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Advantages: Get a bargain!
Disadvantages: Some bad sellers

Introduction ~~ Internet auctions websites have become quite popular over the past few years and there seems to be more and more auction websites springing up all over the net. QXL is one of the best known British auction websites and in my opinion one of the best. Whether you're after a cheap mobile phone deal, a last-minute holiday, garden furniture or a computer at a rock-bottom price QXL has it. The QXL website ~~ The QXL website is well-designed ... Read review

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...I put it on the Qxl.com site and in essence forget about it. When the closing date came and the auction had ended. I received a SMS text message saying that the item had been bought for £70 which was excellent. In fact the person who bided for it lived in my area, even the internet is a small place so delivery wasn’t that much. I was posted the cheque and he got his CD walkman. Everyone happy all around. I had to pay £2.50 to qxl.com for ... Read review

Advantages: Get a bargain, variety of products
Disadvantages: Risk factor - quality of product? reliability of third party?

We all like to pick up a bargain – there’s something satisfying about paying less for the same product. My bargain hunting on the Internet was mainly confined to searching various online stores, searching for the lowest prices. I then discovered online price comparison sites, such as Shopsmart and Kelkoo. These took the work out of finding bargains myself, as they displayed prices from various shops and showed me the potential saving. ... Read review

Advantages: sell your unused items
Disadvantages: see review

Online auctions have become extremely popular with sites such as Ebay, Ebid and QXL all springing up to allow you to the items you no longer have use for. Ebay is probably the ‘grand father’ and best known of the auction sites, and indeed is worldwide. There are differences between Ebay and QXL which penetrate deeper than the surface colour of the site. So what can you sell on QXL? Basically anything, from DVD’s and video to Antiques and ... Read review

Advantages: simple search for potential bargains
Disadvantages: might have to give credit card detail at the very begining

QXL.com is the British part a pan-European auction company that runs in 13 countries. It’s free to join and the registration process is very simple. You need to give an email address and they will send you spurious junk fairly frequently – so use a spare account rather than your work or main personal accounts. You are given a membership number and you select a username so make sure if you join you keeps these safe! The site itself is ... Read review

Advantages: get rid of all those things cloggig up the spare room
Disadvantages: same risks as buying anything from the internet

www.qxl.com QXL is a UK based auction site - although there is the equivalent site for various European countries. The basic idea is you place items you don’t want anymore on the site for other people to bid on, and you bid on items that you want - nice and easy. Actually it is nice and easy. You have to register to be able to bid, but this only takes a couple of minutes. If you want to sell, then you have to give your credit card details ... Read review

Advantages: cheap to sell, and without fees to buy, ratings
Disadvantages: you get outbid by other customers! :-)

QXL is great for all you would-be Del Trotters. No more running around with your battered old suitcase avoiding the coppers, you can simply sell all your hooky gear online! This is many people's opinion on online auctions, but couldn't really be further from the truth. The truth with QXL is that you can find new and used goods at substantial savings to the high street, and QXL have safeguards in place to make sure you get what you pay for. If ... Read review

Advantages: Some amazing bargains, mainly safe, secure, well laid out
Disadvantages: I suspect that some of what's sold is stolen (I have no proof to back this up though), there's a huge scope for things to go wrong!

QXL is the best auction site in the UK by far in my opinion. It's well laid out, it's insured (if the item you order doesn't turn up) is also very good. I must say I prefered the site before they re-designed it about 6 months ago (when everything was bright orange)- but I don't suppose it makes a big difference! I picked up an Ondigital (tomorrow to be ITV Digital) box 12 months ago for £35, that's £85 below the shop price at the time. However ... Read review

Advantages: Good bargains to be had
Disadvantages: Cant view goods only pictures

I have been using QXL the auction site for quite some time. Registration is very easy as long as you dont mind giving your credit card details. So far I have purchased items ranging from a computer to a coffee maker and everything has always arrived in very quick time exactly as advertised. The computer purchased was a Pentium 3 450(Packard Bell) with 64 meg of ram ,8.4 GB hard-drive, Voodoo 3 Graphics card, Windows 98SE, Microsoft works and one year ... Read review

Advantages: reach a lot more people than the traditional newspaper
Disadvantages: people win auctions then dont actaully buy the item

I have been a lurker/bargain hunter on the QXL site for some time. I have never actually bought anything from it yet. Spotted some bargains but always been out bit unfortunately. However last week when I realised I was strapped for cash this month I decided to try out being a seller on QXL. So I looked through my things and found a portable CD player and a Sega Saturn. So I set up my account and arranged an auction. I took the default time, ... Read review

Advantages: Reaches wide range of potential purchasers, cheap service
Disadvantages: Closing the deal isn't always easy - if the purchaser backs out then tough luck

I recently sold a guitar with www.qxl.co.uk and had quite a good experience of this method of trading. I put the instrument at a reserve price of 350 and sold it for 360 - OK, not a massive increase but had I advertised in traditional media, a. it would have cost me quite a bit to place the advert, and b. the offer price would probably be less than the asking price, not more. The offer I accepted was from a chap who worked about 20 minutes away from ... Read review

Advantages: Very Easy To Use
Disadvantages: There are some small prints

...been a member of the QXL.com community for over a year now, and would like to share some of my experiences with you so that if you choose to bid in an auction on this site, you know what to expect. Firstly, I will start by saying that I trust QXL. I registered, but chose not to include my credit card details first of all, for obvious reasons. I started by bidding in some smaller auctions, not always successfully at first because I was worried ... Read review