posted on September 29, 2001 05:24:22 AM new
I am looking for a site to list some lower priced items where I can avoid fees so as to keep their prices affordable. Is Bidville worth the effort?
posted on September 29, 2001 05:41:18 AM new
I would suggest to anyone debating putting items there to use the closed auctions portion of the BV search engine to research the success of similar items. Some items do much beter than others as evidenced by the one book sold in the new books storefront out of almost 300,000.
posted on September 29, 2001 09:10:46 AM new
I just listed a bunch of PEZ a couple days ago, so we'll see how it goes. I bought the 'Premier Member' package which I think is a great deal. The free sites have to have some $$ and I don't feel right listing tons of stuff there and never paying them anything. At least with BV there's an incentive to purchase the service whereas epier didn't give you squat and then zapped everyone with FVF. Now that epier is charging, I believe more folks will head to BV - I know I did!
posted on September 29, 2001 11:42:22 AM new
Give it a try, even the bashers will have to agree that lower priced items are just the thing for Bidville.
posted on September 29, 2001 12:08:01 PM new
jimhhow >
Give it a try, even the bashers will have to agree that lower priced items are just the thing for Bidville.
Despite distortions by Bidville cheerleaders who like throwing out the "basher" term, it makes sense to list items with low marketability on Bidville, whatever the price. They already have more one million listings, which comprise the Internet's Largest Inventory Warehouse, so be prepared to list hundreds, even thousands, of such items in order to generate minimal weekly sales.
There's no recent documented benefit to either a Premier or Premier Plus Membership as Bidville no longer provides a weekly sales report.
[ edited by dimview on Sep 29, 2001 12:09 PM ]
posted on September 29, 2001 12:08:31 PM new
yep, give it a try. What can it hurt? If you do not want to pay fees, then give it a try! I sell some items there. Not as well as I did on Yahoo, but it isn't too bad!
posted on September 29, 2001 07:26:26 PM new
stachyruk,
Your last post has been deleted due to it's promotional nature - while it is acceptable to post your User ID if you wish, it's not acceptable to accompany it with promotional language.
posted on September 30, 2001 03:41:14 AM new
Having listed on BV since Jan in many categories and wide price ranges I have yet to sell an item there for more than $3.25. The closed lists show that is not at all unusual, in fact it's higher than the norm. I find it not worth any effort to run anything over $4 there anymore. The assessment I posted here around June remains unchanged...BV is perfectly adequate for storing items I deem unworthy of fees and am in no rush to move. You will be sorely disappointed if you expect BV to provide you lookers but I have generated many sales by emailing my BV link to my Yahoo, ebay etc winners. Just place a sig line on your EOA's like 'for my lower priced specials & combined shipping visit this URL...'
posted on September 30, 2001 04:13:17 AM new
Well, that is kinda what I did. I bought the premier membership-really a bargain! I am listing all my little odds and ends that are in the 1-4 dollar category. I will add the Bidville link to my EOA letter, and see how it does. That is all I really wanted. These small items are neat, but not worth a listing fee. But 5 dollars a month for an 'all you can list' buffet? I'll try that!
Edited to ask-and show my ignorance-how do you put a link into your letter-what would it be to link to your bidville auctions? Thanks for the help!
[ edited by bearmom on Sep 30, 2001 04:16 AM ]
posted on October 1, 2001 03:31:30 AM new
Thanks, kasmoon and dimview! Hey, dimview, I wondered where you were at. I've missed your posts on the Yahoo board. Do you still list anything on Yahoo, or have you switched to Bidville 100%?
posted on October 1, 2001 06:39:42 AM new
bearmom,
Hi. I've been listing stuff off-and-on at eBay (few listings, sales on most), ePier (listings, few sales) and Bidville(listings, few sales). Haven't quite figured out where Yahoo fits into the scheme of things.
posted on October 1, 2001 07:54:12 PM new
Things can be very slow at Bidville, but I think tht's also true for the general US economy. However, I just sold about 40-50 auctions during the last 2-3 days... so I can't complain.
Granted many of these are cheap tading cards; however, I've sold many items far greater than $50 on Bidville. Heck I just bought an item on Bidville for $80. I spent weeks trying to win one one eBay and then finally an eBay seller started to list on Bidville. I know if I go to eBay I would have to had pay at least $95.
posted on October 1, 2001 09:45:43 PM new
I don't really know what you would consider success. You have to have a certain figure in your head to decipher success. I just sell little nickel dime sportcards. I do it as a hobby which I believe 60% of all people that auction also do it as a hobby. I sold at Yahoo for one year during this period I sold $2,725.19 and spent close to $300.00 featuring items. I have been a member at Bidville for eight and a half months and I have sold $2,793.88 and spent $85.00 featuring items. I guess this would be a success in Hillbilly terms. I did have my best month in August. I sold $965.75 and business was down for September, I only sold $643.15 but I believe this was due to the terrorist attacks. I won't candy coat anything before August & September I only did a couple hundred a month in sales. But hey! five dollars a month to try it out. That ain't bad. I just spent $14.00 for 5 cans of Copenhagen snuff. Wish you the best.
