GoAntiques part of Price Miner and Oodle?? information?

**#31**

Ginny, I agree with you and will try GoAntiques also. I hope their auctions which are timed and live will work out. The salesman said they would start them next month, and GoAntiques has been around a long time and have a lot of customers.So far as you said it is a better deal than eBay, you have unlimited listing, and can be cheaper in the long run than an eBay store. When I spoke to them the guy was very polite and helpful.Was I correct when he said he if you sell something on auction it is only 5% commission? What type of items do you sell? I sell old antique and collectible dolls, old G.I. Joes, old marbles, and other old toys.
Lets hope this works out or at least it is a big site with a lot of sales. I will to stay on unless they stockholders of ebay at their boardroom meeting fire Donahue, and get it back the way it was, but I really doubt that would happen. By then another big auction would be already replacing ebay and their stock might become worthless. I think for now GoAntiques sounds good and worth a try. Even though they are not a freebie site, they have a good reputation, a good list of returning customers and no feedback, and great customer service. Sometimes it takes money to make money, so the fee isn't that big compared to eBay, and we can accept checks, MO, we are in control, not them. The salesman said they are also trying to get away from PayPal and are looking into Google checkout.

**#32**

Yes, 5% commission on auction sales. 10% on straight sales. That is my understanding.

We deal in quite a number of antiques and collectibles categories including antique toys, mechanical banks, vintage photography, sports memorabilia, advertising cards. Some are expensive. Some inexpensive. We've been buying and selling antiques for a long time.

Ebay's decision not to allow sellers to offer checks and money orders as payment is the final straw for us. The overall corporate mentality that has crept into their treatment of sellers as though we are their employees has to stop. We didn't sign up to work for ebay. We are self employed. Not ebay employed. I think they are confused at ebay. They think we work for them.

**#33**

I hadn't been posting here on PSU for a long time. I had forgotten about my signature. I like it! Smile

**#34**

I didn't mean to imply that what they charge is unfair but I don't sell antiques nor real high end products. Although I used to get alot more than I have been so maybe it would be worthwhile. I don't really know. I just kind of wish they didn't have the $39.00 per month fee. Not because I am opposed to paying a fee as I think without revenue a site can't grow, it just might be little much for what I have. I don't sell junk, but not anything where I make hundreds of dollars profit. I will probably check it out but if it doesn't work for me I hope it works for you.

**#35**

"I didn't mean to imply that what they charge is unfair but I don't sell antiques nor real high end products. Although I used to get alot more than I have been so maybe it would be worthwhile. I don't really know."

It is true that for sellers who only sell occasionally and have listings where there is only a small profit that paying $39 per month would be too much. If it isn't profitable, then there is no sense in doing it. By having that sort of fee they would be attracting sellers who have large numbers of listings rather than the smaller sellers.

It might mean that there will be an opening for Goantiques sellers who would sell on consignment. (Although I can't remember the terms of service so don't know if that is allowed or not.) But that is not any help to sellers who want to sell the occasional inexpensive item on their own.

There is an opening out there for a company who can offer a service to smaller sellers. I have seen some other sites but haven't had the time to try them. There is ecrater for example. I don't know if they are a suitable choice but I liked the look of their home page. I believe that they are free.

**#36**

Hi Ginny,
It isn't necessarily that I would be an occasional seller although with feebay I sell hardly anything at all anymore. I used to have three different sellers ID's depending on what I sold. As an example, beer items. I used to make a ton of money with that but now it's lucky if anything is sold. I started selling t-shirts but with all the new changes closed my store in Feb. I am going to Atomic Mall with those. Other than that, any type of collectable that I thought would sell. Again, I will have to see what types of items sell on Goantiques. It might work, it might not. I just know that I won't stay at feebay. Period. As far as ecrater, I have heard it is a nice place but I honestly don't see how a site can grow without charging any fees. I think most people don't mind paying if it is fair and consistent.

o.c.d.collectibles at GoAntiques · **#37**

It's a good idea to actually take a good look at the search engine on GoAntiques and see the different "channels" they use for selling. There is "estate" which is like used stuff but newish, collectible, and nice, you know like designer handbags, jewelry that's not old but collectible, such as brighton, or other contemporary costume jewelry, and other stuff people find useful but too expensive to buy new, so this would be good for some of the folks who sell newish books, etc..

