Another Auction Site

From: Marvin <marvin_at_rain.org>
Date: Tue Jun 5 22:13:49 2001

The idea here is NOT to take on Ebay or any other site, but rather have a
place where listmembers can bid on items offered to the list first, before
it goes out to an auction "venue" that has more people.

Craig Smith wrote:
>
> Haggle.com is still around but pretty pitiful! I just took a look and
> 99% of the items seem to have ZERO bids and very few have more than 10
> looks even. Even "hot" consumer stuff like laptops didn't seem to draw
> any lookers. Must be tough to try and take on eBay ...even if you offer
> free listings ... who cares if there are no bidders???
> Craig
>
> Russ Blakeman wrote:
> >
> > What ever happened to "haggle" - is it still around and wasn't a member of
> > the list the owner/operator of it?
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> > > [mailto:owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Marvin
> > > Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 12:48 PM
> > > To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> > > Subject: Another Auction Site
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > A new site has just opened up, http://www.sellyouritem.com. I've been
> > > thinking for a while that it would be a good idea to have an auction site
> > > for listmembers. This site
> > > currently has little traffic, and would make a GREAT semi-private :) site
> > > for listmembers to sell their stuff to mostly other listmembers.
> > > One of our
> > > members is currently listing some stuff on the computer:classic area at
> > > http://www.sellyouritem.com/ListAuctions.html?CategoryID=1497.
Received on Tue Jun 05 2001 - 22:13:49 BST

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