Tips for managing online auctions

Advantages: Free - easy to use
Disadvantages: Be wary of fraud/time wasters

...Yahoo auctions is a well-known on-line auction service in the UK. The premise is relatively simple - once you are signed up as a registered user, you can bid for any of the items listed, or list items of your own for sale. Online auctions are very popular, and the volume of traffic through the site has enabled yahoo to develop a slick operating system. Unlike the very popular eBay site, yahoo auctions charge nothing for listings, either as a seller or as a bidder, so there are great savings to be made straight away. Once the auction has closed, yahoo will email both the winning bidder and the seller with each other's email addresses. From here, it is up to the two parties to establish contact, and arrange payment and delivery. Yahoo emphasise that this is strictly between you and the other party - they have no control over bidders...

LostWitness 01.01.2001 · Read review
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Review of auctions.yahoo.com

The Best Online Auction Community

Advantages: The thrill, just like proper auctions
Disadvantages: know someone who was conned

...Overview The e-bay auction community is to date the best online auction that I have come across, i have looked at others like yahoo and freeserve auctions but i must say that they do not even come close to e-bay. They also offer many alternatives for payment such as pay-pal, bid-pay, escrow aswell as the traditional of methods such as cheque or credit card. Layout The layout of this site is excellent, at the top of the page are the user functions such as browse, sell, search and community. At the left of the page are the main categories for the items currently open for auction and the main part of the page are links to the hot picks, featured items and gallery items. The featured items are those the ones that are considered to be very good bargains and the gallery items are the ones which have many pictures of the goods...

Wolfie1974 21.07.2002 · Read review
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Review of ebay.co.uk

Good online auction site

Advantages: good site
Disadvantages: none

...This is a really good online auction site, with really good range of categories to chose from, it couldn’t be easier. I am looking for some play station games or any other miscellaneous items I may find. I found some really good things which I could put a bid in for and it was really easy to do so. The search engine is really good and allows you to search b items available in the UK/ available in pounds/ or items available for the Uk. There are no shipping charges at the site is in the UK, and there’s loads of stuff to bid for: -Antiques and Arts -Books, film and Music -Coins and Stamps -Sports and lot more. You can buy or sell and if you bid gets accepted you are the highest bidder. The prices are ver realistic which makes the sit even better, as it doesn’t promise you low prices and nasty goods....

WAD1-2-3 06.01.2001 · Read review
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Review of ebay.co.uk

Ebay - The online auction

Advantages: Fun to use, easy money
Disadvantages: Can get less than what you wanted

...Ebay is one of the biggest internet sites on the globe, with online auctionhouses for pretty much every country whose name you can pronounce. They make millions and millions though both ebay and paypal (owned by ebay) but its still a great way to get rid of your unwanted goods or to buy the odd niche item. On eBay, customers can buy and sell items auction-style in more than 4,320 categories, including automobiles, collectibles, antiques, sports memorabilia, computers, toys, Beanie Babies, dolls, figures, coins, stamps, books, magazines, music, pottery, glass, photography, electronics, jewelry, gemstones, and much more. Users can find pretty much anything they are looking for on this site, and often at low low prices. People use ebay to sell pretty much anything, from stamps to sweets, so if theres something you can...

roboticdude 11.11.2005 · Read review
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Review of ebay.co.uk

Ebay the "daddy" of online auctions

Advantages: Vast choice and quantity
Disadvantages: You can spend too much!!!!!!

...Ebay.co.uk as the uk site is known is the ?daddy? of the online auctions. I first came to Ebay when Yahoo auctions closed to the dismay of the many sellers like me who had built up a sizeable rating which you need to successfully sell. Anyway I have been on there for two years and in that time I have sold numerous items and purchased many too. The site is huge and has by far the biggest quantity and choice of just about anything you could think of buying. There?s hundreds of honest dealers on there who provide an excellent alternative to high street shopping which I personally hate. My tips for buying on Ebay would be as follows. 1. Look very carefully at the sellers details, particularly at the rating. Click on the rating number to see the history. You can then see if there?s been any past complaints by buyers and how they have...

Derrrrrrr 11.11.2003 · Read review
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Review of ebay.co.uk

"ONLINE AUCTION": CHallenge entry...

