Re: [CR]Alternate Web based selling tool

(Example: Racing:Roger de Vlaeminck)

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From: "Mark Buswell" <mark@sisuhome.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Alternate Web based selling tool
Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 19:08:30 -0700
To: oroboyz@aol.com
cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

Advertising? Though there seems to be only a little of that.

Mark Buswell San Francisco, CA USA

On May 22, 2007, at 6:57 PM, oroboyz@aol.com wrote:
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Zatezalo <nickzz@mindspring.com>
> To: CR List <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> Sent: Tue, 22 May 2007 9:17 pm
> Subject: [CR]Alternate Web based selling tool
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> http://buy.audiogon.com/
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> This site has eclipsed ebay as the web based marketplace and
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> The interesting thing is that most sales are not auction based.
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> asking price or best offer listing and let the buyers decide what
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> Internet based auction selling is so old school.
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> Nick Zatezalo
> Atlanta,Ga.US
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> Subject: Re: [CR]Is 'Bicycle Trader Classified' - another
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> Surely eventually Ebay will lose the serious collector and
> specialty niche
> markets to auction sites with expertise in-house. Ebay lacks the
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> even seeming interest in running a well managed auction site. If
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> anyone knowledgable in the respective fields keeping an eye on the
> auctions
> running, virtually none of the scams it is plagued with could
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> being dead obvious to anyone versed in the niche. All they've got
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> them is their size- which admittedly is a lot.
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> The problem, it seems to me is, each niche can only realistically
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> one or maybe two online sales/auction venues. If one needs to
> search six or
> seven different sites to see the market in whole, few will bother.
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> with Ebay's primacy, there's only one marketplace that matters which
> massively simplifies things for both buyer and seller. And even if
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> vintage bicycle sales/auction site emerged supreme among
> collectors, you'd
> still need to scan Ebay for those attic and barn finds sold by people
> unfamiliar with the market where the true bargains are often to be
> found. A
> site run and frequented by knowledgable, savvy collectors will be
> no place
> to bargain hunt I reckon.
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> Kurt Sperry
> Bellingham WA
> USA
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