Tired of Ebay?

[trails]

This is an alternate to the much ______ site E-bay. A friend of mine steered me to this new auction site;

http://wensy.com/

BJ Neff

[jcuve]

Seems interesting...I'm gonna check it out, thanks BJ!

[Brad]

Looks like it may have some potential...I saved it under favorites.

[hasfam]

Over the years I have seen or have been directed to a number of free auction sites as an alternative to Ebay. Unfortunately, I don't think any have survived. No matter how many people hate ebay and desperately want a better venue, Its hard to beat the fact that ebay has an average of 6 million people on line, searching, buying, bidding everyday. I really hope this one works out and truly become a viable alternative venue.
I've bookmarked it and will probably try it out.
Thanks,
Rock

[corroded]

I have good friend that currently has 500+ coins listed on Wensys. He sells quite a few every week. He has completely quit ebay, closed his account. He was arcoins on ebay, don't know what he is on wensys.

Bill

[kloccwork419]

Sites like them are always nice but they always seem to get overran by fake TPGs like INB where all coins are MS70.
ANY selling site shouldnt be allowed to let members sell coins without a real coin expert behind the scenes. Stores around me are constantly getting raided by feds for selling bootleg CDs or fake clothing labels, they should be able to do more with coins.

[jpl6332]

Yes I am tired of EBAY and tired of paying them 200 a month for the privelege of doing all the work I do for them. It takes 30 minutes to photograph and do a writeup on each coin. I just might try this new site and see what happens.

[AgCollector]

Yes I am tired of EBAY and tired of paying them 200 a month for the privelege of doing all the work I do for them. It takes 30 minutes to photograph and do a writeup on each coin. I just might try this new site and see what happens.

I agree, I just worry about how many buyers are actually present on an alternate site. It's guaranteed you pay eBay/Paypal between 10-20% of sales, but if on an alternate site your final sale prices are 10-20% lower (or more) there's no incentive to switch.

[hasfam]

Yes I am tired of EBAY and tired of paying them 200 a month for the privelege of doing all the work I do for them. It takes 30 minutes to photograph and do a writeup on each coin. I just might try this new site and see what happens.

Everything is relative. Its like paying taxes. I wouldn't mind paying thousands of dollars in taxes if I'm making a million a year. If I'm paying high fees on ebay that means I'm making high sales. Also, I've had a brick and mortor store before and the expense is significantly higher than these fees. It all boils down to traffic which is what we are primarily paying for. I've had other web site stores and tried other auctions but the cost of trying to get traffic is a deterrent to any added profitablility. For 14 years I have tried every way imaginable to leave eBay but always come back. Traffic, traffic, traffic.
Rock

[coppercoins]

Ebay is a lot like the IRS in one way...although I don't like either, they are both necessary evils. I wouldn't bother wasting the time to list coins on other sites because they simply don't sell, and if they do, they don't sell for nearly what they do on eBay.

I wish them luck - competition is a good thing...but it's not easy to fight a bear with a toothpick.

[trails]

I like the analogy Chuck "fighting a bear with a toothpick".

BJ

[mustbebob]

Better be one hell of a toothpick!

[eaxtellcoin]

How about a shovel on the end of that toothpick.... ops that just pis-es him off..