Review auction site

dynabid · 10-05-2008, 12:04 PM

hi everyone

We would like some good honest reviews from people regarding our new auction site www.dynabid.org we know we will never compete with ebay but weare offering people a cheaper alternative all comments welcome hope to hear from you all

YoungNFocused08 · 10-05-2008, 12:32 PM

You may want to hyperlink so we can see. I'll be sure to review it for you.

dynabid · 10-05-2008, 01:33 PM

Url is DynaBid Online Auctions

stri8ed · 10-05-2008, 01:52 PM

ill be honest with you, its too cluttered, and the interface is not very smart.

i suggest you remove some content from the home page and try and simplify the interface a bit.

just out of curiosity how do you plan on marketing the site?

dynabid · 10-05-2008, 02:05 PM

hi

Thanks for the comments your the only person whos said its cluttered what we do intend to do is space out homepage a little so its there will be space in between things so its not all in one the site has been marketed already on gogle,yahoo,msn etc the site is also having a 2 page spread in a magazine at the end of the month we ve also submitted the site to lots of directories and is advertised on some of the auction places eg powersellersunite,pheebay,tamebay,auctionbytes etc we have got some fantastic members who are handing on flyers to customers on other sites and were getting more merchandise for promotions etc we ve still got some work to do on the marketing side but all things take time.

stri8ed · 10-05-2008, 02:18 PM

i really suggest before you really make the site public, fine tune the graphics a bit(it looks too much like a template), maybe a "take a tour page" explaining the basic steps to getting started, and really try and make it as simple and clean as you can.

good luck!

dynabid · 10-05-2008, 02:34 PM

At the moment we are working on our xmas theme which will change the graphics totally and will be alot better this is due to be completed and on the site at the end of october it ll totally change the way the site looks

YoungNFocused08 · 10-06-2008, 01:57 AM

It seems pretty good so far. Very active and I applaud the fact your using (in my opinion) the very best auction system out there, PHP Pro Bid.

I would suggest maybe a better style though, as when I first visited, the style still looked similar to the pre-made PHP Pro Bid template. I'm also assuming you have some features from Nash and Binaryweb on there. If not, you should check them out. Hit me up for those links.

Other then a fresh style, the site seems pretty promising. Keep up the great work and keep us informed...

dynabid · 10-06-2008, 03:21 AM

Thanks for the comments the style is abit like the original at the moment were runing on php 6.3 for the moment as there is still things very buggy on 6.4 and not all our features will work on 6.4 we did have a different style etc when we first did the site but the reently sold newest members what we have would nt work without changing the whole script the xmas template we are gettting made which is due the end of oct which will make the site my stylish etc and that will give us enough time to get a better design done for after xmas

crackah · 10-06-2008, 05:03 AM

Yuck, Way to cluttered. So your.. directly competing with ebay?

I wish there was a alternative to ebay... but there isnt.

dynabid · 10-06-2008, 05:15 AM

if you read the previous rposts about the clutter its all there as for ebay no one can compete with them or ever will were just a cheaper alternative and considering the time we ve been going were not doing to bad it will take time to build up we ll just wait and see what happens

crackah · 10-06-2008, 05:31 AM

Well good luck, Im sick of $500 a month ebay bills :S

dynabid · 10-06-2008, 05:42 AM

were also open to buyers/sellers from other countries as well australia,usa,canada,france,spain,switzerland,new zealand etc which we ve got a few members from different places already we offer a free store upto 20,000 items free basic listings inc upto 4 images per auction and fvfs at 1% we have had a few from ebay already due to there continous changes they seem to do across there some people are still happy there and there auctions seem to keep increasing by the 1000s daily like i said earlier no one can compete or ever will with them

crackah · 10-06-2008, 06:07 AM

Yeah, For now its just not large enough to bother with for me.

Sorry, My business only deals via ebay and right now, its just not what I need.

No doubt if you grow it i will take a more serious look.

dynabid · 11-18-2008, 10:11 AM

our ebay promotion ends the 1/12/2008 for all ebay members that register to dynabid get a preferred sellers account for 6 months inc no final value fees highlighted and featured listings free and all other features onsite free + everyone still gets there free store upto 20,000 items:

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