Quote:Bonnie and I have started a new venue for sellers. www.amboauctions.com

It's a new auctions site, with a different script than YHB. It uses Rscript.

This is a great thing for YHB, as now we will allow all members to cross promote between the two sites. This gives you just that much more exposure!!

The possibilities for members are wonderful!

Come check out www.AmBoAuctions.com

We do have a forum on AmBo, but it won't automatically register you for it, like YHB does, so please go register for both.

We are offering for all the current YHB members, if you are verified on YHB, we will verify you on AmBo. Please find this thread on AmBo to give us the info needed to verify you there.

If you have any questions, please register on the AmBo forums, and ask away! You can always email us at admin@yourhighbid.com or admin@amboauctions.com


This is only released to YHB Members at the moment and will have a final release soon.
Thanks!

A few points of interest...
1. "It's a new auctions site, with a different script than YHB. It uses Rscript." PHPProBid is $200, but Rscript is $100, making it the rinky dink auction site script king.
2. What seller would really want to "cross promote between the two sites" when compete.com shows the flagship site YHB gets just 50 visitors per member every month?
3. "This gives you just that much more exposure!!" 
4. How is it only released to YHB members if it is posted in the public section of the forum?

It's amazing how auction site owners feel the need to expand something that isn't even successful.

YHB isn't the only 2 script site

OvernightAuctions is running an RScript site at overnightauctions.com (20 stores) and a phpProBid site at overnightauctions.net (17 stores)

Milbid has been running 2 phpprobid scripts for the past 1-2 months at milbid.com (357 members, 1400 listings) and beta.milbid.com (71 members, 4600 listings)

YHB, Overnight Auctions, and Milbid all have monthly GMV's below $1000.

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YHB isn't the only 2 script site

OvernightAuctions is running an RScript site at overnightauctions.com (20 stores) and a phpProBid site at overnightauctions.net (17 stores)

Milbid has been running 2 phpprobid scripts for the past 1-2 months at milbid.com (357 members, 1400 listings) and beta.milbid.com (71 members, 4600 listings)
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If at first it doesn't fail, start one that will?  ;D

[quote author=mandy link=topic=18419.msg72386#msg72386 date=1221144146]

YHB, Overnight Auctions, and Milbid all have monthly GMV's below $1000.

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But they all have shiny happy people in their forums!

Quote:2. What seller would really want to "cross promote between the two sites" when compete.com shows the flagship site YHB gets just 50 visitors per member every month?

Compete shows that Zen #3 (7,750 uniques) in my signature receives almost as many visitors as the combined visitor count of  YHB (3167), Milbid (2557), and Overnight Auctions (.com-1627 .net-1800). PSU chart favorites AuctionQuests, HiBidder, Wensy, and UBidRight also receive fewer uniques than my tiny Zen Cart.

For some perspective on just how small those "rinky dink" auction sites are (and how unlikely they are to ever be noticed by the average buyer) - my "small" consumer electronics competitors like BeachAudio and Keenzo receive 100-140,000 monthly uniques each (compare that to OnlineAuction.com's 55K), my mid-size competitors like J&R, B&H, Buy receive 800K-2 million, and then there's Amazon at 55 million.

There are dozens of individual webstores in every category from apparel to video games (in many categories hundreds of stores) that receive more traffic (and have more SKUs for sale) than the tiny general auction sites that are promoted on OAI forums and listed on PSU's listing count chart.  If you want your listings to be hidden from buyers, join a rinky dink - if you want to have a chance of succeeding, skip the rinky dinks and open your own web store.

AmBoAuctions.com may have set a new record for lowest average sales price:

last 5 auction sales: 3.26, 0.99, 2.99, 2.75, 0.99
last 5 fixed price sales: 1.00, 0.50, 0.50, 0.50, 0.50

According to Google Base:
1.092 of 1,426 items are priced below $10
872 of 1,426 are below $5
679 of 1,426 are below $3
537 of 1,426 are below $2

The site currently has 69 members.  Quantcast projects 384 global visitors (334 of them from the US) for the site this month.

AmBo Auctions will be closing its doors on May 1st.  The owners attempted to auction it off for $600 but found nobody is willing to pay that amount for a script which sells for $99.

The Auction:

Quote:***AmBoAuctions - Site For Sale***    Date: 3/29/2009 Time:5:56:43 PM EST

Make An Offer: http://www.amboauctions.com/online/auction/view?cmd=view&listingID=7332

[color=rgb(0, 0, 255)]AmBoAuctions.com - Auction Site For Sale[/color]

[color=rgb(0, 0, 255)]Bid or Make Offer [/color]

This is a difficult decision for us and, it's not something we have thought of lightly. But we are going to sell AmBoAuctions. We would like to sell to someone that will take AmBo in a positive direction.  We started AmBo with the best intentions, but it took off faster than we expected. We can't give AmBo the time and dedication that the site and members deserve.
We want to do this ASAP, so if you are interested please bid or make an offer. Only serious bids and offers will be considered.

