posted on October 4, 2000 06:03:01 PM
I was just curious if anybody had a web site to go along with their auction biz? If so was it successful? I wouldn't mind seeing some sites it will give you a chance to send out a promo. I'm considering making my own. Interesting topic in my mind. thanks!
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posted on October 4, 2000 07:11:13 PM
I have my own domain name but I at this time dont sell my Items on it I just link people to my auctions from there.
since I have a lot of Item I certinlly could offer Items on my website and I certinly have the abilty and knowlege to do it.
the time involed is alot though I have had my own website since 94 and its a full time job just keeping it running and new forget the hours daily to hold everyones interest and the comunity feel you must have to keep them returning Just selling something wont do it.
you need something more like a chat room or message board such as this one here and that takes time to and what you will find when you start things like a message board is that you cant depend on friends to run it for you .
I dont want to dicourage you before you try but I would recommend you put togeather a group of interested people to share the load who share a interst in the sales there or the time the website take will cause your auction to suffer and the time auctions takes will cause your site to suffer also sleep will surffer as well as your day job
funny thing about business the more you can do the better it will be for you. but when the business moves to many ways it tends to lose focus and income.
best kind of a site one single person could do would have pictures and detailed descriptions of each item with a link to the auction site to bid and a link from the auction to the website for more details this would in some ways save you fees in the auctions to have your own gallery and featured area on your own web site.
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posted on October 4, 2000 07:41:52 PM
Now that there are so many payment options I am making my own web site but it is really tough because I don't have anyone who can help me learn how to do it. I have found these supposed generators that you put all the pieces in and it is supposed to generate the hypertext from that are crap. You better learn how to write in the naked hypertext so you understand what is happening when you want to change or tweek something, or when it does not work correctly.
I can write a functioning page but I want tastefull proportions, fonts, layout and nice custom colors. Some of the best tutorials I have seen yet were written by an 11 year old girl to help her friends at school get their pages to look "cool". Does that tell you were I am?
That is corect I dont care if you pay $200 for microsoft front page if you Dont know a bit more then basic Html enough to write and Design a web page with note pad free hand your between a rock and a hard place.
here is what you do start with the computer basics and work your way up work putting togeather macros and and makeing templet for your microsoft office or works
go to personal web sites and source them look at the source code and at the web site learn what each tag does what effect each has.
go to your local college take a feww weeks in night class on basic HTML.
another really good way to learn how this programing works and web servers is frist hand go out find your self an old 66 or 100 MHZ computer for a few dollars with at leat a 800 meg HD and install linux not a new version an older on like red hat 5.0 on it once most the Icons and click and point is gone to logon line and get email are gone your computer savay curve will rise fast, with linux you can actually not only make and learn html but can learn what it take to put togeather a whole site and servers.
posted on October 4, 2000 08:18:02 PM
After years(3) of owning my own domains (4)
and working eBay, Yahoo, Amazon, etc, and linking from the websites to the auctions and from the auctions to the websites, I think I may have made $1000.00 total selling from the website/s Period..!!!
Here is the problem as I see it...
Who is xxxx.com..???
No credibility...
The person looking at your fantastic stuff has no clue as to who you are, who your company is, will you ship the goods if they order and so on...
The ONLY reason eBay and Yahoo and Amazon and
any of the other WELL known names in the online auction business work is because the company(name and business) has credibility...
The bidders totally believes they are dealing with eBay and NOT Joe Blow USA...(I mean after all, they wouldn't be allowed to sell on eBay if they were not legit)
One of the other problems is website traffic...Visitors...Potential buyers, etc...
There are ONLY 12 major search engines that surfers use...Those 12 get 90% of all search requests...Now, the search submission people will tell you you need to be in the top 10 to 20 of the search listings...Now, that is just absolutely impossible..!!! There are 40,000,000(40 million) business websites...5000 sell widgets(anything common) How in heck can all 5000 be listed in the top 20..??? DUHHH...
In a nutshell, you will NOT and I stress... will NOT... get enough traffic to visit your website to buy a 6 pack of Coke in a year..!!!
There is no solution(at least not that I have found)if someone knows how to make it work, share it with us please...
I wish you luck...
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posted on October 4, 2000 08:25:36 PM
I think your success in using a web site to sell your stock will depend on what you are selling.
I sell mainly from my web site. I am listed with web rings (with others who sell this type of collectible) and search engines.
I run an eBay ad at least once a week with a link to my site. As long as you do not offer the same items at less than your starting bid at eBay, it's not a problem.
I don't have any extras, just pictures of what I sell, detailed descriptions, price, and contact information. I make much more money from each item selling them from my site than I would make at eBay selling the same exact thing.
The items I list at eBay just draw more traffic to my site, so I sacrifice a little profit on those items.
posted on October 4, 2000 08:49:07 PM
Someone mentioned the other day that we should see a net sales model of the file sharing
software like gnutellla pretty soon. Now that might just be a way to make an end run around eBay and the search engines. What I wonder is if the "horizen" that limits your sharing partners to about 10,000 other users will mean I would not get orders from Australia/Singapore/England/Kwajalein/japan
like I do now? I have DSL so I could handle quite a few inquiries.
posted on October 4, 2000 10:30:40 PM
This is some good info please keep posting guys. I know some of you don't want to say your sites too but it would help. thanks
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