Urbid: What's happening?

I haven't been to the urbid auction site for quite a while. Stopped by today
and the site looks "abandoned". Only 5 or 6 items listed and all at high
starting prices. It didn't appear that there was much bidding going on.

Anyone have the scoop?

Here's the url"

http://www.urbid-auction-site.com/cg...ion/auction.pl



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Art





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"Art O'Connell" wrote in message
hlink.net...
I haven't been to the urbid auction site for quite a while. Stopped by
today
and the site looks "abandoned". Only 5 or 6 items listed and all at high
starting prices. It didn't appear that there was much bidding going on.

Anyone have the scoop?

Here's the url"

http://www.urbid-auction-site.com/cg...ion/auction.pl



--
God Bless!
Art

The last I heard from Andy, he was going on a trip and said he would be
doing listings, invoicing, and shipping while on the road. His auctions
pretty much drove the site, and he has not listed anything for weeks and
weeks. I hope he is all right.

It may be he has wearied of trying to build the site. It is a difficult
task to start a successful auction site, since you can't get sellers without
good traffic,and you can't get good traffic without a lot of listings,
listings with attractive low starting bids. Bill

If you think that is bad, try this:

www.bidmonkey.com

I liked the site when I first saw it, but nobody bids on anything (though
people do visit, unless the counters lie). I bought one nice large cent
there, and have some bids in on some foreign currency.

One problem is that most of the listings aren't for serious collectors.

Too bad, I would sure like to see more competition out there. I might list
a few items just to encourage them a bit.

--Keith

It may be he has wearied of trying to build the site. It is a difficult
task to start a successful auction site, since you can't get sellers without
good traffic,and you can't get good traffic without a lot of listings,
listings with attractive low starting bids. Bill


Another "wannbe" auction site falls to
the 900 pound Ebay gorilla.

I don't know why people even attempt
it unless to prove a point of some kind to
themselves.

Maybe he got tired of pouring good money into a losing venture and gave up.

"Bill Krummel" wrote in message ...
"Art O'Connell" wrote in message
hlink.net...
I haven't been to the urbid auction site for quite a while. Stopped by
today
and the site looks "abandoned". Only 5 or 6 items listed and all at high
starting prices. It didn't appear that there was much bidding going on.

Anyone have the scoop?

Here's the url"

http://www.urbid-auction-site.com/cg...ion/auction.pl



--
God Bless!
Art

The last I heard from Andy, he was going on a trip and said he would be
doing listings, invoicing, and shipping while on the road. His auctions
pretty much drove the site, and he has not listed anything for weeks and
weeks. I hope he is all right.

It may be he has wearied of trying to build the site. It is a difficult
task to start a successful auction site, since you can't get sellers without
good traffic,and you can't get good traffic without a lot of listings,
listings with attractive low starting bids. Bill

"Keith Fletcher" wrote in message
...
If you think that is bad, try this:

www.bidmonkey.com

I liked the site when I first saw it, but nobody bids on anything (though
people do visit, unless the counters lie). I bought one nice large cent
there, and have some bids in on some foreign currency.

One problem is that most of the listings aren't for serious collectors.

Too bad, I would sure like to see more competition out there. I might
list
a few items just to encourage them a bit.

--Keith

Well, after this post, I went to bidmonkey.com, found some auctions to bid
on and bid. One auction had a BIN, which I took advantage of. So, with
one seller, I had one win and was high bidder in one other auction. I
received my notices from bidmonkey, and I emailed the seller. This was on
the 22nd and I have not had a reply from the seller. Further, I have not
been able to access the bidmonkey site, or the auction page I won, or the
auction page I was high bid on, for the last three days.

In the meantime, Andy is back and UrBid has some new listings, worthy of a
look, imo. Bill

"Bill Krummel" wrote in message
...

"Keith Fletcher" wrote in message
...
If you think that is bad, try this:

www.bidmonkey.com

I liked the site when I first saw it, but nobody bids on anything
(though
people do visit, unless the counters lie). I bought one nice large cent
there, and have some bids in on some foreign currency.

One problem is that most of the listings aren't for serious collectors.

Too bad, I would sure like to see more competition out there. I might
list
a few items just to encourage them a bit.

--Keith

Well, after this post, I went to bidmonkey.com, found some auctions to bid
on and bid. One auction had a BIN, which I took advantage of. So, with
one seller, I had one win and was high bidder in one other auction. I
received my notices from bidmonkey, and I emailed the seller. This was on
the 22nd and I have not had a reply from the seller. Further, I have not
been able to access the bidmonkey site, or the auction page I won, or the
auction page I was high bid on, for the last three days.




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