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I got tired of eBay and decided to start my own auction website

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  by: raysopal
  SaleHoo Junior Member
  18 posts
  

  I got tired of eBay and decided to start my own auction website

  Posted 29 Dec 09 9:00 am.

  Hello to all fellow SaleHoo members like a lot of you i was getting sick of eBay fees i decided to get my own auction website a few months ago and have been selling on it (dropshipping) and starting to get buyers and sellers on it so stuff eBay i am going to spend the money to promote my website link hidden if any members are interested this website is free of any charges no listing or end of auction fees totally free plus you can advertise on it if you own a website with a banner ( ROTATING ) or in the classified ad section these are also free so all the best for the new year regards raysopal
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  by: fudjj
  SaleHoo Staff
  2969 posts
  

  Re: I got tired of eBay and decided to start my own auction website

  Posted 29 Dec 09 9:14 am.

  Good luck with it raysopal, hope you get some members supporting you with your free offer, and see if you can get some traction in the marketplace.

  Marc Ransom
  
  Community Manager
  SaleHoo.com
  
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  by: raysopal
  SaleHoo Junior Member
  18 posts
  

  Re: I got tired of eBay and decided to start my own auction website

  Posted 29 Dec 09 9:24 am.

  Hello fudjj thank you salehoo has been helpfull to me and i am going to continue using it raysopal
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  by: haydee
  SaleHoo Master Member
  361 posts
  

  Re: I got tired of eBay and decided to start my own auction website

  Posted 21 Jan 10 6:59 am.

  Hi Raysopal,
  
  It's good to hear about your own auction site and that you find SaleHoo of great help to your business! :)
  
  Now, everyone knows how much traffic eBay generates so what you can do is get the word out about your own auction site, optimize it for the search engines, advertise. There are a lot of great ways to do this.
  
  1. You can sign up for online selling/wholesale forums like link hidden and other related sites and introduce your auction site. There are a lot of sellers out there who are constantly on the look out for eBay alternatives. Given that you are offering yours with no fees, then, it wouldn't be that hard to stir interest.
  
  2. You can try social networking/social bookmarking sites.
  
  3. You can try link hidden. It is a FREE SEO optimization tool.
  
  4. You can set up a blog, an email newsletter or an affiliate program.
  
  Good luck and I wish you all the best!
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  by: raysopal
  SaleHoo Junior Member
  18 posts
  

  Re: I got tired of eBay and decided to start my own auction website

  Posted 21 Jan 10 11:52 am.

  Hi haydee thank you for the imput i will certinly check them out the website is going ok at the moment as i have been advertising the hell out of it and i am getting people siging up and starting to sell on the website and at the moment i am getting about 6000 hits a day sometimes more but as you said need to do a lot more to realy get it of the ground hopefully will get their in the near future regards ray
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  by: richellemonfort
  SaleHoo Staff
  3746 posts
  

  Re: I got tired of eBay and decided to start my own auction website

  Posted 21 Jan 10 11:39 pm.

  Congratulations on your auction site! We wish you all the best... :)

  Richelle
  
  Customer Support
  SaleHoo Group Limited
  Sell more with your own professionally designed and search optimized e-commerce website. Check out SaleHoo Stores now!
  
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  by: raysopal
  SaleHoo Junior Member
  18 posts
  

  Re: I got tired of eBay and decided to start my own auction website

  Posted 23 Jan 10 10:24 am.

  Hi richelle_salehoo thank you only time will tell regards ray
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  by: raysopal
  SaleHoo Junior Member
  18 posts
  

  Re: I got tired of eBay and decided to start my own auction website

  Posted 28 Jan 10 10:22 am.

  Hi haydee i checked out the websites you said and they seem to be ok and i see you have joined up on link hidden hope it goes well for you as well it does have a lot of interesting facts on the website and i also used link hidden as well and now my website hits have gone up to 60000 to 70000 hits a day and climbing in the last week thank you for your help and will continue to use them regards ray
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  by: happydealsgalore
  New SaleHoo Member
  1 posts
  

  Re: I got tired of eBay and decided to start my own auction website

  Posted 29 Jan 10 9:41 pm.

  Ray - I hope your auction site works well for you! I am new around here and would like to find out a few things about your site. Tell me is it search engine optimized? Do you know how your visitors get to you - search engine or other advertising? Have you made some sales yet?
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  by: raysopal
  SaleHoo Junior Member
  18 posts
  

  Re: I got tired of eBay and decided to start my own auction website

  Posted 30 Jan 10 4:37 am.

  hi happydealsgalore yes it is starting to go well and i have made a few sales already and the website is search engined optimized i have been doing a lot of my own advertising as well with other advertising networks and here is a copy of my website hits this month Jan 2010---697782 and is getting better by the day hope this answers your question regards ray
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  by: PicNSave
  SaleHoo Junior Member
  33 posts
  

  Re: I got tired of eBay and decided to start my own auction website

  Posted 22 Mar 10 1:57 am.

  Hi Raysopal,
  
  I am also looking to create my own website. Can you please tell me which website builder you have used to create it. I tried to sign up with ecrater.com but could not do so as I dont have a company name yet.
  
  Thanks for any advice.
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  by: vichardy
  SaleHoo Junior Member
  22 posts
  

  Re: I got tired of eBay and decided to start my own auction website

  Posted 22 Mar 10 4:50 am.

  One quick question...
  
  You say 50-60K visits a day?
  I have to ask them.
  
  Total Pages Viewed:
  ( 58958 )
  
  Even adding in your 5-6K visits a day.. Perhaps drop a digit off the end of your numbers?
  Not saying you are not getting the traffic, but at the numbers you apparently get... it just doesn't match up with what I see.
  And at 50-60K/day I would think you'd have a lot more than 300 members registered.
  
  Just saying.
  But kudo's to you!
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  by: raysopal
  SaleHoo Junior Member
  18 posts
  

  Re: I got tired of eBay and decided to start my own auction website

  Posted 23 Mar 10 11:26 am.

  hi vichardy the stats i get for my website come from my awstats in the cpanel for my website it shows that i have had 910876 website visitors from 1st jan till the 22nd march 2010 at least i am getting people to sign up on the website and i have also had a few sales regards ray
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  by: raysopal
  SaleHoo Junior Member
  18 posts
  

  Re: I got tired of eBay and decided to start my own auction website

  Posted 23 Mar 10 11:33 am.

  hi picNsave i have my own website builder which you can get for yourself at link hidden go to their website and check it out and see how you go as far as websites go i have a heap of ready made website scipts that i get uploaded when i want one what type of website are you after as i my have one you could use because once you have uploaded it you can modify it to your own design regards ray