posted on February 14, 2001 09:37:31 PM new
Anyone notice when you go to Bidville, you get an extra browser popping up with an ad. I just started noticing that, and it is quite annoying!
posted on February 15, 2001 08:10:57 AM new
I haven't had this happen and spend quite a bit of time there. Have you emailed them and told them it's annoying?
posted on February 15, 2001 08:42:14 AM new
I have not had that happen to me yet I have listed over 300 auction on BidVille and spend an hour or so a day on that site. As soon as it happens to me, I will email them about it.
posted on February 15, 2001 08:54:08 AM new
I don't want this to sound antagonistic but which is more annoying...
Bidville allowing you to list for free and supplementing their income by advertising regardless how they do it....
Or
Paying to list on a site?
Nothing in life is absolutely free. This website has to have some kind of revenue coming in and maybe the company that paid for the ad did so only under the condition this is how it would be done.
You can't have it both ways. Expect it for free without there being any "catch."
This is the "catch." Pop Up Ad windows.
I don't list at BidVille don't know if I ever will so I'm not a "supporter," nor am I a "dissenter."
posted on February 15, 2001 01:48:34 PM new
I just spent 3 hours on bidville, loading auctions, and then I looked around for over an hour to see what there. I never got the pop up. Could it be your ISP?
posted on February 15, 2001 02:14:04 PM new
gina: Good point. When I have a certain ISP active there is a good amount of PopUps. Has anyone emailed BidVille and asked them?
RB - good point also. If we want a free site we might have to make an extra click of the mouse now and again to close a window but keep the site free to those using it.
I know I suffered through a lot of inconveniences at Yahoo and justified the fact that the site only half worked by reminding myself it is "free". I could work around a lot when chanting "free, free, free!"
posted on February 15, 2001 02:22:18 PM new
Hi, Gina:
No, it is not my ISP. It only happens when I go to Bidville. And, the pop-up ad places 4 cookies on my harddrive. I just tested it.
AG2: I understand your point. As a seller, I'm in the minority here because I don't mind paying a reasonable fee if my items are being exposed to buyers----Popula.com, for example, is a site I like to use. At least I have made sales there. And, the page views are great.
My problem with the pop-up ads is their potential to scare buyers away, thus having the opposite effect than was intended. Then, the site really would be free: Buyer-free. Still, I hope Bidville figures out what works best for the majority of users....I'd be very happy to see the sellers there succeed.
posted on February 15, 2001 04:55:23 PM new
I wrote Bidville yesterday about the pop-ups and they assured me they were working on getting rid of them. They vanished for a while and returned today. I find them very invading. I had to go to remove programs to finally get them out of my system. They are also in your cookie file and temp files. I guess I will have to write again.
Mike
mandm50s
posted on February 15, 2001 06:30:43 PM new
you want free this and free that, thats the price you pay. if they started chargin fees you would all leave. you folks do not know what an auction seller is. all you want to do is cheerlead for anything that costs nothing. a waste of time.
The site is nothing more than a free place and it wont be active 3 months from now as more little quirks arise, all free sites will be a thing of the past in the very near future. then where you gonna go.
yahoo did the right thing. non auctions are non auctions and nothing more.
I have listed over 300 auction on BidVille and spend an hour or so a day on that site. As soon as it happens to me, I will email them about it. 