[left]Sell includes: [/left]
[left]amboauctions.com domain name
AmBoAuctions Code and Graphics
AmBoAuctions Script (rscript)
AmBoAuctions Site  Database/Member base
AmBo Forum with vBulletin Leased License
AmBoAuctions  Forum Database/Member base[/left]

"The Sell Includes"
"it took off faster than we expected" -the 7 month old site has 89 members, 2,123 listings, and averages 660 global visitors (Quantcast)/2,280 visitors (Compete) per month.

The farewell forum post:

Quote:UPDATE] AMBO- PLEASE READ! [color=rgb(113, 4, 19)]     As you may know, we have made the decision to sell AmBoAuctions. We have not received any offers to purchase the site, so we will be closing AmBo's doors on May 1, 2009. This was not a decision that we made lightly and are just as sad as we know our members are.


We are offering AmBoAuction Members the opportunity to open a Shop on SnagAShop.com (which we also own). All AmBo members will receive a discount which you can view at http://snagashop.com/ambo-members/info_11.html on the SnagAShop.com site. We revamped the site to make it into a "mall" type atmosphere. Everything that the SAS Shopping Mall has to offer is too much to list in this email, so come on over and look around. http://www.snagashop.com has lots of features that will help you build and run your own Online Shop.

As always, we welcome you to join and list on our sister auction site:  http://www.yourhighbid.com.

We will be moving the AmBo Forums over to the SnagAShop site right away. The SAS Forum will be used for SAS Shop Owners to list sales and promotions, General SnagAShop info, and lots of chat, fun, and games.

Thank you for your understanding and loyalty.

Your membership is appreciated.
Bonnie and Amy[/color]

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http://www.amboauctions.com/forums/showt...3#post7363

A special offer for AmBo's 89 members from Snagashop - a site which is badly in need of a REAL web designer.

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[color=rgb(0, 102, 0)]AmBo Members - We are offering you a discount on the SaS Carts due to the closing of AmBo.  
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[color=rgb(0, 102, 0)]You get 6 months free SaS cart, then a discounted rate of 4.99 a month after that.
[/color] [color=rgb(0, 102, 0)]This is ONLY offered to Current AmBo Members.  We strongly suggest you take advantage of this great deal!  [/color][/color]

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http://snagashop.com/ambo-members/info_11.html[/color]

Quote:It's sad when an auction site closes down when it's unsuccessful. It's amazing when an auction site closes down because it's too successful! and as a member you're told what's going to happen BEFORE it happens and offered 2 extremely viable alternatives.

http://www.powersellersunite.com/post-24...tml#249488

408 sales (2 a day) 2100 listings, 89 members. 2 sales a day isn't bad for a single hobby seller, but it actually breaks down to 2 sales a month for each of the 32 sellers. That's officially the new rinky dink auction site standard for "too successful." 

AmBo started a trend........Another one bites the dust 

WOGO Wrote:Site News

closing down
we are sad to confirm that wantonegotone.com will close in april 2009.unless we have any interested parties wanting to take it over.
due to the loss of one of our partners we have decided to offer wantonegotone.com and all associated sites to any interested party that may wish to take over the site.
for details or for more information pm me or email

wantonegotone is a auction trading platform with extensive modifications of the original phpprobid script and is currently hosted on a dedicated server and ip with secure ssl.
and has assoiated sites inc links, classifieds and a forum with arcade and shoutbox monifications.

this would be an ideal oppurtunity to take over a ready made auction site.
interested parties should contact us by pm or email for details.

http://www.wantonegotone.com/news,page,8...tent_pages

They should just use the Mark method...
Close the site for 2 weeks, and if less than 25 members post about it on PSU in 2 weeks don't bother reopening.

Another follows the leader.
From their homepage:
Bid-Alot.com domain name is FOR SALE. 
Online since 2003 as a safe and secure auction site.
    top rated #1 auction site
  Only $8.00 every quarter for sellers, FREE unlimited listings, $0 Final Value Fees. Free to sign up.
Announcement from January, meaning the $15,000 price tag is way too high and he just hasn't gotten it yet. Why would anyone pay $15,000 for a PHPProBid site that has less than 1,000 listings unless it was a scammer wanting to harvest the membership info? He may as well say, "Buy me, Romanian cartel!"
http://www.bid-alot.com/forum/showthread.php?t=12580
Also, it's quite interesting to read the admin's rants against the past mods and owners of Bid-Alot, even though he only adds into it once a year.
http://www.bid-alot.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1423