For the sixth week Andrew and Alyssa’s Bargain Basement is participating in the Penny Auction sponsored by Pheebay. A variety of Alternative Auction sites are participating in this promotion including, Zolanta, OkBidNow, Biritz, EBid and ChallengeCoinAuctions.
For this week’s promotion we are offering a Fenton pale pink Basketweave candy dish.
The the other sellers participating at MilBid are Adam’s Military Collectibles, The Rainbowseeker MilBid Shop, The Flyleaf, and Adrianna’s Silver Mine.
Please check out what these sellers have to offer:
A signed copy of AKU, AKU by Thor Heyerdahl,
A NOS Old BEACON BABY BLANKET with BUNNY RABBITS! Original Box – 1950s
A pair of 925 sterling silver charms,
three different Challenge Coins,
a SR-71 Blackbird Black Nickel challenge coin,
U.S Army 3d ESC OIF LNO Triangle Challenge coin
U.S. Army Warrant Officer Field Artillery Targeting Technician coin.
While you are there be sure to check out the rest of the stores you never know what bargains you will find.
To find out more about all the other auction sites participating and the items offered check out the Pheebay.com Penny Auctions Promotion. squidoo lens created by OctaviasOffering.
March 5, 2009 at 12:22 am
My advice would be to focus on one venue, whichever one you are most comfortable on until you have it mastered in every aspect and have succeeded in achieving the first step in your online sales goals.
Your goal might be in number of sales per month or gross sales volume, and which one is not important. What IS important is that you both set a target and write down the target. Then break it down into smaller bites, weekly goals. Don’t obsess, focus.
Put all of your energy into promoting your product, not the venue, by being a good interweb citizen, not spamming but being around will cause natural curiosity and curiosity leads to sales.
Depending on your venue you have fine tuning of your google base feed, your pricing strategy and use of keywords in titles and descriptions to work on.
When it comes to choosing a sales format (auction or fixed price) a lot depends on your product. Most who are set on auction don’t get prices that make it worth the effort, the days of crazy bidding are over. The economy does not help. When you set your minimum bid you are in effect setting the lowest price you can take. If you only get one bid how is that different from setting a realistic fixed price?
For what it is worth I haven’t bid on an online auction in years. Live auctions yes, love em!
I feel a blog post coming on, oh dear!