For the seller desperate to find an alternative to eBay and lowest fees structure, look no further. Below are 3 promising online auction sites.
Online Auction Site #1: Itemauctions.com
Itemauctions.com is one of the few online closeout locales which has the possibility to truly contend with ebay. Established by Chris Fain, a great barker, Itemauctions.com is planned to help purchasers and merchants flourish in a reasonable and productive online closeout. Itemauctions.com guarantees to
"Keep Itemauctions.com basic and prudent to utilize.
Be less regulating and more steady of our clients.
Press on to improve creative characteristics and devices that are client amicable.
Stay dependable to our clients"
Unlike ebay, Itemauctions.com harges zero posting and last esteem expenses for things sold. Rather, the bartering site requires enrollment: a low month to month expense of $8, or a yearly charge of $196, which brings down to $96 for every year, every year after. The predominant million merchants to pick the yearly enrollment get establishing fathers. This title manages them the same low yearly participation charge ($96) for whatever is left of their offering profession. Unlike ebay, Itemauctions.com don't press on to raise their charges at whatever point they see a chance; an invigorating idea for the disappointed ebay merchant.
Online Auction Site #2: Blujay.com
Blujay.com is a free online auction site. Though Blujay.com doesn't receive nearly as much traffic as onlineauction.com, their listings are catalogued with Froogle. This means that your Blujay store will show up on a Froogle search. Unlike eBay, Blujay stores are also free. The stores aren't elaborate; however, you are free to use minimal HTML and banners to make your store that much more appealing. One nice perk to this online auction site is that listings typically remain active for 180 days and can be automatically relisted once expired. Another great perk about Blujay is that they allow you to offer google checkout and paypal as payment methods. This is advantageous as a seller because there are many disgruntled paypal users that would much rather use google checkout. You are allowed 4 photos with every listing. In keeping with auction fashion, Blujay.com allows you to list items under one of 5 different categories: best offer, firm, negotiable, trade or make an offer. Blujay.com also offers you an HTML store icon that you can use to promote your store on your blog or elsewhere. This free, small, online auction site is worth checking out.
Online Auction Site #3: Overstock.com
Overstock.com, known largely as a place to buy outlet merchandise, also features online auctions. Overstock's fee structure is similar to eBay's old one (as in prior to February 20th, 2008), in that there are listing and final value fees, with comparable prices. From now until the 25th of February, however, Overstock auctions offers reduced listing fees, in what is clearly an attempt to capitalize on the thousands of displaced and disgruntled eBay sellers. Also in similiar eBay fashion, Overstock allows one free photo and 6 additional photos for $.10 each.
