Well, not sure where everyone is heading and I am new here to the boards but wanted to let you know my experience.

1st listing day at onlineauction.com and I posted 8 listings. I got a bid the very first day there.
Needless to say I was VERY happy.

I'm a realist. I realize that things will be up and down at a smaller sites until it grows. BUT for us we are willing to wait and be patient and to grow with onlineauction. Whats the alternative? ASTRONOMICAL fees? A feedback system that works against the sellers and the buyers? More fees? Customer service that is useless? Oh and did I mention more fees? So yes...we are willing to be patient.

Community there is very helpful and kind. The chat boards are fun. All I can say is that everything I've seen for community and help has been positive.

Just using their general "sell" with no bells and whistles was easy - although you can not copy and paste in the payment section. But I hear they are making an upgrade there and that might? improve and/or change.

Well just wanted to post our experience and if anyone is looking for a new home I can honestly say onlineauction would be a good place to go.

wesellitall

Hey all - the top posts here look a little "gloomy and doomie" - Although I have not read them all.

Wanted to let you know that the FIRST DAY that I listed at onlineauction I got a BID!!!

I'm a refugee from feebay - someone pointed me in that direction and we are LOVING IT!

I have posted on the boards there some great ideas for promoting onlineauction and for your own listings - if bids or even people looking at your auctions is an issue for you check them out - they have worked for me in the past.

We are VERY happy with the choice we made - going to onlineauction, and are up to 16 listings and will be listing more as the days go on.

Community is friendly there, helpful, the $8.00 a month we pay (until we become a founding member) is NOTHING compared to what we would pay at feebay in a month and even becoming a founding member for a FULL YEARS worth of features and a store is what I would have paid feebay in ONE MONTH.

I'm looking forward to being with onlineauction for a long time to come. It's a GREAT place!

Congrats. I have a series of shipping labels if you want them.

The front page remains a laborious load. The 14 Million auctions streaming greeting is a fake. I detest false advertising.

I was a founding member. Mywings are for sale dirt cheap.

My name (it is not this one) is not for sale so the prior statement is a joke. Ola may come out of all of this OK. The past 3 months during which I had a clear view=Nope. They had their next moment and muffed it. Apparently that is their wont.

Promises are wonderful. Unless you're paying.

I wish you well and if OLA works for you then understand you are working for them. Lots of promises and almost none of them kept. It's always ''Tomorrow, Scarlett'': e.g., to implement a fast page load: just the next headache.

Nice peeeples who answer the phone. Whom you pay. And then they hang up the receiver and do no more.

Now what does that set-up /lack of performance remind you of?

GL in your endeavours. I'm long since out.

M

Congratulations. I've been a founding member since February and have sold a total of 8 items.

I am not one to go to the chat rooms, play games or socialize since selling online is my job and not a social time. The only sales I made was during the rummage sale and 1 the next week (they were all to OLA sellers). I have sent emails and flyers to my buyers at the other sites but none of them like the looks or search of OLA.

Since I cannot get a refund for being a founding member, I will list the stuff that doesn't sell on my two other venues but other than that I will not waste my time.

OLA could have been so good if they had only kept their promises. I was promised in February that the completed search would be done in a couple of months and that the upgrades would be completed in May. Well, it is now July and nothing.

Confused & Missprints, ss to hear you have had a not so good experience over there. I really truly believe that what you sell depends on how well you will sell. Not every site works for everyone. I think that different items sell better then others at certain venues right now. Until someone or something gets as big or close to eBay it will remain that way.

I've also sold at Overstock - loved that site and actually had quite a few sales over there. Unfortunately overstock is more concerned with "selling" their own site and wares, they dont really care about the auction section. All their commercials rotate around their own items and store/site and not even the mear hint that they have auctions there.

We actually let things go for a while...were in the middle of moving and a transition and did not sell at all. Went back to eBay but due to all the changes, fees, etc decided to leave there again. I would rather work with an up and coming site then deal with someone who charges us an arm and a leg for nothing. No customer service, a site that works against the seller and the buyers, etc. It just is not worth it for us.

We'd rather wait out the storm and build elsewhere. All those people over there at onlineauction with 500, 600+ ratings are obviously selling something. So it IS possible to sell over there.

Again, just my 2 cents and like I said, not every venue will work for everyone. But I know I'm happy with the results so far - First day and a bid - plus multiple hits on my other items on a holiday weekend - works for me!!

Confused wrote (View Post): › OLA could have been so good if they had only kept their promises. I was promised in February that the completed search would be done in a couple of months and that the upgrades would be completed in May. Well, it is now July and nothing.

Unfortunately, your experience is by far the norm with OLA.

Sorry to hear you had to learn the OLA lesson the hard way --
but you've got plenty of company.

