AuctionAce
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posted on September 1, 2003 12:15:06 PM
I thought the site was gone but must be wrong. That makes it a competitor of ioffer ( BTW, the ioffer site has been inacessible all day )
The problem with these sites are the large number of lowball offers or offers that are made and then abandoned by the bidder.
If the great advantage is the combining of items and having one shipping price for multiple items then why not make it a total 'Buy It Now' site with that function. No time consuming haggling but instead a big mall with subset stores where there is no auction waits or haggling waits. If the buyers come in a fill a cart and ask what the shipping is to Tulsa and then either agree or the cart is automatically emptied and the items restocked in the store. To keep stuff from beig tied up make it a 24 hour limit for the seller or buyer to reply.
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stonecold613
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posted on September 1, 2003 08:38:08 PM
BragainandHaggle.com
I think your spell checker isn't working again bids.
Do you mean "Bargain"andhaggle.com?
Or are you Bragain (haha) about your non sales of crap items again.
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timetravelers
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posted on September 2, 2003 07:14:04 AM
Alexa traffic rank no competition to ioffer there,that site has been around for years just never grows
ioffer is 1 year old
Traffic Rank for ioffer.com: 12,049
Traffic Rank for bargainandhaggle.com: 73,246
epier after 5+ years online
Traffic Rank for epier.com: 42,697
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replaymedia
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posted on September 2, 2003 05:14:34 PM
You know stonecold, the every one of your posts I've seen over the past week have simply been to pick on Ace (Or bids, or whoever you think he is).
I don't have any idea what kind of history you have with bidsbids or auctionace either. Maybe they are the same guy- I have no idea. I don't much care. If you have a problem with his postings, then say something about his postings.
Resorting to typo-picking is just a waste of time for all of us. Some of us actually read these boards and your recent posts are just so much NOISE.
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replaymedia
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posted on September 2, 2003 05:16:48 PM
timetraveler:
I don't know much about those rankings...
Is a higher number better or worse?
Is it a ranking or are those hit counts?
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toollady
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posted on September 2, 2003 07:06:11 PM
The lower the Alexa ranking number, the better.
However, the numbers can be easily skewed because Alexa only counts hits to a site by surfers who use the Alexa Toolbar.
It's really easy for a site to get the number it wants by having a group use the Alexa toolbar and refresh the pages throughout the day.
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replaymedia
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posted on September 2, 2003 07:24:00 PM
I just checked out Alexa.com
Now I'm really depressed. My website is actually listed... at 1.8 MILLION.
Sigh ;( Time to increase the ad budget...
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AuctionAce
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posted on September 2, 2003 08:15:47 PM
I think the Alexa rankings can be skewed quite easily. The more links going in and out of the site the more traffic or indirect traffic the better the rating. I take all Alexa rating with a grain of salt.
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lovepotions
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posted on September 3, 2003 03:44:54 AM
Alexa rankings are not correct at all.
My website on Alexa is ranked #1 in the shopping category.
How??
It is a Yahoo store. So Alexa collectively adds all hits collected from ALL Yahoo stores and makes the Yahoo stores main site #1 for shopping site hits.
My "store" however I would have no clue or way to find out my true ranking in cyberspace as long as it is on the Yahoo network.
http://www.lovepotions.com
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timetravelers
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posted on September 3, 2003 06:58:59 AM
replay thanks for the response
one thing you can guage is how ioffer has been steadily climbing up to the lower numbers...of course ebay is 1
yahoo does not separate the stores & auctions so it is not a true count for them..
you can only get the report for huge yahoo that is why the store came up #1 or whatever
no one has ever mentioned going over to alexa and getting hits..in fact most don't want the toolbar in any shape or form ..I beleive you must install it to have your hits count..
the huge difference between ioffer and the smaller site does have numerical meaning which is ioffer ROCKS..
good luck whereever you sell just trying to share ideas here
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AuctionAce
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posted on September 3, 2003 08:40:39 AM
Many of my hundreds of ioffer listings are ending each day now after their second 60 day run and most have zero or just one page view. If that isn't depressing then nothing is. Good thing ioffer makes the sellers modify the listings after two relists ... wouldn't want the invisible people to see stale listings. 
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Blairwitch
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posted on September 3, 2003 09:17:34 AM
Does ioffer do any advertising besides word of mouth?
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AuctionAce
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posted on September 3, 2003 10:08:17 AM
None that I've seen but none of the other sites advertise much either. Not really not very fair to single them out for that.
They seem to have more personnel than the average site and that can be both a good thing and a bad thing. Good thing because innovations and other tasks get done faster and bad thing is the the bottom line gets heavy and the amount of time to turn a profit may be shorter.
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toollady
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posted on September 3, 2003 01:32:05 PM
Ebay is NOT the #1 ranked site according to Alexa. Yahoo is.
Ebay's rank is around #9.
Alexa rankings are bogus.
Lovepotions just proved the point.
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stonecold613
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posted on September 3, 2003 08:51:17 PM
replaymedia,
If you really need to read up before you assume what is reality. If you had, you would have known that Auction bids will bury you at the drop of a pin. He is the know it all got to do it my way idiot who really doesn't sell squat. But then again, After reading many of your posts, one has to wonder. So exuse me if the spewer needs a little chopping at the knees once in a while.
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