Goodbye Bidville
Jun. 9th, 2008 01:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
isabelladangeloWww.bidville.com will be dead in the water as of June 13,2008. I joined bidville about 4 years ago. I tried selling on it, opening a store, and bought a few things but it just never really caught on as the "e-bay alternative" it was supposed to be. Despite around 1m auctions, it didn't fit in with the u-bid business model and they are closing it down quickly.
www.etsy.com seems like it might be slightly better but it's still a "oh pretties! Not ebay!" type front and I'm afraid that, unless it becomes a lot more popular, it too will go down like yahoo, overstock, and now bidville auctions.
The thing is, I have noticed that although there are more auction on E-bay now than ever before on average, the amount of items being sold is down. I know I'm not buying off of ebay much anymore since they changed their policies. I might be able to find good cheap fabric there but I can also wait for a coupon from fabric.com and now what and whom I'm dealing with. (The guys that work at fabric.com are great!) I know they don't cheat on shipping and what they say the fabric is, it is. Besides, $4 linen? Beautiful!
So, I guess my question is, are on-line auctions slowly going the way of the do-do bird? Is there a day soon when we won't have ebay? Are craigslist and these online shopping malls finally getting their footing enough to be competitive against the e-bay giant?
www.etsy.com seems like it might be slightly better but it's still a "oh pretties! Not ebay!" type front and I'm afraid that, unless it becomes a lot more popular, it too will go down like yahoo, overstock, and now bidville auctions.
The thing is, I have noticed that although there are more auction on E-bay now than ever before on average, the amount of items being sold is down. I know I'm not buying off of ebay much anymore since they changed their policies. I might be able to find good cheap fabric there but I can also wait for a coupon from fabric.com and now what and whom I'm dealing with. (The guys that work at fabric.com are great!) I know they don't cheat on shipping and what they say the fabric is, it is. Besides, $4 linen? Beautiful!
So, I guess my question is, are on-line auctions slowly going the way of the do-do bird? Is there a day soon when we won't have ebay? Are craigslist and these online shopping malls finally getting their footing enough to be competitive against the e-bay giant?
