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Re: Lego(R) Brick Auction Announcement
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lugnet.market.auction
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Fri, 11 Dec 1998 03:07:55 GMT
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cjc@newsguy.comANTISPAM
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Robert Fries <rpfries@interaccess.com> wrote:
> Well, here's my $0.02 about the Yahoo auction ...
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> * It was *very* time consuming putting the items up there. As you can see by
> the "Auction Start" times, it took over an hour to get approx. 35 items up
> there.
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> * The feature to upload your pictures to their server is nice, but when you
> have as many pictures as I did, it again was time consuming. I would have
> liked to see a wildcard feature, so I could have done *.jpg and been done with
> it.
Yeah, it could definitely use some improvement with respect to
convenience (or lack thereof) for sellers wanting to list multiple
items. Maybe it will improve with time.
> * I haven't found a way to change the bid increment ... this is fine for what
> I'm auctioning, but if I was putting up a $30 set, it would probably make more
> sense to increment in $1 steps than the $0.10 that it defaults to.
That drove me nuts too, and I *know* you can change it because I saw
that someone else had $1 increments but I was stuck with $0.10.
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> The reason that I chose Yahoo is twofold:
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> 1. I have been writing my own auction system as a "spare-time priject." The
> problem is that around Christmas, there is not a lot of spare time.
If you need some help testing, lemme know. The new account I just
setup for my website and domain doesn't include full access to custom
cgi stuff, but if I like how things go for the next couple months I
will probably upgrade to one that does. I know of at least two free
perl script auction engines, one that is entirely web-based, so I will
probably play with them a little when the time comes.
> 2. It was completely free ... if I don't sell anything, I don't owe anyone any
> $ for it.
Yep, always a plus.
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| (...) Well, here's my $0.02 about the Yahoo auction ... * It was *very* time consuming putting the items up there. As you can see by the "Auction Start" times, it took over an hour to get approx. 35 items up there. * The feature to upload your (...) (26 years ago, 10-Dec-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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