Hello congrats on first day bid, hope it keeps up, but my 2 cents say we are mostly wasting time with all the sites (now that Ebay is an insane asylum), as most of the others are poor copies.
eCrater seems fine for hobbyists, so does blujay. Alibris is a waste of time so far, second time I've tried, iOffer three tries nobody pays you. My ebay sales went from Silver power seller back to 5 years ago when I first started. The change was immediate, so I am doing what we are all going to have to do eventually. Open your own store/site, get a good software program (no recommendations on that one, I use OScommerce, but need a programmer part time as it is not user friendly unless you are a techie and then promote. Pretend this is your Brick and Mortar store in town and you are the brand new guy....guerilla marketing on the net is as easy/hard as it was on the ground, but advertising/marketing is the only cure for what ails us. None of the other sites short of Amazon or Ebay has much of an advertising program. Since selling outside of a chain store is an indie thing, I think the internet is about due to become an indie revolution, as it started out. Good luck...Rather Russ at www.dedicatedfool.com

So happy to say that I am pulling all my listings from OLA - they have become worse than ebay. I went to the chat room to see the latest news since yesterday there has been nothing but problems on listing, auctions disappearing, etc. You now have to sign in to view certain rooms since people were complaining about the site. I can understand having to sign in to post but just to view them is ridiculous.

The other day, there was a seller who made a major issue with no sales, advertising, etc. I could not believe how obnoxious the cheerleaders were and how rude they were to the poster. It became quite nasty. One supporter of the poster was actually blocked from bidding on items from several sellers.

But the final straw was that tonight I also wanted to read the latest replies to the post but it was gone. The cheerleaders were patting each other on the back for having the post removed. It is like the poster never existed.

If you don't live and breath OLA you are an outcast. I learned my lesson the hard way since I have lost money due to being a founding member and having spent money on advertising but yes at least I did learn.

Confused wrote (View Post): › So happy to say that I am pulling all my listings from OLA - they have become worse than ebay.

Yup, their 'big happy family' act is beyond offensive.....
especially when they try to tout how much better they are
than eBay

Confused wrote (View Post): › If you don't live and breath OLA you are an outcast.

Their herd mentality is pretty oppressive. Some very
potent Kool-Aid they dole out around there.

Confused wrote (View Post): › I learned my lesson the hard way since I have lost money due to being a founding member and having spent money on advertising but yes at least I did learn.

Small consolation, but you're not the only one to learn
the OLA lesson the hard way.

Looks like others are learning that lesson too according to
the PSU site count:

OnlineAuction as of July 4, 2008 6:07am
298,787
-26649
-8.92%

Almost a 9% drop in individual listings on OLA in one day

GAELICTITCA wrote (View Post): › Confused wrote (View Post): › So happy to say that I am pulling all my listings from OLA - they have become worse than ebay. Yup, their 'big happy family' act is beyond offensive..... especially when they try to tout how much better they are than eBay Confused wrote (View Post): › If you don't live and breath OLA you are an outcast. Their herd mentality is pretty oppressive. Some very potent Kool-Aid they dole out around there. Confused wrote (View Post): › I learned my lesson the hard way since I have lost money due to being a founding member and having spent money on advertising but yes at least I did learn. Small consolation, but you're not the only one to learn the OLA lesson the hard way. Looks like others are learning that lesson too according to the PSU site count: OnlineAuction as of July 4, 2008 6:07am 298,787 -26649 -8.92% Almost a 9% drop in individual listings on OLA in one day

GAELICTITCA - We can see by your little banner at the bottom of your posts that you are one of eBays "cheerleaders" - What is your purpose of being over here besides "downing" OLA. eBay has sent another to "take down" the competition.......its MISERABLY OBVIOUS.

Dont you realize that those who are working with OLA could care less about your little posts and snide remarks. What you say is meaningless because its so blatently obvious as to why your here....

Why dont you move back over to the eBay boards and tout what a wonderful place eBay is? Dont you have anything better to do???

Can anyone say TROLL????

wesellitall wrote (View Post): › GAELICTITCA - We can see by your little banner at the bottom of your posts that you are one of eBays "cheerleaders"

Oh, really? I'm an eBay cheerleader, eh?

Spoken like a true PSU newbie.

wesellitall wrote (View Post): › What is your purpose of being over here besides "downing" OLA. eBay has sent another to "take down" the competition.......its MISERABLY OBVIOUS.

My 'purpose', as you put it, is to see to it
that others aren't sucked into the OLA smoke
and mirrors routine of endless promises of
'changes' that are always on the way. Plenty
of old timers here on PSU have had the OLA
experience first hand - we know the issues
that plague OLA.

And eBay doesn't need any help from me or
anyone else to 'take down the competition' --
OLA does a fine job of that themselves.

wesellitall wrote (View Post): › Dont you realize that those who are working with OLA could care less about your little posts and snide remarks.

Ah, but my comments aren't directed to
the OLA cheerleaders, of course. They're to
enable those who are weighing joining OLA
to hear unvarnished first hand accounts of
experiences with OLA.

wesellitall wrote (View Post): › Can anyone say TROLL????

Sure, it's spelled W-E-S-E-L-L-I-T-A-L-L

Calling people here trolls is like calling the kettle black. There is a post at OLA where people are proud to have been suspended from the boards at ebay because they bad mouthed them and encouraged people to go to OLA. The people here are trying to let people know what to expect but they are not going to the OLA site to list the problems.

I should know about trolls, I was one who was suckered into joining OLA and wasting my founding membership fees plus hundreds of dollars advertising the site from reading about OLA at ebay.

I always considered myself business smart but I let emotions rule and kept thinking OLA would get better. Started selling on two other sites two months ago and went back to ebay the middle of June. All three sites have more than doubled the sales that I had at OLA in five months.

I might be getting slow in my old age but I am not dumb. I will stick to where the money is which is not OLA.

LOL

Gael,

You are hilarious every once in awhile....