Advantages: Great products, great prices IF YOU DO your research
Disadvantages: BUyer beware .there are lots of scams and misleading advertisements

...This review is about EBAY. The reason that I mention "other' online auctions is because this challenge says that it's about "ONLINE AUCTIONS" and there is much more to "ONLINE AUCTIONS than just the EBAY site itself. So I am focusing here on EBAY..but giving hints, advice , facts about 'other ' online auctions and this still remains within the topic area of the challenge of ... "ONLINE AUCTIONS" I list the EBAY.uk website link below this writing and also the EBAY.com website , along with many interesting facts, and references and experiences. Here is my experience with some online auctions: Ebay, probably the largest and most well-known online auction place is an interesting experience. I've heard all the good and all the bad things about Ebay, so I will place some...

myportfolio 12.02.2005 · Read review
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Review of ebay.co.uk

The BEST online auction market place?

Advantages: The best way to advertise and sell your products on the internet, Shop from your computer chair, Sell those useless items that you no longer need or use.
Disadvantages: Time wasters, Fee's, Risks, Ebay staff removing your auctions without any good reason.

...In reply to the question above the answer has to be yes and no. This is based solely on my personal experience of EBay. I use the .co.uk site as this offers more items then and post to locations than any of the other EBay websites. If you want to fall asleep no I would as this might take you about 30 minutes to read and digest. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WHAT IS EBAY? For those of you who don?t know, EBay is one of the largest online auctions websites in the world with over 3 Million listings per day. If you wish to buy or sell on eBay you can. You can also do both if you wanted to. WHAT IS THE SITE LAYOUT LIKE? The website layout is one of the best features. It?s easy to use for new users. Like any other website...

Sexy_Young_God 17.07.2004 · Read review
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Review of ebay.co.uk

the king of online auction sites **UPDATED**

Advantages: Loads of sellers, buyers, bargins andf rare stuff
Disadvantages: Timewasters, Cons, Links, Postage, Risks........

...a specific category. You can also browse each category, for example you can view every single game available. You can also do an advanced search, like the one on google where you can be more specific in what you are searching for. You can also search ebay shops; these have a continuous flow of products for sale, usually of the same type, brand or style. It also has common searches and keywords to browse by towards the bottom of the Buy page. Sell- If you click on Sell at the top of ebay's main page then it will navigate you to a page where you can list your auction on the site and add pictures if you want to. To do this you must register with ebay first. You can sell anything you want, when you want to and as little or as much as you want! You can choose whether you want to sell your item as an auction (with bids) or as a Buy-It-Now (set...

Delboy2005 04.06.2005 · Read review
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Swapits - Have you tried this yet?

Advantages: No Money Involved, Good Costumer Service.
Disadvantages: A Few Untrustworthy People.

...What is SwapitShop? Well it is an online auction site for kids and teenagers. You can buy and sell things using the virtual currency sawpits. As it is virtual currency it does not mean you buy virtual things, you get real things. Once you sign up you receive 10 swapits from SwapitShop, which to be honest is hardly anything. After that there are 2 main ways to earn swapits. One of them is to use codes. You get these codes in magazines like, Matchmag, It's Hot and Top Of The Pops. You maybe thinking well I don't buy these magazines so I won't get the swapits. Well if you go on http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=133325&page=1&pp=10&highlight=swapits , people post the codes on there. So you can get the Swapits without even buying the magazine. The other way to get swapits is to sell items on there and I will tell you about...

lfc-4-ever 04.04.2006 (10.04.2006) · Read review
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Review of Swapits Online Auctions

THE ONLINE AUCTIONEER'S BEST FRIEND

Advantages: Cheap, wide range of services, national coverage
Disadvantages: Lack of support for online retailers - big difference between standard and recorded mail

...day later than normal, but I don’t really see the truth in this. Once again, I hold to the belief that a business that is financially susceptible to a day’s delay in payment is probably not going to last that long anyway. During the time that I have been auctioning items on eBay I have had to post several hundred CDs to winning bidders. I also often order items online and unfortunately, sometimes have to send these items back. There is currently a bit of a grey area when returning items, as you have to pay an additional 63p per item to send a letter or parcel via recorded delivery. You might be interested to know that even if you take out recorded delivery, you are still only offered cover up to £27 as a standard level of compensation. My advice when posting or returning items is not to bother with recorded delivery for items...

LostWitness 28.12.2002 · Read review
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