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13% |
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48% |
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| Trade/sell forum works fine. Otherwise eBay |
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Cpuswe
Joined: 15 Mar 2005
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Location: Karlskrona, Sweden
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 Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 4:31 pm Post subject: Another try at a auction/sell site? |
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After our first try with a sell/auction site i still think it would be nice to have our own corner for sales. With some functions that the ordinary sale forum lacks, like bidding or having a store.
I have found another software that would give us the possibility to run our own auctions or have our own stores like on eBay. It looks great and the company can show of a bunch of rather big sites running this. It has a far better pricing than the software we tried on g0bs sale, but thats the catch, it cost money, no GPL/Freeware. There are several ways we could go to solve the cost of 140 EUR and i wanted to check this with you.
Donations. Can we get to 140 EUR?
I buy it and uses "per auction" fees of some sort? (No eBaystyle fees, but something to get my money back and perhaps cover some of my server cost and hours spent)
Or perhaps we get by with our sale forum just fine?
Check it here http://www.phpprobid.com/
Edit: Added a poll to make it simpler.
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Joined: 06 Jan 2005
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johnorun
Joined: 04 Apr 2008
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Location: Chicago, IL- US
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If enough members agreed to pay a share, the donations from each of us would be small....2-4 Euros each maybe? Pretty reasonable for a good 24/7 marketplace! 
Thanks for researching this, Thomas! 
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Windmiller
Joined: 24 Jun 2005
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Location: Chapel Hill, NC
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| Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 5:35 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm in. I think it would be a good idea. |
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Chiefish
Joined: 23 Sep 2007
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Location: Northwest N.J. U.S.A
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I think its also a great idea, And i would be willing to throw in a few dollars towards the software. And altho I didnt like the first software , i never said the idea of it wasnt good. I am more than willing to try somthing different.
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Neon_WA
Joined: 08 Nov 2008
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Location: Margaret River, West Australia
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| Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 6:28 pm Post subject: |
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im in
especially cos their conversation from US$ to AUS$ works in my favour US$100 = AUS$53   (mite need to check if only a bug in their demonstration page)
but seriously yes ill throw some $ in
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el_gecko
Joined: 25 May 2005
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How about Google ads? 1 or 2 click per month and per member should cover these fees
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Cpuswe
Joined: 15 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 6:31 pm Post subject: |
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That is an option, but i have ran several sites with ads and based on those, you will have to have far more visitors than i predict this site will have at a start. And placing ads on a site with 10-20 visits per day only makes it ugly and totally not worth it. So as a start i cant rely on ads, but in the future perhaps it can be ads funded.
(One site im currently running has around 30000 unique visitors per month but only brings in around $120-140 of Googleads per month. This is on 180000 page views)
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el_gecko
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Does these 140 EUR are per month? Per year?
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debs3759
Joined: 18 Jan 2006
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Not sure if anyone noticed, but the price is £110, converted at LIVE exchange rates, so whatever the rate is on the day it is paid for, the only currency with a stable price is GBP.
Also, there will be VAT of 15% payable if paid for within the EU. If paid from outside Europe, there is no tax payable. Unfortunately, the license is not transferable, so it could not be bought from within the USA and then donated to Thomas (for example) to save tax....
The quoted price is for an outright purchase of the software with a single license.
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jrmunro
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| Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 8:34 pm Post subject: |
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| I`m in for some money. |
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tlccomp
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| Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 8:45 pm Post subject: |
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| jrmunro wrote: | | I`m in for some money. |
Me too
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Neon
Joined: 04 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 9:24 pm Post subject: |
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That software looks promising.
If you decide to use this, I am willing to donate towards the cost. |
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nessus550
Joined: 26 Sep 2008
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Location: Chirivel, Spain
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Looks interesting. A small donation is better that fees, I am tired of fees of Ebay!!!.
Count with me if wins the donation option.
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michefe
Joined: 13 Feb 2008
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Location: Roma (Italy)
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Hi guys.
I'm writing an auctions' site on ebay style.
I'm quite near the end, and I'll use this free time of vacations to complete it.
I completed:
- all graphic interfaces
- database structure
- lists and view pages
- personal pages
I have to complete the "Make an offer" page and its controls, the "Insert an object" page just for managing images, and check & secure the login session.
Tonight (italian time) I'll put it (with all its bugs) on the web server, to show you some features.
Ciao
michefe
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