1

I like the feel of auction air but it’s a shame that individuals can not sell on it. This would massivelyincrease the popularity of the site.
Scooter Review

June 4th, 2008 at 7:43 pm
2

Just an FYI but the post before mine is messing up your formatting.

BTY – Was looking for Scooter Reviews on auction sites and saw your list.
Jay

June 13th, 2008 at 1:41 am
3

I agree about the Gambling and Not auction point.

This is clearly not an auction site and to actually win an item you have to be prepared to spend some money with the risk of losing everything.

I have watched the workings of this site for some time and have noticed that the so called BidButler system wins 9 times out of 10 which forces me to question why people still use Single bids against a BidButler as again 99% of the time you will just end up wasting the single bid.

Personally i’m suprised how far and how much people will spend to get a “bargain”.

Example:

Telebid offers FreeBid vouchers in their “Auction” in increments of 50, 150 and 300 FreeBids.

I watched an “Auction” for 300 FreeBids and when it ended, suprise suprise. The person who used the BidButler won.

Now thats fine except for the fact that a 300 Bid voucher normally retails at £150 and the person who won this “Auction” paid over £200 in Bids.

Now to work this out we have to see how much the Voucher went for. £189 was the finishing bid i think.

£189 / 7 (price the item increases each time a bid is placed) = 2700 Bids placed.

2700 bids at 50p a bid = £1350 from all the people who bid in this “Auction”.

So thats £1200 profit to Telebid for “Auctioning” an item instead of just selling it for the normal price.

£200 of bids from the winner is 400 bids so the other hard to comprehend thing from this is why would a person bid for 300 FreeBids with 400 of their Paid Bids because at the end of the day they have lost £50 (100bids).

Now i dont really know if there are “insiders” working for telebid, just bidding to keep the single bidders bidding which of course is illegal but what i do know is that if your looking for a bargain then Telebid is definately not the site for that.

However if you have money to burn and are a compulsive gambler then telebid is a great way to lose a LOT of money very quickly with nothing to show for it.

I hope this review helps.
Mark Kenny

June 16th, 2008 at 6:25 am
4

Sure does Jay, Thanks for your comments
Thomas

August 18th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
5

Saosh.co.uk auction site. Hi I’ve just come across this auction website. I think it might be quite new, as there is not much listed on there at the moment. However, I there is no membership fees, as with some of the other sites. All auction listings for; Standard, Buy it now or Dutch auction are all FREE too. They also have the option for Free autorelist as well. The only downside I have seen is the 5% auction final fee you have to pay them. A small price to pay! Ebay charge a minimum 0.25p + 7.5% fees + any additional on text, photo’s etc. This has got to be worth a try.
Go back to the good old days of auction selling.
Alex

August 26th, 2008 at 11:13 am
6

From my own experience – i think it is hard to make money on other auctions (beside eBay) as they have very low volume of traffic
toni

October 2nd, 2008 at 12:26 am
7

Thank you for this great list, very useful to Ebayer!
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March 12th, 2009 at 7:18 pm
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