Posted by: yabe on: February 22, 2007
As you are aware, I’m currently developing a eBay competitor. There are many things that I’m strongly working on, which I wanted to give you some insight as to some of the current solutions I’ve developed.
My solutions have been developed around the faults of eBay, which I’ve developed solutions for the following:
I still have many more solutions to generate. I’m doing my due diligence to successfully launch a website that can potentially knock eBay off their high horse. My goals are to offer a safe online auction venue, that protects both the buyers & sellers, while being cheaper in cost.
July 31, 2007 at 11:32 am
I think your biggest hurdle is going to be the publicity. Ebay currently has a huge amount of money to spend on advertising, and it has both word of mouth and household name to its glory, easy to remember and its the first auction site that comes up when someone asks about online auctions.
You’re going to need a hell of a lot of publicity, plus be able to safely sway others away from Ebay or at least get them using your site regularly as well.
Ebay is a rippoff, shill bidding is rife so too are scammers, i think hiding bidders is disgusting as i used to be able to tell who was buying their own stuff with different accounts, whats more the majority of shill bid detections were done and reported by Ebay users which they can now not do.
But…Until a decent competitor comes along with great publicity and loads of members, i and others stick with Ebay!
Aaron Sneddon
http://www.bulgariabid.com