Auction Alfie has expanded it’s auction search tool to include Australian auction websites.
Australian auction and bargain hunters can now search eBay, eBid, Oztion and Gumtree with ease, making sure they get the best prices in the cheapest online auctions.
The auction and classified market is huge in Australia and Auction Alfie is keen to add more of the best Australian auction websites in the near future. Let us know which sites you would like to see included.
If you have a customised Google homepage (iGoogle) and you love Alfie you can now join them in harmony by adding the Auction Alfie Google Gadgets.
There are both US and UK gadgets to help you search the best auction websites.
Add the gadgets
Enjoy.
eBay has unveiled its new homepage design.
The new design is very clean and functional. It retains the product drilldown navigation but also includes features similar to Amazon’s recommendation modules.
Tazbar.com has launched a new brand and website. According to Tazbar the new website is “will have the new logo and colour scheme. New control panel, complete new help system, complete new place advert and advert pages. There are a number of navigational changes that you will soon become familiar with.”
Indeed, the site is slightly easier to use but does break on certain screen resolutions, so you may have to scroll down through lots of blank space to find what you’re looking for.
You can still search Tazbar with Auction Alfie’s auction search to compare the products with other auction websites like eBay, uBid and eBid.
Zippi is a new service aimed at ‘lazy’ sellers or people who have stuff to sell but really can’t be bothered to spend time taking all the photos and listing the items on eBay.
Well, how does it work?
In the words of Zippi: “Zippi will zip on over, pick everything up and sell it all on eBay for you. We take care of the whole process, start to finish.”
Of course, you pay for this service but if you have enough to sell then it could certainly pay off.
Yahoo! US Auctions has finally closed down. This is a real shame for sellers wanting a free alternative to selling stuff on eBay.
Who will take their place?
Well I should imagine both eBid.net and uBid.com will rise to the challenge in an attempt to rival eBay but time will tell. Stay tuned.
Check out other auction sites.
eBay has launched the Bid Assistant tool which allows buyers to create ‘groups’ of similar items in their Watch-lists that they would like to bid on. Buyers set a maximum bid amount then hand over the auction bidding to eBay. eBay will then bid on each item successively in chronological order until it wins one of the items in the group. Then the Bid Assistant stops and you pay for the winning item.
The Bid Assistant tool will certainly benefit buyers who don’t mind which of a group of items they buy – such as when they are watching a number of Ninendo Wii’s for sale and don’t mind which one they buy.
uBid.com has been added to Auction Alfie’s tabbed auction search.
US shoppers can now compare products on uBid.com with ebay.com, ebid.net, Tazbar.com, InetBid.com and Liquidation.com.
uBid.com offers new, overstock and refurbished merchandise in their online auctions from established businesses. uBid.com currently offers around 200,000 items for auction.
uBid.com offers brand-name merchandise spanning over 200 merchandise categories including computer products, consumer electronics, apparel, housewares, watches, jewelry, travel, sporting goods, home improvement products and collectibles. More about ubid.
Sellers using Tazbar auctions can now attach Google Checkout to their seller account to get much cheaper transaction processing fees.
Introducing this choice for sellers is great news. At the time of writing the Google Checkout fee is 2%, whereas PayPal is 4.9% in the US (3.4% in the UK).
More information on transaction fees:
Unfortunately, Yahoo! Auctions has announced that it is to turn off it’s US and Canada auction bidding service as of 16th June 2007.
The last day to sell an item is 3rd June 2007.
This is a shame as Yahoo! Auctions proved to be an extremely popular auction site for people who preferred not to use eBay.
We will have to wait and see where eBay‘s next competition comes from – will it be uBid.com or eBid.net or will the classifieds rise and rule the used/second-hand markets?
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