posted on September 20, 2004 02:56:12 PM new
What Happened To Bidville?
I started with them when they were: AuxPal.
I sold more there in 3 months than I did on Yahoo/Bohoo in 2 years.
I though I found a 2nd home.
Then they changed their name, after that very little in sales.
Not enough to keep me interested.
The sales I did make were NPB's.
Then they started charging, Good Bye, I'm out of here!
I went there the other night to look/see.
Pages & pages of no bids.
In the cat's I would sell in, 1 bid on 1 item.Not Good enough to make me write all those ads.
What Happened?
Could the chaos at the chat boards have been it's down fall?
posted on September 26, 2004 05:24:12 PM new
You can always look to management. And marketing.
The community board griping isn't BV's downfall. They community board represents the sellers (mostly) and they are correct, BV is just not a contender! I'm hoping that halfvalue.com comes alive, it's been out there for almost a year so it should start making moves.
http://lwright.biz/index.html
posted on September 26, 2004 08:49:01 PM newCould the chaos at the chat boards have been it's down fall?
It clearly was part of the problem. If a person that didn't have crap (sports cards), you were had a life expecancy of a may fly. Then if you get lucky enough for a bidder to find your item through the sea of crappy sports card, they ended up being a deadbeat. Then they began charging to list on their site. Anyone that had even half a brain dropped them like a hot potato. Bidville had a great opportunity to become a serious contender when Yahoo started charging listing fees, but when they didn't dump the junk, the quality people went back to Yahoo as their second site and have done quite well since the junk was no longer on Yahoo.
Personally, I am glad bidville is there to keep the deadbeats and crap auctions away from the other sites.
posted on October 9, 2004 04:14:56 PM newBUT They were dishonest. I joined, paid for the right to post gallery pictures, and then in a short time I left Bidville, and it didn't matter how many times I told them to close my account, every month I would get charged for that gallery privilege. I finally called my credit card company about them, and they quit charging me.
THEN within the last month I got a mailing from them saying something about, I had been made a member of Bidville because I had joined something else, I don't even recall what - it was written like they were giving me a great gift, a free membership!!! Obviously, they are hungry again!
Needless to say, that e-mail immediately when into the delete file!
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Speaking of Yahoo:
sthoemke You are right about Yahoo, it had fantastic potential, and we were doing tons of auctions back then. Before Yahoo started charging, we had posted and sold more on Yahoo than eBay, but when they started charging, not recognizing the fact, that Yahoo items seem to have to be redundantly posted to sell well, then we left. Yahoo was about there as a major contender to eBay, when, on their own initiative, they committed suicide! I really miss the old Yahoo, it was great.
Stonecold don’t go off on me about baseball cards, we don’t and never have sold such – here is a link to one of our web sites and it reflects about what we sold on Yahoo – these aren’t baseball cards:
~"It does not matter what I think, it does not matter what you think. The only thing which matters is: What is the TRUTH!"~
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[ edited by jwpc on Oct 9, 2004 04:26 PM ]
posted on October 24, 2004 03:26:35 PM new
I listed on Bidville and thought boy this is going to be great....it suks big time and is the pits of all pits that claim to be an auction venue....I couldn't get any info from their CS so I emailed the company that holds BV paperwork....they emailed me and said they bought BV for their investors and they were not going to advertise or put any money into it and they would sell it as soon as they could find a buyer that would give the investors a profit. They have been there 4 years and it is still just sitting there, lots of sellers, no buyers, no traffic. Sport card listings are more than double all other listings combined. It is the worse of garage sales. Old time sellers there will brag and brag about a sale and you go and look at their auctions and they are all for 25 cents. BV will keep those that brag about them even tho they make no money from them and will suspend a seller that could make them lots of money. It is the biggest joke on the internet and all the good sellers are leaving in groves.
