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[minimaff]

Sign up folk at www.bidfolk.co.uk


Lets start a revolution....................


Free Listings.................


Sell your unwanted mini spares.....................


Shops or stores welcome also......................

[hystrix cristata]

what protection do you give buyers and sellers?

What because Ebay protects the buyers and sellers don't they !!!!!!! Not . And then they charge you though the nose for Paypal which doesn't offer much protection either!!!!

I've never had a problem with ebay. I didn't get sent something once and paypal gave me my money back what more could I ask for?
Maybe I was asking to see if they could match or better ebay as protection should be on the top of any buyer or sellers list when using something like this.

Thanks for the reply minimaff

[minimaff]

I guess giving protection is hard as its between you and the seller etc, we same as ebay only list your items............... but im sure once we have been doing it for a long time we will learn, same as ebay have over the years..............

[chrisgonz1]

so this is the same as ebay? still have to pay and all that? what are your fees? how do you make money. i cant seem to find it on www.bidfolk.co.uk

Edit: sorry just found fees at the bottom of page

Edited by chrisgonz1, 14 January 2010 - 09:36 AM.

[chrisgonz1]

bidfolk.co.uk fees:

Auction Fees
Listing Fee
From GBP 0.01 To GBP 1.00 0.00%
From GBP 1.00 To GBP 5.00 0.00%
From GBP 5.00 To GBP 25.00 0.00%
From GBP 25.00 To GBP 100.00 0.00%
From GBP 100.00 To GBP 500.00 0.00%
From GBP 500.00 To GBP 5,000.00 0.00%
From GBP 5,000.00 To Above 0.00%
End of Auction Fee - Paid by Seller
From GBP 0.01 To GBP 49.99 8.00%
From GBP 50.00 To GBP 599.99 5.00%
From GBP 250.00 To GBP 1,000.00 2.50%
From GBP 600.00 To GBP 99,999,999,999,999.98 1.50%
Additional Category Fee GBP 0.20
Images Upload Fee GBP 0.10
Highlighted Item Fee GBP 0.20
Bold Item Fee GBP 0.10
Category Featured Fee GBP 0.30
Home Page Featured Fee GBP 0.50
Item Swap Fee GBP 2.00
Buy Out Fee GBP 0.20
Make Offer Fee GBP 0.20
Custom Start Time Fee GBP 0.05
Media Upload Fee GBP 1.00
Relisting Fees Reduction 100.00%
Seller Verification Fee GBP 1.50, recurring every 365 days
Wanted Ad Setup Fee GBP 0.50

Store Account Types
Free Store 1 items, Price: -, flat fee
Basic Store 2 items, Price: GBP 2.00, recurring every 30 days
Medium Store 10 items, Price: GBP 3.00, recurring every 30 days
Advanced Store 50 items, Price: GBP 10.00, recurring every 30 days
Expert Store 200 items, Price: GBP 30.00, recurring every 30 days, [ Featured Store ]
Platinum Store 500 items, Price: GBP 60.00, recurring every 30 days, [ Featured Store ]

[Guess-Works.com]

Good luck with your venture...

Just one thing tho' until you posted I had heard nothing about it... not being funny but your publicity of the site is fairly poor... do a google on Bidfolk and this thread is third in the list...

From a trader point of view, where is the value in me advertising or selling items on a site where the expected client base is very small, especially compared to ebay which reaches hundreds of millions of people

[minimaff]

Thanks Simon for joining www.bidfolk.co.uk

start listing items and let your friends know
about our new uk based site

[minimaff]

The site is in testing mode at the moment, until we start marketing the site. I started the post on here to inform members about the new site other than the big one which we all use.............

Every one started somewhere the same as ebay did 12 years ago...........


The benefits of trading with us at the minute are that you can list items with a FREE reserve and FREE auto realist so you can sit back knowing it wont cost you a penny until your item sells. This is obviously to get our site growing and in time it will be a great place to trade.

[chrisgonz1]

sounds fair enough. I guess the more people know about it, the bigger it will grow. Just keep posting everywhere on tinternet, and i mean everywhere! use things like stumbleupon, which is very popular. i always stumble onto great sites.

[minimaff]

Yeah cheers for that Chris, have up joined yet?

Get the word out there, my facebook friends know, so if you would be kind enough to let your friends know and so on that would be great.

Our goal is to be like ebay, it may take 12 years like them, but what the hell lets have ago...

We offer movie uploads also, so you can show videos of working things such as a kids quad bike, or rc car etc, this shows the buyer it works lol

Thanks again

Matthew
www.bidfolk.co.uk

Edited by minimaff, 14 January 2010 - 01:14 PM.

[yeti21586]

lol have just been on it and theres 2 things for sale hehehe

[minimaff]

There is only 3 items because it just started yesterday, until we start to market it, people dont know its online.......

as any business go have to to start somewhere. Same as when this forurm started bet it didnt have over 2k memebrs first day did it.......

cheers for the support guys........

[Bean]

Once the domain is established, it'll be easier in SEO terms, to market the site - Maybe think about looking at the Google tools - Adwords etc? Delve into the PPC department, too?

How much SEO work have you done on the site?

I think it'd be great to have an alternative to eBay, but just make sure that you can offer buyers and sellers all the protection and support that they need - Make sure you can be contacted and don't get too big too quick! Oh, and don't have too many overheads - The thing that puts everyone off eBay is the price - If you can start small and stay that way, then go for it!!

I like the design of the site - it's clean & modern... but, personally, I think the header section could use some work and you really need a very catchy logo.


It won't happen over-night, but I say Go for it!

Everyone has to start somewhere!!

[minimaff]

Thank you Bean

Nice to get some positive feedback, i no the countrys in a mess etc, and we are just try to make a living and save people some money.

Thanks for the support and advice

We just need people to start listing items etc, its free to list and re list 4 times, so come on guys take advantage.......

Lets bring down a Giant......

[minimaff]

Start a online store at :

www.bidfolk.co.uk/stores.php