another ebay wannabe

Headshot

just got email today ,how they got my email address i dont know but http://www.bidireland.com/

looks ok ,

well lads what do you think

kinkstr

First ive heard of them, i would'nt be to trusting so far as you just got a random email directing you to it

Basq

Seems a bit crap!

Hit on a dozen or so categories... each with no auctions!

EBay needn't worry just yet!

Headshot

i was going to register then i saw it you get 20 euro credit if yiou register
sounds fishy
ya its a scam it has to be

Basq

{(-_-)}HeadShoT** wrote:

i was going to register then i saw it you get 20 euro credit if yiou register
sounds fishy

Hmmmmm.... money for nothing... well, credit for nothing!

Definantly fishy!

bidireland

Hi headshot,

Bidireland is free to list, the reason for the 20 euros is to keep new accounts above zero euros, when the accounts hit zero they automaticaly suspend.

Hope this helps.

We only started this auction site last weekend, we're not trying to compete against ebay, just trying to provide a decent auction site for ireland as ebay don't have an irish auction and ebid.ie isn't the greatest.

Headshot

bidireland wrote:

Hi headshot,

Bidireland is free to list, the reason for the 20 euros is to keep new accounts above zero euros, when the accounts hit zero they automaticaly suspend.

Hope this helps.

We only started this auction site last weekend, we're not trying to compete against ebay, just trying to provide a decent auction site for ireland as ebay don't have an irish auction and ebid.ie isn't the greatest.

lol scamer

reporting now as we speak

bidireland

interesting..............

To who?

Headshot

bidireland wrote:

interesting..............

To who?

to the mods
for spam

come on .you just sighned up to tell every one about http://www.bidireland.com/

and how did ye get my email address :mad:

bidireland

We have a well known Irish web site promotion company handling our email marketing campaing, I don't send emails myself.

Headshot

bidireland wrote:

We have a well known Irish web site promotion company handling our email marketing campaing, I don't send emails myself.

i didnt say you sent them
but i rather not get spam :rolleyes:

bidireland

Anyway, sorry for the email.

If you have a need to use bidireland.com in the future then please do.

Happy Easter

RedRules5

Headshot, you're having a laugh? 15 mins after you post about the site, they respond!

Hobbes

Sounds a bit like astroturfing going on. How did you find this post bidireland?

samo

what are the odds?

bidireland

I saw the boards.ie URL in my Stats, someone had clicked through and it showed up as a referrer.

Mimikyu

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NotMe

Where's Infini when you need him? Someone make a gathering card for users who create an imaginary adversary to argue with as a sly way of promoting their product/service.

Stephen

His explanation is perfectly logical and sound you know.

bidireland

i can assure you I'm not Headshot.

here some of the log file

i'm just defending one of my sites.

Referals (last 50)
-- direct hit -- Mar 27, 2005 20:58:48
-- direct hit -- Mar 27, 2005 20:57:07
http://www.bidireland.com/categories.php?parent=912 Mar 27, 2005 20:56:44
http://www.bidireland.com/categories.php?parent=877&show=subcats Mar 27, 2005 20:56:38
-- direct hit -- Mar 27, 2005 20:56:17
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=239292 Mar 27, 2005 20:56:12
http://www.bidireland.com/categories.php?parent=215&show=subcats Mar 27, 2005 20:55:08
http://www.bidireland.com/ Mar 27, 2005 20:54:56
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=2538398 Mar 27, 2005 20:54:34
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=2538398 Mar 27, 2005 20:54:21
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=239292 Mar 27, 2005 20:54:04

Optikus

Stephen wrote:

His explanation is perfectly logical and sound you know.

Agreed.

Ciaran500

I guarntee thats not Headshot. Look at his punctuation, grammer and he even uses capitals at the start of sentences.

Mimikyu

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bidireland

We hope our site will be around for a while, we're not a fly by night company , we have a team of 4 web developers and 2 search engine optimizers, plus we're using a well known irish promotion company.
My team also operate a 10 million a year car hire website and have many years experiance of web startup.

Hopefully our site will provide a safe, free buying and selling enviroment.

I personally have traded on Ebay for 5 years and now think it's time for an auction site in Ireland.

Please try our site before judging us.

Mimikyu

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RedRules5

Headshot, my apologies.

Bidireland, where on your site is your company registration number, address or landline tel number. I know nothing about the legal requirements for your line of work but this info would help put my mind at ease.

seamus

I believe in man's right to defend his website and its reputation.

But is goes no further than this thread bidireland

Mimikyu

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bidireland

i'll add an about us section to the site tomorow with the address and the stuff needed.

