eBay has launched Guest Buying to encourage new eBay members to buy stuff.
The benefits of Guest Buying is that you don’t have to register – you can just buy. However, you can’t bid, you can only use Buy it Now, then pay with PayPal.
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eBay launches Guest Buying for unregistered users
November 24, 2007Add an Auction Alfie search form to your website
November 20, 2007Why not add a bit of Alfie goodness to your own website or blog?
It’s easy to include a bit of code to include the auction search gadgets and what’s more you can customise the size and border of the gadget thanks to Google.
Auction Alfie expands auction search to Australia
November 17, 2007Auction 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.
Add an Auction Alfie search box to iGoogle
November 3, 2007
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 gets a new homepage
November 2, 2007
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 auctions gets a website overhaul
October 20, 2007
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.
Even lazy sellers can sell on eBay with Zippi
August 18, 2007Zippi 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
June 19, 2007
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 launches Bid Assistant tool to help buyers win more auctions
May 31, 2007
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.
