Re: new craft/handmade auction site
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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