Originally Posted by
damian_steele
OK, look at it this way:
Cost of advertising in one country, properly covering cheap TV, radio and newspaper adverts - conservative guess: £100,000 for one week.
eBid members would not accept advertising in just one country, so multiply that figure by ten to cover the major territories. Now we're at one million pounds for one week.
No advertising campaign is effective if it only runs for one week. So let's be realistic and run for ten weeks spread out over a three or four month period. Now our costs are up to ten million pounds.
eBid has an active membership of ..... well, we don't know for sure, but let's be generous and guess at 100,000. So if everyone puts in £1 - £5 each we would be short by £95 - £99 per person. And that assumes that absolutely every active member pays in.
This also assumes that the cheap advertising option is available in each area and that eBid are able to locate and negotiate suitable deals to create adverts in the local language for each location.
Realistically, this isn't going to happen.
eBid is not Feebay. eBid do not have the money, time or resources to advertise in the manner that people are demanding.