R2R Member Auctions In the Classifieds Idea Thread

[afrokobe]

how about raffle option? example. $500 item with 20 spots @ $25 per spot. this would be better than auction IMO. ebay has auctions. unless your trying to generate revenue for the form and charging fee's per auction like ebay? you could still charge fees for raffles if that's the case.

Absolutely not. I am completely sick and tired of all the raffles on facebook and instagram. Raffles are a ripeoff, a way for vendors to charge more for a single piece of coral, and to incentive more people to jump in at a lower price point with no guarantee of winning.

I don't need buying corals to be a gamble, if i wanted to gamble I will hit up the stock market or the casino. I absolutely despise raffles.

Charity raffles on the other hand are fine, but raffles should not be your primary means of selling.

 

[glency]

If you do allow auctions, please let there be punishment for non payment. I already see that being a problem.

 

[MT. Reefer]

I used to love Ebay, but no more. Ebay has turned into an online store with minimums a lot of times being more than what the item is worth. All auctions should start at either $ .99, $9.99 or $99.99 and that's it. If you want an online store, go to Ebay. If you want a TRUE AUCTION, DO NOT USE RESERVES! And don't extend the closing time. That's when all the real bids come in.

 

[Vinman]

I love snipers.

 

[Bundler77]

Not any clue how it works on Ebay, as far as implementing it, but being able to put in a max bid, that is activated to stay as the winner, but only over the losing bid by $1.00, so the auction ends on time, the winner gets the item sooner, and the auction starter gets the money, sooner?

 

[Opus]

Absolutely not. I am completely sick and tired of all the raffles on facebook and instagram. Raffles are a ripeoff, a way for vendors to charge more for a single piece of coral, and to incentive more people to jump in at a lower price point with no guarantee of winning.

I don't need buying corals to be a gamble, if i wanted to gamble I will hit up the stock market or the casino. I absolutely despise raffles.

Charity raffles on the other hand are fine, but raffles should not be your primary means of selling.

I agree. It has gotten so bad on our local facebook reef sites that they are doing raffles to get a spot in the main raffle. That just generates more profit for the person doing the raffle. They say it is so that more people can afford a spot in the main raffle.
Also I believe raffles are illegal in some states unless done for charity type things. I could be wrong but I think our local reef club got into trouble because they had raffles at their monthly meetings.

 

[Opus]

I used to love Ebay, but no more. Ebay has turned into an online store with minimums a lot of times being more than what the item is worth. All auctions should start at either $ .99, $9.99 or $99.99 and that's it. If you want an online store, go to Ebay. If you want a TRUE AUCTION, DO NOT USE RESERVES! And don't extend the closing time. That's when all the real bids come in.

I haven't run into that too much. Most of the stuff I want I will only do buy it now just because I'm lazy. Also I've learned if you put buy it now items in your cart and leave them, sometimes the seller will send you an offer that is 10 to 20% lower. What irks me the most are a lot of them seem to make it so they earn most of their profit off the shipping they charge.

 

[monkeyCmonkeyDo]

I'm not on the local fb coral group so I'd appreciate more of a localized selling point. Silent or loud auction.
Local pick up only. Actually get ppl meeting face to face. You don't like. Don't participate. Sniping is part of auctions. Agree or don't as well. Lol.
I like the low reserve idea and I like the bid increments being set.
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[afrokobe]

I agree. It has gotten so bad on our local facebook reef sites that they are doing raffles to get a spot in the main raffle. That just generates more profit for the person doing the raffle. They say it is so that more people can afford a spot in the main raffle.
Also I believe raffles are illegal in some states unless done for charity type things. I could be wrong but I think our local reef club got into trouble because they had raffles at their monthly meetings.

Agreed, ive seen the mini raffles too and it's just disgusting. if you calculate how much the coral would cost by # of tickets x raffle price, the corals are almost always overpriced by a lot.

 

[trevorhiller]

I hate when my item on the most popular online auction site ends with a few “sniper” bids just before auction closing instead of bidding it up over time. That said, I like how one site I follow does it where there is a published auction ending day & time and beginning at that time the auction will end 2 minutes after the last bid is received.

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I agree with this idea. Has a seller, it prevents you from getting low balled by tech savvy people and screws over people who don’t have the opportunity to access the computer every minute of the day.

 

[moorjames]

Please make the shipping (or other costs) widely known on the listing so people don't buy a coral for $1 but have to pay $99 for shipping, etc.

 

[kalare]

I don't like auctions as a buyer. The lure of great stuff for bargain prices is awesome but you usually end up paying more. Personally I think they'll serve to sensationalize the marketplace and make it exciting at the cost of some hobbyists having a lower chance of finding what they want here. People will keep bidding up that new coral cause they want it and see the hype on the bids, then it will sell high. People in the marketplace will use recent auction prices to price their items and things may end up costing more and more. I've seen this in other hobbies that I have. It's a major bummer...

 

[Sean Clark]

If you do allow auctions, please let there be punishment for non payment. I already see that being a problem.

Also how would you keep a "new user" that just signed up from messing with the auctions to then vanish and not pay? Maybe some kind of vetting process prior to being able to bid?

 

[Sean Clark]

I don't like auctions as a buyer. The lure of great stuff for bargain prices is awesome but you usually end up paying more. Personally I think they'll serve to sensationalize the marketplace and make it exciting at the cost of some hobbyists having a lower chance of finding what they want here. People will keep bidding up that new coral cause they want it and see the hype on the bids, then it will sell high. People in the marketplace will use recent auction prices to price their items and things may end up costing more and more. I've seen this in other hobbies that I have. It's a major bummer...

I agree with this this too. I use to bid on eBay stuff all of the time. Now I skip all of the drama and just click "Buy it now". If I don't like the price I keep looking.

 

[revhtree]

No raffles for sure.

 

[Opus]

Agreed, ive seen the mini raffles too and it's just disgusting. if you calculate how much the coral would cost by # of tickets x raffle price, the corals are almost always overpriced by a lot.

Very true. And most of the raffles here seem to sell out in a hour or 2. What I find very interesting, at least here, it is the same group of people buying into every raffle. I guess they are all just addicted to it.

 

[afrokobe]

Very true. And most of the raffles here seem to sell out in a hour or 2. What I find very interesting, at least here, it is the same group of people buying into every raffle. I guess they are all just addicted to it.

I see that you are in north texas, we are probably in the same groups lol. Raffles are gambling and these guys are just addicted to gambling. same thing happened with loot boxes in video games.

 

[Dolphins18]

I wish people would utilize feedback more.

THIS! I have had a few where people had trouble leaving feedback in the new system.

 

[revhtree]

THIS! I have had a few where people had trouble leaving feedback in the new system.

We’re going to build this out as well!

Forum How To - Classified Feedback Rating System: What would you add?

You may may or may not have seen that we are slowly introducing a new classified system and other options that come along with that. One option is a buyer and seller feedback rating system here. I'm posting this thread today because we want to build out the features of the rating system. Make...

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[revhtree]

We’re going to build this out as well!

Forum How To - Classified Feedback Rating System: What would you add?

You may may or may not have seen that we are slowly introducing a new classified system and other options that come along with that. One option is a buyer and seller feedback rating system here. I'm posting this thread today because we want to build out the features of the rating system. Make...

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