Can't add much to what Tom says about Half, except you have to add or modify your stock a little every 3 months or so or they'll close it out if you're not selling anything. Easy enough to do.
I love BidVille. From a seller's perspective it's better than eBay. No fees, one page to fill out info instead of five. Yeah, the traffic is far less than eBay but it relists automatically up to, I believe, 20 times, and you can run month-long auctions, so it's very low-maintenance. The strategy I use is, list stuff with a fair (but not outright cheap) starting bid, then make the BuyItNow what you'd like to get, but not too unreasonably high. A lot of my BidVille sales have been BuyItNow, from people who don't want to wait for the auction to end. Get the bulk-loader if you're planning on listing a lot at once. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Leonard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 8:21 PM Subject: [SWCollect] Half and Bidville experiences? > Anyone used Half.com and has experiences to share? I have some esoteric > (read: crappy) items to list, but I'm not sure they'd fetch more than $4. > (Lest you think I would be wasting my time, I have nearly 100 to sell, so $400 > or more is not chump change.) If I sell something on ebay for $4, and I take > paypal, and I list it properly (software:games and software:vintage), I would > pretty much lose money, I'm sure. So I was wondering if anyone had tried > listing items on half and how well the experience went. > > Along those lines, I see that Chris and others have stuff listed in bidville, > and it seems to be re-listed automatically. Has Chris and others actually > sold stuff there? I was under the impression that their traffic was less than > 2% of ebay's traffic. > > All suggestions welcome. I don't really want to sell lots of 10 because the > entire lot would go for $5 and then I'd feel like an idiot. > -- > Jim Leonard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.oldskool.org/ > Want to help an ambitious games project? http://www.mobygames.com/ > Or check out some trippy MindCandy at http://www.mindcandydvd.com/ > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to > the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' > Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