Then there is the "collectibles" category, so stuff like the vintage-y sewing patterns, or doll house furniture, or the "how to" booklets on knitting, the vintage needlecraft kits, (you know the felt stocking kits that do so well on ebay?) would be a good choice in that category..the vintage also has vintage clothing, fabric, sewing items, and fun stuff such as model kits..anyway...I don't think there is any area that they don't sell as far as categories, you just have to look and see by searching the entire site to see what other sellers are doing there.

The one thing I found disturbing is that there is no forum to share with the other sellers, so I can't ask questions that would ordinarily make me feel stupis asking the support staff there!LOL! I know I shouldn't feel embarrassed asking, but I am!LOL! I still don't know how to execute a listing there, with photos..

It took me forever to figure it out on ebay too, so I will figure it out eventually! It still comes out cheaper than ebay, because you can LEAVE a ton of stuff there listed and not have to remove it or relist, so the sales could be coming in regularly every month without you having to work on making new listings all the time.

Someone I spoke to said they get much higher prices for their listings there, than they got on ebay, so it evens out, as far as fees go. I guess I wil have to see.

My feeling is this...I would rather pay a few bucks extra and feel safe selling and not having to worry so much about feedback and placement of my listings.

It wil be nice to be trated nicely for a change, and in a place where ebay's parasitic ad salesmen won't be allowed to be a major presence, such as channel advisor and some of the other con men on ebay. None of them on GoAntiques!!! And no advertising all over my listings either!!

**#38**

I don't think it would hard to learn how to upload pictures on GoAntiques. Way back when I sold on eBay and Tias.com which is another online antqiue mall like Go Ant. It was easy to use and their their technical help was great. All you did was use a broweser they had that uploaded the pictures from your computor and was very easy. I am sure GoAntiques probably had the same sort of set up. Plus I am sure the technical help is good, when I called them to talk in person about their auctions and said that is the only drawback, I don't want to sell on ebay anymore, and that is when the man said they sold the longest live auctions on eBay for 6 years and now they were being effected as all of us our, and he said with the money they save from paying eBay they are able to start their own live and timed auctions next month. He was very nice, and polite and easy to talk to and spoke english. I am going to wait and see how their auctions look and probably list on there next month. If you want to know what others think of it, I would look up the same kind of stuff you sell and email some of the dealers on there and ask their opinion of what they think of Go Ant. With more and more people leaving eBay their business is probably going up all the time. The man I spoke to said he gets calls everyday from people leaving eBay and joining GoAntiquesJust the fact they have been around for years and advertise everyhwere shows they must sell alot of stuff to stay in business. What kind of stuff do you sell? I will see next month how the auctions go, and with Christmas coming up it is the right time to start selling now. I was shocked the other day I went in Kmart our only store in the small town of 6500 people that live up the Sierria Neveda Mtns that I live in, and saw it is not even Halloween yet and they already had all the artificial Christmas trees up and setting up all the orrnament dept. this early! It seems like every year they push Christmas stuff up here earlier every year, so its not to late to start selling stuff on auctions for Christmas.
Good luck with your store!

**#39**

An Open Letter to GoAntiques Dealers from WorthPoint Founder and CEO Will Seippel

As most of you are aware, WorthPoint is acquiring GoAntiques. While the acquisition will not be completed until early October, Jim, Kathy and I wanted to share our vision for what we believe will be a very bright future for all of us. We would like to begin an ongoing dialogue with you and the GoAntiques community and thank you for your continued support. We also want to help ensure a seamless transition by answering the questions that you may have been asking.

