RadarLove
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posted on November 4, 2002 11:25:57 AM new
As posted by BVCS at BV
Posted 11/4/2002 10:53:21 AM
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Valued Members,
Bidville will be hosting its annual Holiday Sale from November 15th through November 30th.
To get your items included in the sale, please enter the phrase "$hs" in your auction title. A list of participating sellers will be automatically generated and posted for all members to view.
We will be sending an email to all members notifying them of the sale dates and details.
Thanks for continuing to grow with us.
Bryan
Bidville Administrator
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blairwitch
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posted on November 4, 2002 01:16:51 PM new
Here is the data for the sale. There are items already listed.
TOTAL ITEMS- 142
TOTAL BIDS- 0
BID RATE- 0%
I will update the numbers every other day.
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tooltimes
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posted on November 4, 2002 05:46:53 PM new
Rules and common courtesy are often ignored by the overzealous BV sellers.
Now the sellers can sell to each other once again in a sanctioned sale. 
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RadarLove
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posted on November 5, 2002 09:54:48 PM new
UPDATE
Posted 11/5/2002 1:21:45 PM
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Valued Members,
As announced yesterday, the annual Holiday Sale will begin November 15th and finish on November 30th. Banners will be posted on November 15th with special links throughout the site. In the meantime, we encourage you to begin listing your items in preparation for the sale.
Please be aware that any auction scheduled to close after November 30th will be automatically closed on the 30th. In addition, there should be no reserve prices on Holiday Sale items.
Thanks for continuing to grow with us.
Bryan
Bidville Administrator
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yellowbud
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posted on November 15, 2002 02:38:13 PM new
The sale has started, and seems to be going very well for many sellers. I've already caught a few great Holiday bargains!
If you haven't checked out it, you should! 
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bearmom
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posted on November 15, 2002 06:35:44 PM new
Once again, Blairwitch, your figures are easily disproved. I have no idea how many items are listed on the sale, but I know the bids are more than zero! I sent off three checks today for sale items I bought with the 'Take it' feature! And have 21 outstanding bids. If you're going to invent stats, try to make them semi-plausible.
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blairwitch
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posted on November 15, 2002 06:41:43 PM new
The sell-thru rate as of today is 1.1%
With no outside advertising so far the STR is basically the same site wide.
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tooltimes
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posted on November 15, 2002 07:48:17 PM new
This BV sale like all other BV sales before it is another 'BV sellers selling $1 auction items to other BV sellers' sale.
Whoopie! I got 7 bids so now I can bid on 7 auctions!
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yellowbud
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posted on November 20, 2002 05:20:24 PM new
Tooltimes, please post your facts and data that prove your above statement. I would love to see that.
Even if that were the case, although most intelligent people know that it isn't, one still has to wonder why this disturbs you so much.
Hypothetical question:
If your neighbor stuck a sign on the corner, had a yard sale, sold all of his belongings to other neighbors for a dime each, and you knew you could have placed an ad in the newspaper, and sold his belongings to a wider group of customers, for much more money, would you obsess this much over it? Or would you just decide that it was "his business", not yours, and go on about your life?
Really makes one wonder...
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tooltimes
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posted on November 20, 2002 08:46:22 PM new
Are you saying "leave the retards alone?".
You know in your heart that the average thing that sells during a BV sales is only a buck or two. Look at the closed auctions.
The postal raise last June 30th, especially the Priority Mail new structure, put a definite crimp in BV's sales. "Buy an item for a buck or two and pays $5 for shipping?".
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yellowbud
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posted on November 21, 2002 06:44:42 AM new
Tooltimes, let's try this again, as "adults". Try to let the name calling go for a minute, and concentrate on answering the "grown up" questions that were posed to you.
You lost your focus for a minute, but I know you can do it...
But, then again, maybe not...
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tooltimes
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posted on November 21, 2002 02:56:40 PM new
I went to the BV search engine and in the search for box I entered $hs and then clicked on the Closed Items (From past 30 days) radio button.
2,027 hits. At a glance of 5 or 6 pages it only looks like 3% or 4% closed with a bid ( not counting possible deadbeat buyers ). I saw items as low as 55 cents and a few with much higher prices. I'd estimate the average item sold at $5.
That's not a very spectacular sell rate or sale price average. ( perhaps double the BV average ) A ville is a little town and those are little amounts. 
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yellowbud
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posted on November 22, 2002 04:58:19 AM new
Well, we all know how viable those "at a glance" stats are.
Now, back to the questions at hand...is there some reason you can't answer them? I'm sure that while you were there, going to all that trouble to do "your" stats, you counted the amount of $1.00 items that were sold exclusively to other BV sellers, so that you could back up your claims, right?
And you seem to be avoiding my hypothetical question altogether. What's up with that?
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tooltimes
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posted on November 22, 2002 08:52:29 AM new
To be perfectly honest, BV isn't worth more than a passing glance. Read a few the feedbacks and you will see a large percentage of the buyers/sellers are the same ones over and over.
You can call it a closed circle or a leper colony or whatever you want.
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yellowbud
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posted on November 22, 2002 10:54:21 AM new
Now I'm really confused. If you believe the site is not worth "more than a passing glance", why would you be so obsessed with it?
(Still waiting for an answer to that hypothetical question...) It's really not a tough one.
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blairwitch
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posted on November 22, 2002 01:24:02 PM new
Tooltimes as of today the bid rate is 2.8% which is pathetic, but no shock. The average ending price for sale items is around $3.00
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tooltimes
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posted on November 22, 2002 02:21:35 PM new
That is a pathetic sale rate. Too many sales can really water down the soup.
The special sales were the one redeeming feature at BV for many of the stallwart sellers there. Now that the sales are much different from the no sale periods it could mean some sellers will throw in the $10/yr towel and leave BV.
The only thing in BV's favor is what the BV management duo must say behind closed doors at Grace Avenue --- " Where the hell else are they gonna go? ".
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blairwitch
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posted on November 22, 2002 06:44:24 PM new
Tooltimes did you see bidville's main page? It looks like they are taking the first step of pushing the sports cards. I have said for sometime they should become a sport niche site.
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tooltimes
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posted on November 23, 2002 12:19:33 AM new
I saw the new "coming soon" sports sections for search. I remember seeing that same "coming soon" sign on the description search of the search engine for months before they replaced it with "(Description Search unavailable.) "
My first thought was that the search engine will never be able to handle the 700,000 listings but seeing the first 2,000 listings is better than nothing.
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