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Got rejected by TechStars again, but we're getting better at it
- pxlpshr 18y agoThanks for sharing! What surprised me was the comment by DreamIT Ventures who said "competing with eBay is crazy". Quite frankly, I haven't used eBay in quite some time... it's turned into more or less a storefront for drop-ship merchants and less like the glory days I remember. I know the critical mass issues makes challenging eBay/Craigslist rather difficult, and probably turns off investors... But, I think there's room for a new, much improved bidding platform.
- ericwaller 18y agoa combination of ebay and adsense – where you would put your auctions on other peoples’ websites as ads I think this a great idea. Have you thought about trying to partner with other ad networks as a quick way to get access to content publishers? That could go a long way toward solving the chicken/egg problem of how to attract sellers to your marketplace.
- brandnewlow 18y agohttp://www.auctionads.com http://www.auctionads.com
- scumola 18y agoYea, they're the first ones that we found when researching the idea. They're now quiet and own something like shoppingads.com and did a similar thing, but only with ebay items through their partner/affiliate system. We're doing our own system (no sniping in our system, btw), and the auctionads.com people seem to be very quiet nowadays. It's our guess that they were acquired and put to bed.
- sachinag 18y agoIf you're interested in feedback, send me a note - we don't have auctions on Dawdle, but I'd be happy to share a lot of the auction research we have.
- pclark 18y ago> "they told us that competing with ebay was crazy"