
http://www.bonanzle.com/booths/BrightestBlessings
This blog is about all of my fantastic finds and life at Bonanzle!
I have to tell you that I have been doing my holiday shopping for the last couple of weeks on Bonanzle and loving it. I don't have to leave my house use my gas, stand in lines and they deliver right to my door. However, I have to admit that I do check out a sellers profile prior to buying from them. I closed my e-bay store for the reason of scoring fees and having to pass those on to my customers. This was just wrong in my opinion. When I was invited to try out Bonanzle, I thought sure, why not. I spent a couple of days checking out the site and importing my items from e-bay. Everything went very well for me. I have a few sales right off the bat and continue to do so. I also edited my listings to make sure that they did NOT reflect an e-bay listing! This has to be one of my biggest issues that I have with sellers that are just to lazy to edit their listings! If they don't have time to edit their listings, they don't have time to take care of me the customer. How long will it be before they have time to answer and e-mail or mail out my purchase? Needless to say, as soon as I run across the words, bid, auction, e-bay store and the likes, I hit the back button! This is such a turn off for me. No excuse for not taking the time to clean your booth. It is very untidy to look at! Getting back to the profile page of a seller, here you can read about booth policies, shipping and return policy and whatever else the Bonanzle Booth owner wants you to know. Here is also where the Bonanzle Booth owner can list their contact information, websites, social networking profile address, Preferred IM ID, Skype ID and a contact me at for a phone number. Now I am just so amazed at the non business sense of so many of these sellers! Here at Bonanzle there are no listing fees and the final value fees are 1/3 of e-bay, no booth fees. So maybe someone reading this can help me to understand WHY any seller would put a web address leading back to their e-bay store?????? What it tells me is that they DON'T need my money they have plenty of money and love to pay higher final value fees, listing fees and store fees! So yes, I once again hit the back button. I feel that if you want to send someone to a place that has hurt lots of small business people, YOU are NOT going to get my money! I posted this question in the forums board asking why anyone would do this and the best answer that I received, “Because you just can't fix stupid.”. Sorry for the rant today, but I have shopping to do and today I seen items that I wanted to purchase, however for the reasons stated, I hit the back button.....
Like I said in an earlier post, I had started out on another site, however I had to keep raising my prices to cover the never ending fees. I didn't want to continue to raise prices so I was invited by someone to come and have a look at Bonanzle. WOW! I sure am glad that I took a few minutes of my time to check them out. I was told that it wouldn't take me 60 seconds to make a listing, yeah right, I thought. No kidding, Bonanzle is truly a one click listing procedure and it can be done in under 60 seconds. You can even crop your pictures at the same time, so everything is done, bam. My wooden Book of Shadows are all handmade my me. Special orders are always welcome. They can be safely expanded to 4 inches and larges if needed. Easy to take apart and rearrange your book when needed or to add to it. My tarot boxes are also handmade by me. Your tarot deck will fit nicely in them or can be used to hold stones, herbs or what nots on your altar. My latest are the complete altar kits. The wooden boxes hold everything neatly in them. I make the clay chime candle holers and the incense burners are also made of clay. What you see in the pictures are what you are getting. I set everything up to take the pictures and then tucked everything back into their wooden boxes. They are great for someone that travels or has a small apartment. There are also bracelets and a couple necklaces with pentacles, triquetras and my favorite are the pentacle hidden in the circle of hearts. Then there are of course those little gotta have items too. Grab yourself a cup of your favorite herbal tea and come check out my Bonanzle Booth located at: http://www.bonanzle.com/booths/BrightestBlessings
The listing count this morning is at 160107 with 3691 users!
Bonanzle is truly unique in the fact that they believe that the sellers need to know what is going on and and when. There is no guessing at Bonanzle whether there is a problem or updates being done to the site. These guys hit the discussion boards and let us know what is going to happen and when. Unlike the other site, you just never knew if it was a glitch or something that they were doing to the site. At Bonanzle, we are told in advance of up coming changes and when they will be done. In just the last week we have received a combined shipping discounts, the WYSIWYG Editor and now last night they double the server’s capacity, and by Friday they will be “faster still on Friday when I use our server's oodles of memory to add 50% more web servers to our cluster of them (translation from tech speak: it's going to keep getting faster) “ (Taken from the Bonanzle Blog on site) Not only did they do all of this in one night, they also added links on our Bonanzle page that are really useful and kewl. They also added a couple of blog entries and responded to the discussion boards. I would say the the Bonanzle Boys had a very long and productive night last night! The results from their effort are seen this morning while surfing on Bonanzle, very quick page loads! A job well done! I would encourage anyone that is looking for a new home or has had issues with other sites, to do yourself and your business a favor and just have a look at the site and the discussion boards. We currently have 146079 listings and 3196 users. Not to shabby for a site that started in June of this year and just came out of beta in September of this year! Bonanzle is cruising at very high altitudes. Come on over to Bonanzle and have a look.
https://www.bonanzle.com/users/2537/
http://www.bonanzle.com/booths/BrightestBlessingsI must say that I tend to shop where I sell. I just figure it's good business. So I found this wonderful little booth called Bubble Bars. I just had to have a look, it couldn't hurt, she was having a Bonanza! What's a Bonanza you ask? It is a scheduled sale set up by the booth owner. She was having 20% off! Yes! So off to shopping I went. It was very easy to drag your item to your shopping cart and move on. I purchased these items called bath bombs. Now for those of you that don't know what they are, besides the fact that you can choose over 460 scents, they are beautiful! They are all handmade and made to order, in your color, design and scent. They are huge bigger than a tennis ball. I also purchased soap that was in the shape of a shot glass and smelled of spiced rum. It really looks like a shot glass with contents, very kewl and all of it is soap. Not a container containing soap! Hairspray in over 460 scents! WOW! Now to pay my bill. For the first time ever, I was using Google Checkout to pay for my items. It was so easy and fast. I waited a couple of days and received my goodies. Before opening the box, I could smell the wonderful smells of my items, I was so excited to be opening my box. These bath bombs made my entire house smell absolutely wonderful! I have to caution you though, this has now become an addiction! I can't wait for her next Bonanza which is October 4,2008 at noon Texas time. A great seller with wonderful handmade products made just for you! She answers her e-mails and ships promptly! She has a great passion for what she does and all of your items reflect it! You can find her at:
http://www.bonanzle.com/booths/BubbleBars