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Re: new craft/handmade auction site
 

Must try more to stay on topic.


Stick to getting crafty's site going please....

:focus:

Re: new craft/handmade auction site
 

lol thanks its all good

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Sub categories under Vintage?

I looked and did not see any.

What are you doing to attract buyers from other countries such as from the USA?

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Sub catergories are there.

For some strange reason they are only visable to members but we are working on that.

We're promoting in the usa and we have the contacts .

We have 10 members at the moment 5 of them are from the usa with many more to follow.

We'll be alot better once we get the .com domain.

We have to wait till it's available.

Re: new craft/handmade auction site
 

Shipping concessions would help for international attraction...

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That might not ever be sold or expired.

Hope it does because your name is a very good one.

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we do have a wide range of shipping for international available to our members

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the .com we know is it for renewel in august
we are going to keep an eye on it an see if it does get renewed/sold

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I hate to be the one that tells you this, but since nobody else has, someone has to.

You will never have success with the auction format if you are just starting out with a new website. Etsy was in a unique position when they started because they were the first such marketplace.

It's the same as with the chicken and the egg. What came first?

If you have no bidders, sellers will not list. And if you do get sellers to list and all their auctions end with 0 bids, they will move elsewhere (Etsy, for example). Even if you do get a bidder on an item, there's almost no chance that you will get 2 of them pushing up the price. Almost no auction sellers want to sell their items at the starting price.

I hope you understand what I mean. Don't take this the wrong way, I'm just trying to help. In my opinion, you need to re-think your entire business model if you care about succeeding.

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we know it will take time to even get the members build up the auctions an get the buyers/sellers onto site
we have the patience to wait an we will
it will be hard but were not going anywhere we will continue to try an grow
an give the people an alternative unlike other auction sites you see come an go
we decided to go for the niche which makes us abit different

How many sellers to date?

Slowly building then - nice - advertising campaign up?

we have 12 to date
we have some new categories to do over weekend an sellers will be way up after

advertisings going nice
we have got 1000 flyers which will be ready on tuesday
we ve joined an advertised on more craft groups on facebook
1 was the etsy group
we have also contacted a few craft websites an just awaiting on some prices
so that we can have a banner advertising on there sites

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Good way to attack the ad space - flyers...where?

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thanks for the information, will see about that

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500 flyers are been sent to different counties in the uk
the other 500 are been sent out in the united states we already have people who are prepared to sent them out across there

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Counties targeted - nice plan then...USA needs a lot more exposure then

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1000 flyers is not enough.

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Your website is not taking off and you need to figure out why.

Just by connecting with sellers on Facebook and Twitter, you should be pulling in dozens of sellers every day just with word of mouth.

You launched over 1 month ago and you don't even have 1 product listed on the website yet.

I am not trying to be an @$$ here but you clearly need to radically change your tactics and overall business strategy.

Re: new craft/handmade auction site
 

who are you ?
an why you saying things against us a month is nothing to an auction world things will happen but will take take time
i just want to know what your problem is ????

Re: new craft/handmade auction site
 

Hey..... you asked for comments, not pats on the back.

Your problem might be perceived you do not want critques only Pollyanna replies.

This is not an easy venture as I understand you realize.

Go over what has been said. Consider the validity. Or do your own thing.

Good Luck
:peace:

Re: new craft/handmade auction site
 

It isn't an easy venture OP but you are slowly building - takes time and you seem to be readying yourself for battle :thumb:

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i do apologise and thanks
we will over whats been said