Auctionturn.com

[adrian]

I just read in this week's midweek (why do I have it on a monday, I have no idea) about a local couple who started something that will help noobs to ebay sell their stuff online.

Its called auctionturn.com (http://www.auctionturn.com) and from the Midweek article, you can give them your product you want to sell, they'll take the pictures, write a good description, handle the selling, shipping, storage until sale, all for 20-35% of what the product got you, and you'll pocket the rest. I don't know about you, but that sound like a good deal, considering that they ship it via UPS and it'll stay on ebay for 7 or 10 days.

If I still have some stuff to sell (and a transportation to carry it there) then I'd do a "Hawaii Threads Review" and see how it works.

[pzarquon]

Interesting. The local market already has one eBay sellers' service, wesellthings4u (http://wesellthings4u.com/), started by Punahou grads Tiffany Tanaka and Nikki Sword. They were profiled (http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2004/Sep/01/bz/bz08a.html) by the Honolulu Advertiser in September, among other places (I know they were featured on more than one local TV news station).

I already thought they had their work cut out for them, given the national reach and marketing power of AuctionDrop (http://www.auctiondrop.com/), a nationwide service that benefits from operating hand-in-hand with UPS Stores.

Here's Auctionturn.com's eBay inventory (http://stores.ebay.com/AUCTIONTURN) (71 items) and here's the current inventory of wesellthings4u (http://stores.ebay.com/WESELLTHINGS4U) (147 items).

While wesellthings4u is a decidedly grassroots operation, the folks at Auctionturn.com meanwhile are offering franchise opportunities (to snap up additional drop locations and get more researchers/sellers). The latter approach will be interesting... I can imagine they'll have more of a problem with consistency than a small office.