Neofree:
I do not see any need for such thing. Seriously.
I have been using eBay and local Swedish online
bidding sites for years now..
I know what I am talking about with these words..
Here is how it works today:
If you live in a large country (DE, FR, UK, US etc)
you have your local eBay-division which has
monopoly of the market, more or less, and
therefore has a huge activity. There you find
whatever you want in your own country.
If you live in a smaller country like SE you may
have a local eBay-divison, however it is usually
administered through some large division
(ebaysweden is under ebay.uk for instance)
which means you have your support and you
xfer the money to some country where you may
not have any idea at all what happens to them.
In your own country you could pay the HQ a visit..
Therefore in smaller countries we have real
local online bidding sites with huge traffic where
you can buy your goods. Of course the selection
is not as huge as eBay International but if you
are looking for something special you simply
pay the extra shipping fees. I got a huge towered
A4000D/040 the other day from eBay.de..
Online auctions only work for the bidders and
sellers when the activity is huge, when you find
tens-of-thousands of objects. Not if you have
a traffic of perhaps 100 uniques/day and maybe
3 auctions with 1, maybe 2 bids.
For the seller small online bidding sites are the
worst possible. Since (in your case Neofree)
the shipping is international anyway it is much
better to sell it on eBay. The fees on eBay are not
that extreme.
For the bidder less bidders is of course a great
opportunity to get cheap goods, however, with
less bidders you will get less sellers and less
objects. The Amiga community is way too small
to have a site like this. It could work on the PC-
market though.
Neofree, I strongly encourage you to not
start this site since you will get very dissapointed
when you see you have no activity on it. Which
means less money for you (if that is your
intension).
But hey, I may be wrong. Launch a site and
see if you get any activity. Just don't get too
involved in it or you will be torn to pieces if/when
noone wants it.
These opinions are based on my experience
with international aswell national bidding and
selling and is in no way intended as flaming.
