A_Iverson_I
OzCardTrader
Hey guys...... with all the talk about QuickSales I have been thinking, thought it may sound stupid at first and I wondered even if I should post up the idea, but why not start our own auction type site!?
At first you think, well what's the point of that when any idiot out there can grab an auction script and setup a crappy site that will get no traffic and go nowhere!?
Well, I think our situation is a little different. The way I see it is with the way a massive amount of people here and elsewhere are so peeved with ebay et al we can get a good support going for it.
I'm thinking the site would be run by many of the OCT members here (kinda like the board of governors
The thing with QuickSales and most other sites is they have got some sellers, but no buyers. This leads to the sellers just listing up crappy cards because they don't want to risk any good cards they put up going for peanuts; so the sites never get anywhere.
If a big group of collectors were REALLY behind the site you would be listing up a lot of your cards there and because a lot of us want to see another option to feebay we could also make sure to utilize the site to bid on other members auctions... once people outside this immediate group see this, the site may actually start to get more and more sellers and bidders.
Now I don't expect anyone to list any high-end cards (without using something like "Buy It Now"), but to beat out sites like QuickSales and to make it a bit interesting you could be listing up stuff like average to goo GU cards, common to average autos etc etc
I would be more than happy to administer and host the site on my VPS server and also develop parts of the site seeing as I do web development for a living. I'm not a designer though so any design work would have to be paid for.
Now there is the subject of site costs..... I think if enough people were interested in supporting this idea then I think any costs involved with the site would be very very manageable. If the site had 10-15 "investors" then any costs really would be quite low when shared amongst the group.
The only questions being........ do we restrict the site to cards only or...........?
So......... am I being overly optimistic here or is this something that is doable!?
At first you think, well what's the point of that when any idiot out there can grab an auction script and setup a crappy site that will get no traffic and go nowhere!?
Well, I think our situation is a little different. The way I see it is with the way a massive amount of people here and elsewhere are so peeved with ebay et al we can get a good support going for it.
I'm thinking the site would be run by many of the OCT members here (kinda like the board of governors
The thing with QuickSales and most other sites is they have got some sellers, but no buyers. This leads to the sellers just listing up crappy cards because they don't want to risk any good cards they put up going for peanuts; so the sites never get anywhere.
If a big group of collectors were REALLY behind the site you would be listing up a lot of your cards there and because a lot of us want to see another option to feebay we could also make sure to utilize the site to bid on other members auctions... once people outside this immediate group see this, the site may actually start to get more and more sellers and bidders.
Now I don't expect anyone to list any high-end cards (without using something like "Buy It Now"), but to beat out sites like QuickSales and to make it a bit interesting you could be listing up stuff like average to goo GU cards, common to average autos etc etc
I would be more than happy to administer and host the site on my VPS server and also develop parts of the site seeing as I do web development for a living. I'm not a designer though so any design work would have to be paid for.
Now there is the subject of site costs..... I think if enough people were interested in supporting this idea then I think any costs involved with the site would be very very manageable. If the site had 10-15 "investors" then any costs really would be quite low when shared amongst the group.
The only questions being........ do we restrict the site to cards only or...........?
So......... am I being overly optimistic here or is this something that is doable!?