ONLINE1
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posted on February 11, 2003 11:06:11 AM new
Well folks, I have come to the conclusion that biville is and always will be a waste of time... I have been posting auctions on bidville off and on for the past 3 years, with 1 sale to show for it....
3 Months ago I decided to give bidville a real chance. So I listed hundreds of items that sell well on Ebay and Yahoo. Still nothing.... I then spent a month and $600.00 in credits and used them for listing upgrades including the front page still nothing.... I then took it a step further I took 50 items That sell well on ebay & Yahoo I then put a buy it now price of $1.00 below my cost on these items and had them relist for a month straight. 1 Sale.. I think if you want to sell knitting patterns or sports cards for a $1.00 then it is a good site. But for me or any serious seller it is a WASTE OF TIME..
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dadofstickboy
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posted on February 11, 2003 11:37:30 AM new
I started selling on Bidville when it was Auxpal.
Sales were great sold more in a month then I sold on Yahoo in 2 years.
Then they changed the name, and other things and it went down hill fast.
Haven't listed in a long time and I'm sure I won't any time soon.
I's a shame it really started out as a promising sit!
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canvid13
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posted on February 11, 2003 12:07:10 PM new
Hey Online,
You just registered on February 8 to post this?
You aren't related to robertsmithson by any chance, are you? 
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ONLINE1
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posted on February 11, 2003 12:54:58 PM new
NO, I have visited this site daily in the past year. I have never posted a message and when it was time to get something off my chest, I thought it might be a good idea to use a different user name. My other user name links me with my auction user names...
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ONLINE1
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posted on February 11, 2003 12:56:05 PM new
who is this robertsmithson person?
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tomwiii
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posted on February 11, 2003 01:05:18 PM new
he's the son of robert smith?
Ralphie loves Mr Blonde:
"Are you gonna bark all day little doggie, or are you gonna bite?"
http://tinyurl.com/5duz
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BoneCollector
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posted on February 11, 2003 02:21:37 PM new
If you're leaving Bidville now you're a bigger fool than Robertsmithson. Bidville is getting much needed exposure from Froogle. People who never heard of Bidville before are finding us.
It seems like an odd time to throw in the towel at a site where it costs you nothing to list or sell at. A savvy auctioneer would leave a few take it auctions running just to get the Froogle exposure. Bidville allows you to link to other sites in legitimate auctions. The way I see it, that alone is worth the cost of verification.
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ONLINE1
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posted on February 11, 2003 02:30:10 PM new
Your right. I will be leaving up some auctions. Don't get me wrong I hope bidville is able to make a go of it.. Yahoo is dead and Ebay are the big guys but there is very little profit with them due to the fees....
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canvid13
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posted on February 11, 2003 04:51:48 PM new
It just seems a bit odd ONLINE1 that you CC registered on a site to complaint about Bidville. It's fits RSS MO.
Good luck to your future sales...
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ONLINE1
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posted on February 11, 2003 07:41:30 PM new
OK, This smith guys seems to bother you guys. I'M leaving, you will not see me post here again. with the exception of if and when bidville takes off. I will be back to say you were right. How can I see old posts about this smith guy, I want to see why every one likes him so much.....
I only came here to see what others thought of bidville as I do not want to waste any more time if a site is never going to make it. Posting auctions and running my retail store is my business not a hobby. A couple of years ago I used to post messages here using my ebay on line name. Well it took 6 months of not posting messages to get the nimwits from bidding on my auctions. Every time I would post a comment, bidding on my auctions whent up but so did the dead beats....
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reality1
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posted on February 11, 2003 09:35:17 PM new
ONLINE
Shame on you. It took you this long to figure out BV is a waste of time. Other than for a couple of diehard cheerleaders I thing that fact has been established a long time now. Nevermind Canvid he has his own little waste of time in cyber space and is a tad bitter. LOL
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emak
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posted on February 12, 2003 09:24:51 AM new
Reality - and yet you continue to waste your time reading the site and posting here about what a waste of time it is.
