Online Auction
Online auction sites are not a new phenomenon; Ebay, Craigslist and Amazon have been providing the gambling, shopping experience for years now. There are now however new auction alternatives regularly being released that are worth looking into. These have started to include variations on the auctioning format, with speed buying, limited time auctions, buy it now buttons and the traditional bidding system.
If you get your kicks buying and selling online then Gobidit.com will certainly give you that nosebleed, head rush, shopping fix. It is defined as being as co-operative webmall experience. With the offer of no listing fees and no bidding fees they is an element of curious attraction to it.
At present the site is free to register and no commission charges for 6 months but the idea is to charge a low membership fee and small level of commission each month, 3.5%. There is however, as with all co-operatives a dividend awarded to all members at the end of the year.
For those professional online salespeople they offer an excellent opportunity for expanding your sales network and include some useful widgets to assist in promoting your wares. You can download programs for advertising goods; they have a blog page and are establishing a social networking platform for discussions. It is also possible to link in with your existing Ebay storefront account by simply adding the URL.
Whether these will match the success of the bigger, more famous sites is yet to be seen but while they are there and costs are low it doesn’t hurt to try them out.
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