I can assure you that I won't be "pimping" my site on the other boards, i don't really have the time to sit all day typing into these boards, i got past that in the 90's.

Chalk

would getting an ebay franchise or whatever not make more\sense than starting up a new site and npt advertising it in the papers/telly etc

L5

Ciaran500 wrote:

I guarntee thats not Headshot. Look at his punctuation, grammer and he even uses capitals at the start of sentences.

seamus

Solitaryman666 wrote:

This post has been deleted.

Innocent until proven guilty, etc.

The only reason he's here is because someone linked to his site.

L5

Chalk wrote:

would getting an ebay franchise or whatever not make more\sense than starting up a new site and npt advertising it in the papers/telly etc

I dont think ebay do "franchises"

Basq

Ha... good luck in selling this one for €90: http://www.bidireland.com/auctiondetails.php?id=20

I've got an nGage myself which i bought new for €80 (with €70 credit) this time last year!

Loco!!

Basquillech

I took a look and it costs about €5 just to put an item up for auction - rediculous

Matthewthebig

It comes with all she-yatt though.

dead air

Well, I have to add.. the site looks nice and clean and loads fairly fast. Now with just a bit more content, it looks like it could be one for the favourites.

A couple of suggestions though, some kind of "browse all" link would be handy in each of the parent categories. Because there isn't a lot of content right now but there is a lot of subsections, its hard to search through all the individual categories looking for items actually for auction.

Also, because it's an Irish website, you should at least customise the address fields in the register section for Irish users. City, State/Province and zip code should be replaced by just a "town" and "county" field. It wouldn't let me register with a zip code, I know I could probably put a 0 in or something, but I'm a very pedantic person. Was this website designed by yourself or did you buy a ready made template?

And just one more thing... "Photopgraphy"

Good luck with it.

Mossy Monk

cod, thats what the smell is

JohnCleary

bidireland wrote:

We hope our site will be around for a while, we're not a fly by night company , we have a team of 4 web developers and 2 search engine optimizers, plus we're using a well known irish promotion company.
My team also operate a 10 million a year car hire website and have many years experiance of web startup.

Hopefully our site will provide a safe, free buying and selling enviroment.

I personally have traded on Ebay for 5 years and now think it's time for an auction site in Ireland.

Please try our site before judging us.

Hear Hear.
Don't mock until you try (No offece but I wont be trying until I hear ;P )

Hobbes

Basquillech wrote:

I took a look and it costs about €5 just to put an item up for auction - rediculous

Its been a while since I last used ebay, but afair you also had to pay to put up items.

L5

Hobbes wrote:

Its been a while since I last used ebay, but afair you also had to pay to put up items.

not 5 euro though, you have the option of adding more and more stuff like bold writing etc at extra cost. You could put up a basic listing for maybe a euro or two

Headshot

RedRules5 wrote:

Headshot, you're having a laugh? 15 mins after you post about the site, they respond!

wtf you think i would steep this low my god

bidireland

As the auction says it's free to sell, the 5 euro your talking about is for the featured items that are also free for the time being, this is why you get 20 euros credit when you sign up.
I'm also looking at trimming the category lists down untill the content picks up.

i'll also look at a browse all section, the auction script was bought, now we're editing it, we have another script with more features but we're not going to use it untill the site gets a little bit more busy.

Hope i've answeres everyone's questions.

Basquillech wrote:

I took a look and it costs about €5 just to put an item up for auction - rediculous

Headshot

i dont even know how to create a website

Mimikyu

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Headshot

bidireland wrote:

As the auction says it's free to sell, the 5 euro your talking about is for the featured items that are also free for the time being, this is why you get 20 euros credit when you sign up.
I'm also looking at trimming the category lists down untill the content picks up.

i'll also look at a browse all section, the auction script was bought, now we're editing it, we have another script with more features but we're not going to use it untill the site gets a little bit more busy.

Hope i've answeres everyone's questions.

sorry about before

hope the website goes well for ya

Ciaran500

{(-_-)}HeadShoT** wrote:

i dont even know how to create a website

http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/

Now you can

bidireland

Thanks Headshot,

If anybody wants to view all the items on the auction please click on the word "search" and then on the box "search", don't enter any info and the search will return all the auction items.

Click here to view all the items

http://www.bidireland.com/auctionsearch.php

Headshot

Ciaran500 wrote:

http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/

Now you can

is it time consuming doing it cause i just dont have time these days

bidireland

It's not that time consuming, you can put a page together and upload it in half an hour or so.

Headshot

hows the site going bidireland