04-30-2008, 10:38 AM
Quote:Wigix has launched a beta version of its site that it says
combines NASDAQ-style trading with a community-driven
marketplace. Sellers can list their item for any price, and
buyers have the option to pay the listed price or offer an
alternative price - both parties can accept or reject the bid...
full article: http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y08/m04/i30/s04
Ars reviews the site:
Quote:The online marketplace for selling products is dominated by the old guard in the form of eBay, and the free guard with Craigslist. While there are plenty of other venues at which you can buy and sell goods from other individuals, newcomer Wigix mixes a little bit of Amazon, eBay, and crowdsourcing Web 2.0 tools to present a new kind of marketplace...
full article: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/200...hairs.html
Gigaom on the new site:
Quote:When it comes to online auctions Iâm far more likely to be on the selling than the buying end. I am just not that into stuff. So Iâm probably not the right person to evaluate a startup like Wigix, which launches its public beta today. The one-year-old business, which has raised $5.3 million from Draper Fisher Jurvetson positions itself as a stock market for stuff...
full article: http://gigaom.com/2008/04/29/is-wigix-an-ebay-killer/
VentureBeat:
Quote:When an item is listed on Wigix, the seller wonât need to go through the task of describing it and posting pictures. Instead, they find the item in Wigixâs database, select it, and choose a price, with an eye to the average price.
Buyers, likewise, need only find the item theyâre looking for through a single search on Wigix. Once theyâre on the page for that item, they can see last prices it sold at, how many buyers and sellers there are, descriptions, reviews and more. If they want to buy it, they put in a bid price; when a seller meets the price, the transaction will be made...
full article: http://venturebeat.com/2008/04/29/wigix-...kill-ebay/
Ecommerce Guide:
Quote:Wigix charges no insertion fee, and any transaction less than $25 is free. Buyers are charged $1.50 when a purchase is made, but the seller pays depending on the amount, with a decreasing-sliding rate: $1.50 for a sale between $25 and $100; $1.50 plus two percent of the amount above $100 for a sale between $100 and $1,000; and $21 plus one percent of the amount above $1,000 for a sale of more than $1,000.
Sales on the site, for now, are handled through PayPal, and Chong said that there is a utility that eBay sellers can use to import their inventory, along with plans for custom storefronts this summer for Power Sellers.
The Wigix team also believes its search function is better than eBay's, providing results that are specific to the item, as opposed to eBay's, where results can often be unwieldy and include storefronts with unrelated products...
full article: http://www.ecommerce-guide.com/news/news...hp/3743561
the site: http://www.wigix.com/