Comments on: Useful Auction Sites To Visit Over The Holiday Period http://www.Mark-Kenny.com/useful-auction-sites-to-visit-over-the-holiday-period/ Ebay News, Articles, and Tips Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:43:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: toni http://www.Mark-Kenny.com/useful-auction-sites-to-visit-over-the-holiday-period/#comment-29630 toni Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:26:20 +0000 http://www.Mark-Kenny.com/useful-auction-sites-to-visit-over-the-holiday-period/#comment-29630 Thank you for this great list, very useful to Ebayer! Thank you for this great list, very useful to Ebayer!

]]> By: Alex http://www.Mark-Kenny.com/useful-auction-sites-to-visit-over-the-holiday-period/#comment-28112 Alex Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:13:23 +0000 http://www.Mark-Kenny.com/useful-auction-sites-to-visit-over-the-holiday-period/#comment-28112 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 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

]]> By: Thomas http://www.Mark-Kenny.com/useful-auction-sites-to-visit-over-the-holiday-period/#comment-27836 Thomas Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:56:39 +0000 http://www.Mark-Kenny.com/useful-auction-sites-to-visit-over-the-holiday-period/#comment-27836 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. 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.

]]> By: Mark Kenny http://www.Mark-Kenny.com/useful-auction-sites-to-visit-over-the-holiday-period/#comment-25688 Mark Kenny Mon, 16 Jun 2008 05:25:29 +0000 http://www.Mark-Kenny.com/useful-auction-sites-to-visit-over-the-holiday-period/#comment-25688 Sure does Jay, Thanks for your comments :) Sure does Jay, Thanks for your comments :)

]]> By: Jay http://www.Mark-Kenny.com/useful-auction-sites-to-visit-over-the-holiday-period/#comment-25570 Jay Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:41:25 +0000 http://www.Mark-Kenny.com/useful-auction-sites-to-visit-over-the-holiday-period/#comment-25570 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. 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.

]]> By: Scooter Review http://www.Mark-Kenny.com/useful-auction-sites-to-visit-over-the-holiday-period/#comment-25353 Scooter Review Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:43:03 +0000 http://www.Mark-Kenny.com/useful-auction-sites-to-visit-over-the-holiday-period/#comment-25353 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. 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.

]]> By: Carla http://www.Mark-Kenny.com/useful-auction-sites-to-visit-over-the-holiday-period/#comment-15670 Carla Sat, 23 Feb 2008 16:12:45 +0000 http://www.Mark-Kenny.com/useful-auction-sites-to-visit-over-the-holiday-period/#comment-15670 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. 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.

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