Auctions

Unhelpful to first time sellers - beware scams

Advantages: one of the top 2 market places to sell you products
Disadvantages: email correspondence / questions from buyers gives them access to you private email address

In my opinion one of the shortcomings of Amazon Marketplace is that when a customer asks a question an email is sent to your personal email address. You reply, then the potential customer / scam has your contact details and can then put a scam in place to `mirror' Amazon Marketplace correspondence. Top five tips - from my point of view - first time sellers... * Be careful when replying to email questions as you are giving direct access info to an ...
...momentum of your first time sale. Pause / think. Does anything look odd in correspondence? / Read Amazon info as it will be quoted back to your face. * Esure you check / make sure that the money transaction is in your account on the Amazon site before posting. Take a screen shot of account / funds if in doubt should you have disagreement with Amazon later. * Only deal with a sale to UK mainland. Never overseas (and especially never never NIGERIA ...

DrDavid 28.06.2009 · Read Full Review
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Review of Amazon.co.uk Marketplace

Compulsory Free P&P on certain categories

Advantages: none
Disadvantages: Compulsory Free P&P on certain categories, complaining very hard, fixed width design: non w3c

Ebay make it compulsory that you have to have free postage and packaging on products in categories like bags and DVDs. But lets you charge what you like in the jewellery category. When you enter something in a category that is enforced by ebay as free p&p it still lets you type in an amount but then throws up the error when you try and submit the listing 'postage cannot be more than £0.00' so why is that field there then? I tried to complain about ...
...in circles trying to find where to make a complaint. The 'Contact us' page is an utter falsehood in name (IMO), you type in a question get given a bunch of completely unrelated options and when you hit the Email Us button then you get this in a pop up message: 'Before we get started, can you tell us about your question or problem in Step 1? That way, we can give you answers right away and show you the best way to contact us for assistance' Well Im ...

polyspiral 05.07.2009 · Read Full Review
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Review of ebay.co.uk

Hardly a rival

Advantages: Competition
Disadvantages: Lack of brand awareness let's them down

As muchas rivals are needed in the auction market, I cannot see eBid troubling Ebay too much. What differentiates them really?? I have been looking into all different types of auction concepts lately in the UK and am facinated by what's out there. Some do seem to be "unusual" others excellent concepts worth investigating. Ebay no longer has many "bargains" left on it and is no turning into a corporate powerhouse so there is room for smaller versions ...
...I have seen lead me to wonder how long before institutions buy them out and ruin the "bargain hunting" potential. I am not aware if this has happened to eBid as yet, more a matter of when than if! To summarise - eBid is nothing new, neither is it anything exciting. ...

jsecure7 08.05.2009 · Read Full Review
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Review of ebid.co.uk

Hidden extras

Advantages: Many items are excellent value for money
Disadvantages: the additional costs take the edge off your bargain

I am not too happy with some of the happenings of these channels. The fact you can only buy one item at a time (or pay P&P and call cost) on another phone. They boast a money back guarantee but they fail to say it doesn't include your P&P. I recently had to return a very cheap item because they sent the wrong size, even their invoice confirmed the size it should have been, but the label on the garment was a size smaller. I called and said I expected ...
...to date I only have the cost of the item, so they have their wrong sized goods back to sell to someone else and I'm out of pocket by £15:00 as I had to pay to return the goods as well - not such a bargain after all. The speed auction is also questionable because they seldom have a clock to show how much time is left - I have seen the auction go on for several seconds after the presenter has said time was up - this leaves it open to higher bidders ...

Tattylashes 06.09.2007 · Read Full Review
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Review of bid-uptv.co.uk

QXL IS GOING DOWN (qxl.co.uk, qxl.dk)

Advantages: i like the new designs
Disadvantages: auction listing charging

QXL IS NOT GETTING MUCH VISITORS ANYMORE I THINK THEY ARE GOING OUT OF BUISNESS. I HAVE NOT USED QXL FOR A YEAR I PREFER EBAY.CO.UK OR THEFASTBID.COM I HAVE NEVER REALLY LIKED QXL. I like qxls design but also with ebay i don't think the sites should charge so much for listing especaily ebay they charge so much when they don't need to they have loads of customers and don't need to have there fees as high as they do same with qxl. To improve qxl i ...

nero5 24.11.2008 · Read Full Review
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Review of qxl.com