Auctions on CMoN

nels0nmac · 10-29-2009, 10:35 AM

So there I was sitting at my table painting away and thinking that I could do with putting some minis up for auction to raise a bit of cash, the usual place being Ebay. Thoughts of having to use the money grabbing b#stards

not making me particularly happy.

Anyway I was thinking that the majority, if not all of the people who bid on the minis have probably followed the link from here. Soooo why not just cut out Ebay and start hosting auctions on this site/a new sister site? Chances are that it would be a lot cheaper than Ebay but still make enough to pay CAs bills or even make him a bit of extra cash. Hint hint.

I dont' think it wouldn't take long for the site to potentially become THE place to go for painted minis / custom sculpts etc.

Question is how difficult is it to set up/program from scratch? I am guessing it is quite complex.

Anyhoo .... thoughts everyone?

PegaZus · 10-29-2009, 11:43 AM

I don't think it is the programming that would problematic, it would the human relations. Refereeing disagreements between buyer and seller, complaints from both, scam auctions, etc. I get a headache just thinking about it. My opinion is that it'd be a major bad idea.

There is http://www.games2trains.com/ that is an alternative. I know people here keep promoting it.

nels0nmac · 10-30-2009, 04:09 AM

Originally Posted by PegaZus

There is http://www.games2trains.com/ that is an alternative. I know people here keep promoting it.

I had a quick look and currently under the 40k section there were about 9 items, none of which were quality painted minis. So that is not going to convince me to use it at the moment.

It might help if this site linked to other auction sites, such as G2T, rather than it just being Ebay. Anything which improves traffic flow to those sites and away from Ebay has got to be a good thing.

PegaZus · 10-30-2009, 07:16 AM

Originally Posted by nels0nmac

I had a quick look and currently under the 40k section there were about 9 items, none of which were quality painted minis. So that is not going to convince me to use it at the moment.

It might help if this site linked to other auction sites, such as G2T, rather than it just being Ebay. Anything which improves traffic flow to those sites and away from Ebay has got to be a good thing.

Yeah, that's why several people here keep trying to get traffic going to that site. It's a catch 22: People don't use it because traffic is low, traffic stays low because people don't use it.

I know it's been suggested in the past to allow links other than eBay, so maybe since CA's in a modifiying mood, we might get this?

demonherald · 11-20-2009, 04:18 AM

I've tried several different auction sites but none get the revenue for me ebay does.. yes they charge a lot but the return is higher I guess the fees do eflect a lot the amount of work that is done to deal with al the relations things on there and the protection there is for buyers and sellers ... It would be great if there were more serious competition to te monster that is ebay and make them think about dropping prices but at the moment they do kind ohave us by the curlies.