A round up of Auction News
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Don't forget your UK based eBay Service Providers :-)
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auctionpix.co.uk - for image hosting and other services
auctionchex.com - for exchanging US$ payments
auctionchex.com - for making International Payments
auctionthanx.com - for buliding early buyer/seler relationships
auctiontrax.com - for easy bidding, watching and searching (including shill bidding)
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My website(s)
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CQout celebrates half a million auctions
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CQout tops half a million auctions making it the 2nd largest UK auction site
1 October 07 - Reading, UK based internet auction site CQout Ltd (as in ‘Seek You Out’) this month celebrates having over half a million items for sale on www.CQout.com for the first time, cementing its claim to be the UK’s second largest internet auction site.
CQout was set up by three London Business School graduates in late 1999, and since then the company has grown quietly by word of mouth, content to watch other auction sites come and go while developing its own solid reputation for security and customer service to the point where it now has users in over 50 countries.
“It took the best part of seven years to reach the quarter million mark, which we did in December 2006, but it’s only taken eight months to double that figure to over half a million items live at any one time. At the moment we are up to 600,000 auctions,” said CQout co-founder and Managing Director Siamak Bashi.
From the start CQout has insisted on a rigorous validation policy to ensure users are genuine. This policy has proved contentious at times but it has ensured fraudsters and scammers are kept out protecting everyone using the site.
“Growing in the shadow of the giant that our customers refer to as ‘Feebay’ hasn’t been too difficult as we really believe that people should have a choice, whether it’s on the high street or on the internet,” said Siamak Bashi. “Our view is that people do sometimes need help and value real customer service, so if you call us, you’ll get through to a real person who’ll help deal with a problem or offer advice and unlike some others we do respond to email.”
CQout provides a different type of auction service to the market leader. CQout charges every new user a one-off registration fee of £2.00. The fee covers the administrative costs of validating user details to create and maintain a secure environment where buyers and sellers can trust that goods will be delivered, items paid for, and that time wasting bids will not be made.
The site also operates a 'three strikes and you're out' policy on negative feedback. Three justified negative feedback comments from purchasers will have a seller banned for life. Rigorous security prevents banned users from re-registering with different details.
“Our growth comes from our personal service as well as simple economics,” said Siamak Bashi. “If the cost of selling goods is too high, sellers will look for an alternative and our ‘no sale, no fee’ policy can make a real difference to the ‘bottom line’ of a big seller.”
CQout does not charge listing fees for standard listings (hence 'no sale, no fee'), and fees for all optional extras are all clearly visible. New users can also see how this compares to other sites by using a fee comparison table - http://www.cqout.com/charges_comp_nvat.asp
By not spending huge sums on advertising CQout has channeled its resources into first class customer service. The team offers sellers of all sizes useful tools such as an Excel based up-loader that can import listings from a range of formats, automatic re-listing of unsold items as well as search statistics.
“In the true spirit of providing choice, people don’t have to use us exclusively, and many of our users list on other auction sites as well,” said Tony Newton, CQout director and co-founder. “But it doesn’t cost anything to list items on CQout, so you have nothing to lose and everything to gain from an additional shop window for your products.”
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CQout.com
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fleahaus auctions
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Introducing fleahaus.com, a free and easy to use auction and classifieds site. Many auction sites are simple clones of Ebay...we offer something a little different. Our site is "search-centric", clutter-free, and offers one-click local searches. Check us out!
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www.fleahaus.com
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New Look 121Bid !
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Just to let you know that our new look 121Bid site is up and running.
Drop by and let us know what you think.
We had the Logo designed first and then incorporated the Logo colour scheme into the site and added a few design features of our own.
We hope to follow this shortly with a Site Forum.
In the meantime, back to the drawing board.
Good luck with your auctions !
Eddie
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121Bid
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Auction Lotwatch launches fifteenth free auction tool
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UK based auction tools provider Auction Lotwatch announced this week the beta release of its fifteenth free auction tool - http://www.auctionfinal.com A new tool designed to work specifically with over ten eBay sites it aims to put last minute, zero-bid auction lots at the fingertips of auction buyers worldwide.
Online auctions in general and eBay in particular have been witness to a massive increase in popularity over recent years. Auction Lotwatch offers this growing community over fifteen utilities and information sites aimed at enhancing their auction experience and reducing both time and costs:
http://www.auctionlotwatch.co.uk/free/
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15 Free Auction Tools
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Terms & Conditions Tool
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Create your own Terms & Conditions panel, for your auction listings with our new tool.
Create a smart looking terms and conditions box for your auctions listing, containing your own selection of categories (Auction Terms, Postage, Paying, Returns, Feedback Policy etc), add your own terms for each category.
The table uses a background image from our backgrounds collection to help make the whole thing stand out.
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Terms & Conditions Tool
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UK Auction Help - Petitions
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Do you have a pressing issue which you would like to bring to the attention of an Auction site, Payment service etc?
Start your own or check out and sign the current Petitions
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Petitions List
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Food Machinery & Catering Auctions
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Auction Sales - Details of forthcoming sales:
17th November 2005 @ 10.30am ?
X -Change, 5 Exchange Street, Harleston. Norfolk. IP20 9AB
Fantastic fully equipped catering / commercial kitchen, bar & restaurant sale ? equipment 8 months old !
30th November 2005 @ 11.30am ?
Bure Valley Foods Units 5 ? 7 Oak Tree Business Park, Hargham Road, Shropham orfolk NR17 1DS
Food Processing & Catering Equipment complete factory contents and processing machinery Ex- Bure Valley Foods - over 500 lots to be sold
7th December 2005 @ 11.30am
Husky Products Ltd, The 4 Degree Centre, Bilton Way, Lutterworth, LE17 4JA
Commerical, retail & hospitality chiller units, display cabinets, freezers and point of sale equipment. Some units brand new never used ? a must auction attend if you are looking to refit or require this type of equipment.
Call the auctioneers for details: Pro Auction Ltd 01761 414000 / 0845 058 0652 or email: info@proauction.ltd.uk
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Pro Auction Ltd
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eBid - UK free online auction site
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In October 2004, eBid will be launching in the USA
www.ebid.co.uk & www.ebid.tv
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eBid
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eBay - MDCC
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Monthly Daft Charity Challenge
MDCC Monthly Daft Charity Challenge This is a monthly competition run by the regular posters of the Ebay Round Table community. Starting on the last Sunday of each month (excl. December) auctions may be listed with MDCC in the title. These are usually for items of greater curiosity than monetary value, and would be expected to fetch less than ?10 in an ordinary auction. All proceeds from these items will be donated to a specified charity or Good Cause of the seller's choosing. The person achieving the highest sale value for any one item will be crowned 'King' or 'Queen' of the RT for a period of one month until the next MDCC.
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eBay Search results MDCC
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New Domain Name Auction site
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IPget.com is a new Free to list, free to buy domain name auction site. They currently accept auction listing for domain names, websites, and webhosting services. You only pay if you sell ( a small fee of 2%). When signing up IPget.com credits your account with $5 that can be used for special features or paying selling costs. They also are building a forum community for their members to discuss domain names and related topics. They also stated they will be giving opportunities for there members to regularly get extra $ into their accounts so that they may take advantage of special features.
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Domain Auction
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Need a Logo or Banner?
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UK Auction Help launches logo design service
The Logo Design page allows people who want Logos, Banners & Auction Templates to send their requirements to our panel of designers.
Use the Logo Design Page to send in your requests and to join our panel of designers.
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Logo Design Page
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