auctiongaurd
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posted on February 11, 2001 05:31:10 PM new
Please help us rate this site. Give only info about this partcular site. Pros and Cons. No need to bash, just honest opinions.
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deichen
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posted on February 12, 2001 10:52:01 AM new
I went there and looked around. not interested because of the listings fees and who wants to list 100 items to get free listings when you might not sell anything. No thanks! If they drop the listing fees I might look again.
[ edited by deichen on Feb 12, 2001 10:53 AM ]
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quickdraw29
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posted on February 12, 2001 10:56:38 AM new
Awesome site. I haven't sold there or bought there yet, but it is a niche player which will find its market and succeed.
\"They say the grass is greener on the other side. But have you flipped it over and looked?
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lovepotions
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posted on February 12, 2001 11:30:09 AM new
How hard would it be to list 100 items in a month???
25 a week......
They also have the best/easiest bulk loader of any auction site I sell on.
I like it because its not a massive crap site with "Secrets to Ebay Power Seller" Cd's
Less categories means less pointless clicking to find stuff.
The bidding activity is very good for the listings they have. You can pick any category and see for yourself.
It is highly community based. Noone is anonomous.
You can't expect every auction site to not have listing fees........
http://www.lovepotions.net
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heike55
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posted on February 12, 2001 05:38:56 PM new
Might have to check them out, too.
heikejohn everywhere else!
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misscandle
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posted on February 12, 2001 06:40:54 PM new
Popula is a very charming site. I have begun slowly: I listed 5 items for 10 days each at the beginning of the month and 2 have sold already. I can relist the others once for free. They send a weekly e-mail newsletter that is fun reading. They featured one of my items in the newsletter and it went from a $2 bid to $6.00 with over 200 page views. Okay, not big bucks, but nice of them to support a little guy like me.
This site has personality. Even the TOS are funny. The fees are well worth it because of the number of page views I'm getting. On other free sites, the only views I got were my own....checking to see if I had page views! One is the loneliest number...
Listing on Popula is easy. I plan to put more things up when I finish this lazy spell I'm in.
My only complaint is the font that is used on the site, and the head of the company addressed my concern personally and told me how to adjust my screen to fix the problem. Can't ask for better service than that.
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labelle
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posted on February 12, 2001 08:25:52 PM new
I have 11 items still live from last week's listings and have 7 with bids.Payments are already coming in from the ones that closed yesterday and tonite.I HAVE to get busy and scan and list-list list!!!!!To get the 100- I try listing 5 a nite as often as I can.I also copy and paste from other auctions to here. But Jewelry gets first run at Popula pretty much.
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ltsa
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posted on February 12, 2001 09:14:45 PM new
I began listing on Popula on january 1. Since then I have listed nearly 500 lots and sold 18% of them. I find the site easy to use and their customer support is fantastic. I don't think this site is for Beanies but it certainly attracts lookers and bidders in the older items and on off-beat items.
Members of the site are like a big happy family and I have received assistance and advice from established sellers freely.
To date I have had no deadbeats and that is a positive.
It's a clean, honest site and I hope it stays that way.
As for listing a minimum of 100 lots a month in order to be fee-less ... that's only 3 - 4 lots a day. If you can't manage that, then 4 for $1 seems pretty cheap as it also includes a free re-list if it doesn't sell first time around.
"You'll never, never know if you never, never go!"
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coolvette
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posted on February 16, 2001 03:49:28 AM new
This site is small. Didn't see much bidding. Only had about 1,200 listings. Site speed was good, layout was nothing fancy but there wasn't nothing wrong with it either.
I did register at the site which was easy. I found 1 item I wanted and will snipe it in about 5 days. 
I give it a 7 plus. It has some potential.
~Vette~
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nanabees
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posted on February 16, 2001 06:50:23 AM new
Hi All!
I too, went and took a look. Interesting site! Some activity there too...for such a small site. Definite potential and some neat items up. Haven't listed anything...but sure wish I could afford some beauties I saw there.LOL
Hya Vette! How are ya? Hope everything is a-ok with ya! 
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tomwiii
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posted on February 19, 2001 12:33:53 PM new
TRULY OUTSTANDING SITE!
Great CS!
EASY to use image hosting!
HUMOUR!!
I listed 10 items today & I have 10 times the page views I've had at BidVille!
If anything sells, I've found a second home!
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navajojewelry
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posted on February 20, 2001 08:42:12 AM new
auctiongaurd started these threads on RATING sites and when he/she did not get the response he/she wanted he/she asked to have the ePier thread locked.
My opinion is that auctiongaurd only wanted to cause discontent with users of the FREE sites. I get this impression from his/her following post to another thread: PLEASE READ:
Does this sound like someone that wants sites RATED, or someone that wants FREE sites off the internet?
auctiongaurd
posted on February 15, 2001 11:35:08 AM
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Wabmester,
That is halarious! But you are right. People have been accustomed to getting their services on the Internet for free. I've said this before, I think that on a particular date ALL of the online auction sites should begin starting fees INCLUDING basic listing fees. If all of them did this it would clean up the industry from the littered three cent garbage and turn the industry into a respectable e-commerce marketplace.
It would also weed out the less adaquate sites and provide a revenue stream for those that survive that would allow for branding, advertising, and upkeep.
Sure it would also make a lot of sellers abandon the auction industry for good, but if I were a business I would rather have 1000 paying customers over 10,000 non-paying ones.
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Sounds a little too much like eBay talking to me, with the e-commerce marketplace idea.
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joanne
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posted on February 20, 2001 09:11:34 AM new
Well, I have to say my first experience with Popula is unbelievable. I'm home sick with the flu today, I got bored and listed my first items there less than 2 hours ago. I already have a bid
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auctiongaurd
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posted on February 20, 2001 09:45:52 AM new
navajojewelry, why are you spamming every thread with this same post? Am I not entitled to my opinion?
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navajojewelry
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posted on February 20, 2001 10:56:37 AM new
You posted it to another thread. Why do you mind everyone knowing your idea of the perfect internet auction site?
I do not know what you mean by (littered three cent garbage),But
I thought of auctions as starting bids low and letting people decide the value the item is worth to them, not at retail prices or as you state ( turn the industry into a respectable e-commerce marketplace.).
You started these threads not me. And as for spamming - I have sent no emails to anyone trying to sell my merchandise nor have I tried to sell my merchandise here!
With this I am going back to work listing!
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