Hillbilly
posted on October 1, 2001 10:46:24 PM new
Hillbilly your numbers are substantial. If I recall correct I remember hearing about you receiving some threatening emails from fellow sportscard sellers on BV for selling your cards at very low prices. I suppose anyone selling cards at super low prices would have to have good successes to report on any site they sold on.
posted on October 2, 2001 12:26:05 PM new
Well, I paid my 5 dollars and listed about 100 auctions this weekend. These are mostly items that didn't sell on Yahoo after the relist, and are so low priced that they aren't worth paying to list again-some really cute items, just low priced. If I can break even on them, that will be success.
posted on October 2, 2001 12:40:41 PM new
bidsbids, that is correct but I believe sometimes I get those dasturdly e-mails because of being so opinionated. LOL!!! There is several Bidviller's that sell cards cheaper than me. I really don't know why I have been successful. I only got to inform about 15 Yahoo customers and then they denied me acess to their e-mails. But like I said if you are selling on auctions for a living. It probably wouldn't hurt to get a second job. LOL!!! See ya'll later. Wish you the best "bear." Hillbilly
posted on October 4, 2001 09:20:00 AM new
Well, a few pageviews, but no sales so far. But then they wouldn't be selling at all, sitting in a box and not listed anywhere.
On the other hand, that other site that is somewhere between Ebay and Bidville,(see how I didn't name names? ) has really taken off the last few days. I started listing my Christmas merchandise, and apparently some people are starting to Christmas shop.
posted on October 4, 2001 09:52:11 AM new
I'm having good success at Bidville, slowly but surely sales are coming in on a wide range of items I sell. I like the site, it's easy to work with and friendly also.
Now Yahoo, has been dead for me, nomatter what I list, and Ebay maybe will list one item once in awhile. But keeping all on Bidville, cause sooner or later the looker finds it...
posted on October 4, 2001 01:48:09 PM new
Toollady, I know you mentioned something earlier about 21 suspensions on Yahoo. To date, and to your knowledge, how many sellers have actually been suspended? I'm not being snide, or questioning you, just curious as to how many and why.
posted on October 4, 2001 02:05:16 PM new
Toollady: You said "That other site you speak of, is in the middle of chaos. Mass suspensions abound and the numbers keep dropping." Which site are you talking about? I guess I must be out of the loop since I hadn't heard about any site suspending masses of people. Epier suspended two that I do know about and that's about it.
With all the hubbub about fees and such, if you look at Epier (without all the complaints from some ex-users), it's actually something of a bargain. For example, you pay nothing to list and, if your items range in price from $1.00 to $4.00 as you stated, the most you would pay in FVF would be 10 cents per item. Recently, there has been a flurry of buying. Why I have no idea. Maybe over the confusion at "that other site"?
Since I started Epier on January 11, 2001, I have sold over 100 items. I don't have an actual tally since I don't keep track that way. Similarly, I don't have a dollar figure for what I've sold but it's got to be about $1000.00. Since the FVFs have come into being, I owe a total of 36 cents (you can figure out what they sold for). I've said before that I don't auction as a business but for fun, so huge sales and huge dollar amounts are not my targets.
posted on October 4, 2001 02:27:11 PM new
Bearmom,
AACCKKK!!! I thought you were talking about another site! There is a site, which when taking parts of the words ebay and bidville and combining, give you another site name.
The site is not allowed to be mentioned here on AW. The discussion of the site has been banned due to too many disruptions.
posted on October 4, 2001 02:36:50 PM new
justjoan >
I'm having good success at Bidville, slowly but surely sales are coming in on a wide range of items I sell.
Since the pathetic sell-through rates requires sellers to list hundreds of items for minimal sales, let me guess, several hundred items?
I like the site, it's easy to work with
Agreed. The "look" and "feel" of Bidville works well.
and friendly also.
Hardly. Drove through the community recently and had to roll up the windows and lock the doors. Not friendly at all.
But keeping all on Bidville, cause sooner or later the looker finds it...
Well, with the necessity of listing hundreds of items, listing fees for no-interest and low-interest items just cannot be justified elsewhere, so hundreds of items multiplied by thousands of sellers has transformed Bidville into the Internet's Largest Inventory Warehouse.
Not surprising at all that there's been no sales report for five weeks.
posted on October 4, 2001 03:54:27 PM new
In my opinion, the last post concerning JustJoan's prior post was not necessary. While the available statistics show that the sell-through rate at Bidville has hovered around 1.5% (give or take a tenth or two), it is possible for an individual seller to have a significantly better sell-through rate. From my observations, Joan is a serious and organized seller with appealing products which makes it quite conceivable that her results are much better than the norm. In any event, her post states that her results are satisfactory to her. To any auction seller, the bottom line is their own individual results, not the site's.
By the way, her post was simply a statement of her own experiences and actions. It certainly was not worthy of being belittled. An honorable person might feel compelled to offer an apology.
posted on October 4, 2001 03:57:50 PM new
No, Toollady, that was my fault. I'm just never sure when we can mention another auction site and when we can't.
I am getting some pageviews, no sales yet, not even with the take it option. But I'm willing to wait and see, as long as DH doesn't get mad about the boxes of stuff stacked in his garage!
posted on October 4, 2001 06:53:08 PM new
Thanks stavecards for the remarks. I find that any time anything GOOD is said about BIDVILLE that person loves to down it just as hard as they can...
I am what I am, and anybody wants to know more check my profile. I at least tell who I am..........
And I stand by my words, BIDVILLE works.