Can you tell me a little more about WorthPoint? How long have you existed?
WorthPoint was founded last year by a management team with a deep understanding of running companies and a knowledge of and appreciation for the art, antiques and collectibles market. We provide a wide range of auction results on our Web site. We also have the first and only online community in the art, antiques and collectibles world/arena with more than 10,000 daily users. Since going live in November, WorthPoint already has built a community of 70,000 members devoted to valuing, selling and buying art, antiques, and collectibles.

Who is Will Seippel?
Prior to founding WorthPoint, I led data-driven, billion-dollar companies that have gone through rapid growth and transformed industries. With more than 25 years of financial and operational experience, I understand the importance of serving customers. I am a lifelong collector, have been an antiques dealer for 35 years and a member of the New Hampshire Antiques Dealers Association and am an eBay power seller.

What is Will’s vision for WorthPoint?
I believe that there is a better way to help people make money from their passion for arts, antiques and collectibles, and that it is important to bring the excitement of collecting to a wider and younger group of people. WorthPoint was founded to reinvigorate our industry. I believe WorthPoint will give buyers and sellers alternatives to eBay by using modern Web tools and by making relevant information available for little or no cost.

Jim, Kathy and I share this vision. There would have been no acquisition if we didn’t. When we met this past June, we quickly discovered that our businesses were complementary and that our user bases could take advantage of our combined resources.

How will users benefit from combining GoAntiques and WorthPoint?
WorthPoint will nearly double the number of visitors coming to the site on a daily basis. By combining GoAntiques and WorthPoint, you will become connected to a larger market with a much broader set of tools than currently exist and even more sophisticated tools that we plan to implement in the next 90 days.

Immediately, you will benefit from:

* A diverse community supporting different areas of collecting
* Free research data
* Links to Facebook and other social networks

In addition, within the next 90 days, we plan to begin:

* Integrating the two sites so that a WorthPoint member interested in an item can link to a GoAntiques seller.
* Implementing a taxonomy that will make finding, pricing, researching and selling antiques much easier. We believe this classification system will become the standard for collectibles.
* Providing tools and certification classes in your respective areas of expertise to help you more effectively sell antiques online.
* Including sales from GoAntiques dealers in the WorthPoint database, which will help bring more customers to your inventory.
* Extending WorthPoint’s Internet marketing reach to GoAntiques—including various types of content distribution such as online video, broadcasting, industry-related articles and category-specific blogging.

It is worth noting that our current tools have helped increase WorthPoint’s page views by five percent a week, and we expect you to benefit from the increased number of visitors to the GoAntiques site.

When are we going to have auctions back on GoAntiques?
WorthPoint and GoAntiques believe there will be a tremendous need to bring a new Internet-auction environment for antiques and collectibles when eBay exits live auctions at the end of this year.

Many think, and we agree, that, for all practical purposes, eBay abandoned this market months ago when changes were made to its format, including its feedback and arbitration processes. We think the current process is broken, and it is not in your best interest to continue to be a part of this “abandoned” market. Our planned solution is exciting and will more directly target your needs and the needs of buyers. The financial and technical capabilities of WorthPoint make this solution much more viable for you because we only focus on antiques and collectibles.

We expect to have auctions back on GoAntiques within the next 90 days. We are as eager as you are to have auctions on the site, but we did not think it was in your best interest or ours to continue offering the eBay product. Solutions being vetted will bring shoppers from some of the Web’s top 100 sites. We are committed to making sure we make the right immediate and long-term decisions for you, our member dealers and our users.

Will we still see the GoAntiques brand and Jim and Kathy?
Yes. The GoAntiques brand and Web site will continue to be the leading online marketplace in our business. Kathy will continue to actively communicate with the community and design new social products for the combined communities. Jim will manage the technical operations for the combined companies in Ohio.