How ironic.
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canvid13
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posted on February 12, 2003 10:44:26 AM new
Yes isn't it? And Glen, I'm not bitter at all.
Ya takes yer chances you know...
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reality1
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posted on February 12, 2003 03:24:54 PM new
Emak
You are ASSuming that I read the BV boards. Reading that gibberish on the BV forums is a bigger waste of time than trying to sell items that cost more than a dollar. So I do nether!
Good grief Jamie what have you been taking. You have'nt been yourself lately.?
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emak
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posted on February 13, 2003 05:49:53 AM new
My mistake - you must just ASSume what goes on there these days based on what other objective and unbiased posters tell you.
I guess the only time you waste then is constantly checking for new Bidville threads so you can slam your 2 cents in. Of course we all now know that your opinions about BV are worthless since you never 'waste' your time there.
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BoneCollector
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posted on February 13, 2003 08:30:52 AM new
Good point.
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ONLINE1
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posted on February 22, 2003 02:06:29 PM new
Here is my bidville update. I was wrong regarding bidville sales, since I listed my last message I have had 8 sales. That's the good news, now for the bad news. Of those 8 sales I have had exactly 1 customer pay. The other 7 customers will not even reply to emails... NICE SITE, to bad i'm not selling 5 cent sports cards or 25 cent bundles of yarn....
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BoneCollector
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posted on February 22, 2003 04:23:37 PM new
11 days isn't a very long turnaround time. Maybe you're jumping the gun again.
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stonecold613
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posted on February 22, 2003 09:54:35 PM new
Bidville = Deadbeatville
Bidville = Wasteoftimeville
Bidville = only a loser would bother listing with that site
Bidville is dead
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BoneCollector
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posted on February 22, 2003 10:14:33 PM new
If Bidville isn't working for you it's possible you just need to brush up on your selling skills.
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stopwhining
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posted on February 23, 2003 07:17:16 AM new
i went browsing on epier and i emailed a few sellers,only one responded.
then i bidded and won a few items,only one seller contacted me.
so???
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blairwitch
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posted on February 23, 2003 03:56:10 PM new
stonecold613 the bidrate is currently 0.4-0.6% which isnt good. Even froogle doesnt want their 600,000+ fixed priced listings. 
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BoneCollector
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posted on February 23, 2003 04:36:25 PM new
That's just utter bs. Let's see the documentation supporting that ridiculous comment. Until you can provide something from Froogle you'll be nothing but a ridiculous comment maker
[ edited by BoneCollector on Feb 23, 2003 04:37 PM ]
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yellowbud
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posted on February 25, 2003 05:36:20 AM new
Not to worry, Bonecollector. BW's fantasized "information" stopped being credible to most folks long ago.
Her agenda is showing, and she must lack the skills to "pin it up". 
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uaru
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posted on February 26, 2003 07:32:28 AM new
If Bidville isn't working for you it's possible you just need to brush up on your selling skills.
Here's another possibility. If you can sell on Bidville you could sell snow to an Eskimo.
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blairwitch
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posted on February 26, 2003 10:10:56 AM new
Good Point!
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replaymedia
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posted on February 26, 2003 10:35:37 AM new
Why don't we quit picking on these worthless sites and actually post some auctions somewhere?
I know *I* spend entirely too much time reading these boards!
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colin
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posted on March 2, 2003 06:38:43 AM new
Hee's some stats on Bidville. I haven't used it as yet but it's got to be better than Yahoo.
[url]http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?q=bidville&p=Det_W_g_40_M1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bidville.com%2F[url]
amen,
Reverend Colin
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bigcitycollectables
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posted on March 7, 2003 12:12:50 PM new
How did Ebay get to be so big?Didnt Ebay Start out as a worthless site also?
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ONLINE1
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posted on March 16, 2003 10:19:53 PM new
Here's the tale of the tape. In the past 6 weeks I have sold 16 items on bidville. I have had 1 bidder pay, enough said. I have pulled all my listings and closed my account.. Good luck with this site..
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