nickmango Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 My brother Tom and I have been working on an auction/community site for vinyl, clothing, prints, etc, for a while now and we're getting close to launching the beta. If anyone watches my video blog or listens to my podcast you know I love ebay. But it has it's problems. It's very hard to find things on there because of how vast and broad it is. It's also corporate as hell. They charge crazy fees to sellers. I miss the days of Skylab where if you wanted to auction a demo tape or a record, you could just throw it up there for free and there was no bullshit. So Tom and I decided to try to do something about it. I have some screenshots for everyone to look at if you're interested. http://bit.ly/jGgX1 First thing you're going to notice is we have a spot for collections, and that you can trade within the site as well as auction. There's a screenshot of the deal making system that my bro devised which is pretty cool. There's also a bunch of other things that I could talk about but I want to keep this short. Here's our plan of attack over the next month: First we made a Username Reserve page/ Beta signup. Really this is just to lock you in to the beta release, which should happen in 2 weeks. And make sure no one takes your username. We're going to also make something cool to put next to any of these usernames to let people know you're OG haha should be fun. Consider this the pre-order. http://bit.ly/12mGaX that's the reserve/beta signup page Next 1-2 weeks I'm going to make screencast videos detailing each section and how it works, then post them to this thread. Maybe 1 each day or so. They take a little while to make cause I have the editing skills of a gorilla, but when they're done, they're pretty cool. You can ask Juan. He saw a prelim screencast I made for him a few days ago. He's helping us out with ideas and suggestions which we appreciate a lot. Then after 2 weeks we launch the beta. You'll be able to put your list in and check out the deal system. You'll also be able to post auctions, but they won't actually be real auctions yet. This is just a time to get people acquainted with the site and see how it works. It's also a time for Tom to see if there's any issues. So it would be real cool if people just posted stuff and bid. Posting auctions where you are trying to sell small children and sex toys are encouraged. We'll make sure everyone knows it's not real. That will happen for about 2-3 weeks. Then we're going to try and get this thing up for reals. We have a ton of ideas. More than my brother can handle, but he's a workaholic, so I like challenging him. I'll keep this thread updated as often as I make a screencasts. I really hope everyone likes what we've come up with. thanks a lot Nick UPDATE 9-20-09 New blog that will handle all the previews is up http://bit.ly/1aAp59 The preview link above now forwards to the blog as well. Screencast to be up this evening. First one will be the Auction Search Results page. Thanks Update 9-20-09 9:00pm est The Auction Search Results screencast is up on the LP blog http://bit.ly/UPBSY Let us know what you think! Update 9-21-09 8:20pm est New Screencast - Create an Auction http://bit.ly/nLvwD had some fun with this one. Update 9-22-09 10:00pm est New Screencast - Inside an Auction http://bit.ly/2SAZ0K I did this from the seller's point of view and the bidder's. This is where it starts to get interesting. No video tomorrow. I'm going to make the Inside the Collection 2 parter and post thursday. Seport is good http://twitter.com/seport Update 9-23-09 8:30pm est New Screencast - Collection Management http://bit.ly/1OyOSk This explains the collection management system and leads into the rest of the trade/sell section of the site. Update 9-25-09 9:30pm est New Screencast - Deal Making http://bit.ly/CzLa5 This is a quick run through of how the deal making system works. It might be confusing the first time around, cause I only get 5 minutes to make the video and it's a complicated system that no one has really tried before. Hopefully you get the gist. Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks! Update 10-4-09 12:17pm est we just hit the button on the first wave of invites. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cosmonaut Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 Sounds good. I miss Skylab. I look forward to seeing the site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devinr Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 That does sound rad. I miss Skylab too. I got some amazing stuff off of there. The only time I had an issue the seller actually went to jail. I never heard from the dude and then 8 months later I received the t-shirt and a letter stating why he went to jail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Another Tom Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 Just reserved my user name. I'm looking forward to having a play with this. I never used Skylab but eBay, as much as i use it, irks me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devinr Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 oh yeah and I reserved my user name as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrc Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 once this gets up and running you need to promote the hell out of it. Looking forward to seeing how it turns out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtz Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 The screen shots look good Nick! I'm excited to check it out. Also just reserved my user name. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thousandjulys Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 sounds neat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cactusbot Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 Looks really nice. Stoked on it. Reserved my username. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhulud Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 This is going to be massively awesome. I am stoked to see it go live and get rolling full-steam ahead. People...esp. vinyl nerds like all of us...will be pleased. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 sounds good, ebay is annoying Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkticon Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 reserved my name! can't wait to check it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duff Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 sounds interesting. as long as any fess you implement, if any, are lower than ebay's i'm all for it. i went ahead and reserved my name. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opivy Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 reserved my name! can't wait to check it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One Hundred Fifty-Two Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 Nick have you already posted this on VLV, recordnerd, DF, and B9. If not do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocknroll76 Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 Signed up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sonix Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 this looks good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickmango Posted September 18, 2009 Author Share Posted September 18, 2009 sounds interesting. as long as any fess you implement, if any, are lower than ebay's i'm all for it. i went ahead and reserved my name. I'm not a big fan of fees to be honest. What I'm absolutely sure about right now is there will be a free account that will allow everyone to do basically anything on the site. This free account will probably let you have a bunch of simultaneous auctions and unlimited everything else. But besides that we will probably figure out a yearly subscription fee for people/distros that auction tons of stuff and are always turning things over. Not sure what that will be right now though cause we don't know the costs. But I would think it could be something like 40 or 50 bucks for the year, which would get you an insane amount of simult. auctions and then a ton of other features that I will explain in the videos. For 75% of the vinyl world the free account will be good I think. Especially if it's easy to post. Which it will be. That was one of my absolute have to haves. Easily creating an auction from your list. This way you can just hit a button and boom the item is out there and you can get yourself some cash. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickmango Posted September 18, 2009 Author Share Posted September 18, 2009 Nick have you already posted this on VLV, recordnerd, DF, and B9. If not do it. this weekend I will be posting on those boards definitely. Right now I just wanted to get it in here cause this is the forum I follow on a daily basis. Plus because of Juan, I think you guys should get first crack at seeing any updates. thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desensitizedbyu Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 This is awesome! Hope it all works out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
000000 Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 signed up, looking forward to it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zac Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 Looks and sounds great. Signed up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
refused Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 count me in Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
konsonant Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 Nick have you already posted this on VLV, recordnerd, DF, and B9. If not do it. You should also post this in the record collecting forum over at FatwreckWiki: http://www.fatwreckwiki.com/phpBB3/viewforum.php?f=20. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xlovecolouredx Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 i wanna be the first thai member of there. count me in.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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