How will you ensure a seamless transition?
The Web continues to evolve very quickly. Traditional providers in our space, including eBay, have not kept pace. We plan to take advantage of today’s leading technologies and anticipate tomorrow’s. The WorthPoint and GoAntiques management team is committed to increasing our reach and participation in the worldwide collecting community. We will partner with the most current players in the industry, and GoAntiques’ user base will directly benefit. Most importantly, we will always remember that our mission includes helping dealers like you make money and spreading our passion for art, antiques and collectibles.

Where can I send my questions?
Please send questions to me at Will@goantiques.com. I will make sure that we address your questions in my future updates. Of course, don’t hesitate to reach out to us with pressing questions that need immediate attention.

Sincerely,

Will Seippel
CEO
WorthPoint Corporation

Please direct all responses to will@goantiques.com

o.c.d.collectibles at GoAntiques · **#40**

Ok, NOW things are starting to roll out! You guys need to find Autionwally's last radio show with Will Siepple of Worthpoint and listen to the whole thing, and maybe that will shed a little light on the rollouts that have just begun. All I can say, is that there was very little to look at in June, and now the communities are growing like crazy! I just joined a few, and then started a few of my own interests. There is now a thread started for GoAntiques sellers, and soon the 2 will be linking the listings, plus the free classifieds have started to grow there too. Take a look, that's all I can say!

Here is the letter I just got today. I first posted it i my my favorite group forum yardsalequeen, then I emailed a copy to auctionbytes so you might see mention of it there too! But here it is, in advance!

**#41**

You can list the lower priced as well as higher priced stuff free on the worthpoint classifieds section. You can also join the communities there. It's all free.

**#42**

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/georgia-high-tech-community-recognizes/story.aspx?guid=%7BF9E8381D%2D689F%2D4DBC%2DA6DA%2DDF5002DEC381%7D

Try looking up the guy's name in goog..he is quietly moving in on the forefront...

Georgia High Tech Community Recognizes WorthPoint

Last update: 4:13 p.m. EDT Sept. 25, 2008
ATLANTA, Sept 25, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- WorthPoint, an Internet-based data and media company that offers a vast database of sales records on art, antiques and collectibles, has been named one of 20 companies to present at the inaugural conference of Venture Atlanta 2008 ( http://www.ventureatlanta.org ) this October 15-16. The conference is the premier investor showcase for emerging technology companies in Georgia.
It is the second honor is as many weeks for WorthPoint. Last Thursday, WorthPoint CEO Will Seippel was one of five finalists in the "Technology Entrepreneur" category of the AeA Southeast Council's "2008 Spirit of Endeavor Awards."
The AeA is the nation's largest technology trade association representing all segments of the high-tech industry. The awards recognize outstanding individuals and companies in the region's high-tech community.
"WorthPoint is proud to be a part of Georgia's high tech business community," said Seippel. "Joining the Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC) continues to pay dividends as we offer new services and grow our membership."
About WorthPoint Corporation
WorthPoint Corporation ( http://www.worthpoint.com ) is an Internet-based data and media company that offers a vast database of sales records on art, antiques and collectibles. Founded in 2007, WorthPoint has quickly become the world's largest social network for researching the worth of antiques and collectibles. WorthPoint helps collectors understand the worth of their items, and provides expert advice from its team of Worthologists on how to preserve or sell antiques and collectibles. WorthPoint recently announced plans to acquire Dublin, Ohio-based GoAntiques, the oldest antiques-and-collectibles site on the Web.
SOURCE WorthPoint Corporation

o.c.d.collectibles at GoAntiques · **#43**

I tried googling his name and was quite impressed with his credentials. I think there is some merit to this company that we will all be seeing shortly.

**#44**

Thanks for keeping us "in the know" OCD girl!

**#45**

Given the previous track record of goantiques on ebay, and its seeming inability to ensure accurate descriptions and to ensure dealers actually follow through on sales, worthpoint has long road ahead of them.

If I saw a GO action on ebay I just left because the chance of a hassles were very high. Just check their feedback.

CS