posted on May 14, 2003 12:05:13 AM new
If you are into sports trading cards and/or memorabilia, consider looking at:
www.Strictlybids.com
I think it has great potential as an alternative site to buy and/or sell sports auction items. Thanks for reading and have a great day!
[ edited by ksgsportscards on May 14, 2003 12:17 AM ]
posted on May 14, 2003 08:44:26 AM new
Good luck on the sports niche auction site. That seems to be a natural niche market that has not been seriously attempted yet. Beckett does seem to have a strong hold on the market with their website though.
posted on May 16, 2003 08:29:06 AM new
Good luck there, but you shouldn't mislead us serious collectors by calling it a sports site. It is a sports card site. Real sports items will get over run by worthless sports cards. There is a site that already has ruined the true sports collectable. It is called bidville.
posted on May 16, 2003 09:30:57 AM new
I think it is ebay and not Bidville that ruined the true sports collectible market. ( and most other markets as well ) At least BV and other sites like BV give sellers a place to try to sell their items without ebay or Yahoo insertion fees eating them alive.
One major problem with that type of BV or ioffer or any other non-insertion fee site is that there is little incentive to set the price of their items low or ebay-like. On ebay the seller must price to sell or pay the insertion fee for nothing. On most of other sites the sellers can wait for a longshot buyer as it costs nothing to list. You often here statements like I make 90% of my sales on ebay but I'm content to pick up a few sales here and there on the lesser sites.
posted on May 16, 2003 09:34:32 AM new
stonecold613 - You are certainly welcome to list sports items of any kind on there. I apologize for insulting you, I just felt sports auction site pretty much describes what it could be. If it is a total failure, that is ok with me as I do not run the site. However, I would certainly think it would be great to have a giant "sports" only auction site...sportscards included. So far, for me, it has been more successful than I would of guessed. I am just testing out different sites to accompany ebay sales and the owner of this site is a hard worker and a nice guy to deal with. Besides ebay, no other site has gone anywhere, but I refuse to give up. A niche could be the way it happens?
If you could give examples of sports items you had in mind, I am willing to try listing something more along those lines...or you can list your extras...or maybe someone else reading this will. Again, it was not my intent to insult anyone. Sorry.
