bluepennylady (Carpal Tunnel)
01/25/09 06:41 PM
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Sue,
Something else. I am selling product on Bonanzle. One of the Bonanzle transactions only cost me $1.00. It would have cost $7.50 on eBay.
So I figured it was worth the effort to do some things manually like listing there. Honestly, if you create an Auction lot in AW2K, save teh image to your hard drive, you can upload the image to Bonanzle, copy/paste the title line and the description completing a listing in about 30 to 45 seconds if you have high speed. EVerynow and then it will be a minute. But I can buzz through a listing pretty fast now.
I figured since there is not an insertion fee but only Final value fees it can't hurt to list stuff there for a while. Traffic seems to be good. I know alot of eBay buyers are migrating as they hate the new "My eBay" as well as some of the other changes. The Bonanzle forums are full of buyers moving over.
So I would think at some point sales will have to escalate there.
Judy/blue
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tictictic_OnEbay (addict)
01/29/09 11:52 AM
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Just dropping in to say THANK YOU to Garry and Judy for three very informative posts on this topic. I've saved them all to my Bonanzle How-To file. As soon as I have an empty day, I'm going to set up a B booth.
The way I see it, though, is that as soon as Bonanzle begins taking on household-word status (imagine Sarah Palin saying, "...so I sold it on Bonanzle!"), and a few thousand more eBay sellers jump ship, eBay will just buy Bonanzle and that'll be that. Sigh.
And by the way, I asked both my adult, internet-savvy daughters (they're up on current events and frequently buy things online) if they'd ever heard of Bonanzle, and neither had. From a buyer's point of view (for collectibles, antiques, used stuff, bargains), there is still only eBay. I don't know why anyone would search Bonanzle and not eBay, for example, or for that matter, search Bonanzle before eBay. If Bonanzle began running radio/tv ads targeted at shoppers, what features would they say gave them an edge over eBay?
Sue
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bluepennylady (Carpal Tunnel)
01/29/09 02:14 PM
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Sue,
Actually Bonanzle has ramped up to the 4th most used venue in just the past few weeks. They reached over 1 million listings Monday of this week with over 23,000 users.... And the users are not all sellers. It is about a 3 buyer to every 1 seller ratio.
http://www.bonanzle.com was named the biggest alternative to eBAy in 2008. There is an article about it here http://www.smallbusinesscomputing.com/news/article.php/11520_3798906_4
Antiques and collectibles fit very well into the Bonanzle model as the market is actually set for used/antique/vintage product. So much so that before I opened a booth up I inquired if new product was allowed on the site.
I am selling product there. Sold more stuff this morning. And it is not practicals selling but collectibles or novelty items.
Bonanzle's xml file feed for Google base is much cleaner than eBay's xml file. I haven't had a single missing attribute or condition.
Bonanzle seller's are using the Google base xml file feeds to base, and it is pushing alot of traffic to the site. So if a seller is offering product on Bonanzle and eBay the listings often pull up right next to each other even in an internet search. You have a 50/50 chance the prospective buyer clicking on the Bonanzle listing. Especially if you do some self promotion and move your Bonanzle listing to the top of the search page yourself
The venue is much easier to navigate around in than eBay. Pages load much more quickly. The Sell Your item form is one page as opposed to how many pages on eBay so the process goes quickly to post an item.
There is an integrated shopping cart on the site. it is much easier for buyers to purchase multiple items on Bonanzle.
There are real live human beings that work the tech support. And when they respond, you get an answer that actually answers your question as opposed to some canned response that doesn't even begin to address the issue you inquired about.
So far my experience on Bonanzle has been quite positive. The forums are MUCH friendlier,, The tech support is on top of things and respond to inquiries.
Anyway, since there are no listing fees but only Final Value fees, I decided to give it a try for a while...... And I am selling stuff there.
Judy/blue
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bluepennylady (Carpal Tunnel)
02/04/09 02:58 PM
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Hi, All,
For those of you that are wondering still about joining Bonanzle.... Here is another post made by Bonanzle's CEO/founder and developer Bill Harding. There have been more changes made that even further enhance the site.
http://www.bonanzle.com/blogs
Now here's what even cooler,,, almost every single day, I am selling product on Bonanzle. I know it isn't landslide business but still, a new site in early development stages and "stuff" is selling. Doing the math on just the savings on fees it is flat out worth the time to list on Bonanzle.
Judy/blue
Visit my eBay store! http://stores.ebay.com/bluepennylady?refid=store Visit our website too! http://www.pennyworthsales.com
Visit me at Bonanzle! http://www.bonanzle.com/bluepennylady
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