My advice, for happiness selling on any venue, stick to selling. Use the boards when you need info, but unless you love drama leave the conversation to the others.

Actually, I just pulled my few remaining listings from the site this past week and am trying to decide if I’m going to continue in any capacity.

My presence on the site has been low for several months now, honestly it came down to where I put my work following my sales (in my case, eBay). I lacked the patience to carve out my own niche on Bonanzle and decided in the end that effort would be better placed towards building my own cart around my existing site which is several years old and has a pre-existing following.

I still recommend Bonanzle as a great venue to try for those looking to spread their wings from eBay, especially if you’re looking for a venue and not your own selling platform.

Cliff

Thanks

Thank you, sir, always great to catch a compliment from you. In the unlikely event you’re not familiar with Scott Pooler of iBusinessLogic, please see the earlier post I did about him here.

I need not say anymore, except that I have been keeping an eye on the http://bonanzle-webstore.com site and I’m intrigued–my best guess is that Scott has teamed up with Bonanzle to create yet another exciting way of making the web more sociable. No inside info here, just totally winging that guess, but hoping that I’m right and excited to see the end product!

Back to the topic at hand, in case you missed it, I put together a post about Bonanzle aimed strictly at buyers over on the site Scott created for me, the VintageMeld, called Why You Should Buy From Me On Bonanzle. It’s the other side of the coin of the original post here.

Thanks,Cliff

You are a dynamo my friend… What a wealth of information and knowledge!

Bonanzle is creating a long term opportunity for those who take advantage of it. Just as you have and as many others will, spending a little time and effort now will pay off.

I have taken a keen interest in the Bonanzle.com site because of the long term possibilities, which at this point are no longer just possibilities, they are probabilities.

With your site http://vintagemeld.com working as a Bonanzle Webstore and with all of the great content you are able to place within your own stand alone ecommerce website related to the niche you target, combined with the back and forth linking availability with Bonanzle…. The time spent now building Vintage Meld or any other Bonanzle Webstore site will pay off for years and years to come.

eBay has nothing to compare for the small merchant, Amazon will not allow the merchant to build a brand in this way, Etsy has no opportunity like it. No where else can you combine inventories you maintain on eBay and on Bonanzle and present them in such a fashion to the public. The VintageMeld even has an Amazon store within its pages. We are proud to have helped you to create a hub of opportunity within the Meld! You have stocked it not only with products but with valuable content, content that will bring free organic traffic from across the globe into your VintageMeld shopping experience for weeks and months and years to come.

Soon, we will be announcing a new version of your ground breaking and unique http://Bonanzle-Webstore.com. We hope to take what you and I have learned together and what you have shown can be done with content based ecommerce marketing and make the product more affordable, easier to use, and thus available to many more wise merchants like yourself.

Bonanzle is a building block, it is a starting point which will allow anyone with the real desire to launch a long term viable ecommerce business to do so with low cost and a quick learning curve. http://bonanzle-webstore.com hopes to help those merchants like yourself to leverage that start into an independent channel website which will generate its own traffic and not be subject to the whims of a huge entity like eBay.

I have seen no other venue which will allow this kind of opportunity to exist. Bonanzle wants its merchants to succeed, not just for the final value fees, but because the founders enjoy making these opportunities available to small merchants. I applaud the idea and the ideal…

Thanks to Bill Harding and Mark Dorsey (Founders of Bonanzle) and to all who have helped them to make Bonanzle – da Buzz of the Internet!

Absolutely, I hear from friends and online acquaintances doing well on Bonanzle. Now I know I sell good stuff and I’m pretty sure I know what I’m doing, so my best explanation for any lack of sales for me personally is that the niches are still filling with buyers. There’s every possibility that I never find a strong market for either/or my movie collectibles or magazine back issues at Bonanzle, and at the same time the possibility exists that I find a regular flow of buyers for both or either of my niches as well.

Hopefully my VintageMeld site built by iBusinessLogic can help my existing traffic find me at Bonanzle and thus help fill my niches for not only me, but other sellers as well. I have every confidence that it will.

Thanks again, Bill, and also Dan and R.E. Very glad to have my booth and looking forward to the continuing growth throughout ’09 and beyond.

Cliff