It will be cheaper than Ebay and will only be concerned with sailing and boating stuff . . . but will people ever come over to it in sufficient numbers to provide a viable marketplace?
It's already cost a fair percentage in terms of the Webcraft development budget, and next month's miniscule ad in YM adds another £100+ to the bill.
All thoughts and advice welome, although I reserve the right to ignore it completely if I disagree . . .
I hope to be proved wrong but in order for an auction to work there must be enough interested buyers and sellers, I suspect you will remain below that critical mass without a MAJOR awareness campaign.
well perhaps not a pop up but a small panel on ybw home page. when you look at the number of registered users and anons and the frequency of references to e bay on that site you would have the ideal target audience i think. advertise on the website rather than an individual magazine.
You're absolutely right about this being an excellent group to target though I usually go direct to the individual forum pages and only rarely visit YBW home.
where web surfing ( and no doubt computers in general ) is concerned you are obviously mr skippy to my mr plod. perhaps i should stick to strategy and leave the tactics to the experts
i`m not even going to ask how you get directly to the forum - i doubt if i would understand the explanation.
on the YBW forums certainly can't go wrong as part of a campaign as long as they don't all originate from the one poster. MC did his bit recently and I'll slip in another when I put my first items up on SailRoom.
PS - just add the forums to your favourites list individually LBB. No?
Silkie-
yes - that`s what i was referring to.
i see we may be in competition for the anemo. i was a bit mystified by the bidding thing as well. i tried to bid £10 but was told i had to bid min £11.50.
be interesting to see what Nick has to say.
