Originally Posted by
Juliebabe25
Continuing on my series of suggestions for ebid to increase sales and members etc.
Number 7 - Show Auction Bids.
Ebid is one of the few alternate "auction / online market place sites" that offers auctions as well as buy now.
The top 3 alt sites only do Buy Now, and so does number 5. (assuming my ranking are correct)
Many of us know that ebid did show the auction bids for a while (before my time) but withdrew the feature as they did not think that it was helping. So the code is there.
But most of us would agree that seeing auction bids is an integral part of an auction.
Imagine going to a real life auction and everyone standing in the room and then the auctioneer says the Ming Vase has been sold.
It would add some life to the site.
My suggestion is to give it trial for say 6 months.
And for ebid to tell us the auction sales before the trial starts and at the end of the six months.
I can't see how it would put anyone off listing an auction on ebid, as there is no activity shown now.
(I know this has been suggested many times, but it belongs in my series) (And I know I will get one supporter)