Auction Wally Goes Live Auction On Bonanzle

Get this on your calendar, Auction Wally is going to do a live auction at his Bonanzle Booth on Saturday, January 10,2009 at noon eastern time! This will be his first live auction at his Bonanzle booth!

Auction Wally is a licensed MA auctioneer with over 25 years experience. His auctions no matter where they are at, are no reserve, no minimum. The way auctions were met to be!

He is also a writer for the National Online Newspaper, The Examiner.com, he writes an Antique Column just full of information. He also has two talk shows, Brainstorming Bonanzle and The AuctionWally Show. Both of these shows are so much fun and the information is tremendous. If you do just one thing that this man suggests from each show you will increase your traffic.

Auction Wally has also set up a ning network, The AuctionWally Network. This is a fairly new site, however the information here is just great! Lots of nice folks there with the same interests.
Lots of pictures too.

He also has his own site AuctionWally. This is a very cool site lots of information here. I am a picture freak and he has lots. He does online appraisals which can be found at his AuctionWally Bonanzle Booth. Not to mention his Audio Book CD Selling Your Valuables in Tough Times.

If you are just starting out or been at it many years, this man is the man to follow around. He has a wonderful sense of humor and so much knowledge that he is willing to share, just for the asking.

Make sure to mark your calendars and come join the first live Auction Wally auction! Very exciting indeed!

Bonanzle On The Super Sized Side

Bonanzle has had some huge growth in just a few short months. With 15869 users and just a little over 3000 Bonanzle Booth owners with 597354 listings this site is moving up. On the Auction Wally "Brainstorming Bonanzle" at talkshoe.com, there had been a few limited discussions about Bonanzles growth and large sellers moving onto the site.

There were mixed feelings about the large sellers coming to the site after the work of buiding it up and taking over with their thousands of listings. Buried listings seemed to be a concern as well as turning Bonanzle into something we had all left behind.

Change is good, although at times seems to be a very hard to do. If the other site had not made so many changes, that never seem to end, I and a lot of other folks would have continued to stay right there. In this case change was a very good thing. Bonanzle was born and the change of selling on another venue was a very good change. A very welcomed change!

Growth for a site is very good as long as it is planned for. I am sure that many still have doubts about what will become of Bonanzle when we are super sized. Will the small to medium sellers still have a home that they have all worked at building? Will it still be a friendly and very helpful community?

Last night Bill posted a new Bonanzle Blog that is well worth the read! Titled, "You Wonder: What Happens When We're Huge?". My take on this is that Bonanzle will not change nor the community, we will just super size. Bill and Mark are still answering their e-mails, still posting on the boards, still have their Bonanzle booths and still making improvements to the site.

If your are looking for a new selling or buying venue, you really need to take a few minutes and check out Bonanzle. Bonanzle is like a large family if someone needs help more than one will be there to help. The deals are wonderful and the items are so unique! The real time chat is just awesome, you can haggle right there on the price, no waiting for e-mails to be exchanged, or set up a time to meet in a booth and chat away. Come on over to Bonanzle, met some really nice folks and get yourself some really great deals.

Thank You Bonanzle!

This year is quickly coming to a close another year gone. Bonanzle born in 2008, has had a wonderful first year! So many firsts for this new selling venue, so many wonderful things. Bonanzle has truly been a blessing for so many sellers.

With e-bay wanting to get rid of the small sellers and go to the big box sellers there didn't seem to be to many real options for the small seller. Then along comes Bonanzle! Our hero!

The rising cost of doing business on e-bay ( seemed to be rising for the small seller only) was not going to work for me or my customers. Every time they raised their prices I had to do the same.
Passing on the cost to my customers.

I started out selling my items at a cost that everyone could afford and having to keep raising those prices to cover e-bay fees, well it just wasn't working for me any longer.

Then e-bay decides that sellers are only allowed to take their other company's method of payment PayPal. Well let me say there are lots of people that don't have a PayPal account and will NOT give their information on line. Yes, I take money orders and will continue to do so. Just not at e-bay. Yes, I have even taken personal checks.

E-bay use to be a fun place to sell and to buy, not any more. I use to buy everything on e-bay. I liked buying unique items that I was able to find there, not any more.

I have found a new home, one that is fun again to buy and to sell. One that I can once again find the unique items that I love to buy. One that I can run my business the way that I see fit to run it. One that allows me to take any kind of payment that I want to take. One that has no listing fees, no booth fees and the final value fees are nothing to worry about.

Bonanzle is now my new home! The founders Bill and Mark have made selling fun again! So simple to list, one small page to list, add up to four pictures and crop them at the same time. One click listing!

Bonanzle has grown to become #6 on the PSU listing count board has 564991 listing with 15464 users and 3002 Bonanzle Booths. That is some kind of growth!

The Bonanzle community is so friendly and helpful! If anyone has a question they can go to the boards and within minutes they will have an answer. Not a rude response, but a real answer. There have also been loads of "Secret Santas" at Bonanzle. What a feeling to receive a package not knowing what is inside with your name on it, just makes you feel like a child again.

I want to thank Bill and Mark for all of the endless hours of work that they have put into Bonanzle! These guys answer your e-mails, not an auto response canned answer, but they really answer your e-mails. They show up on the fourms and respond to posts. They even have their own Bonanzle Booths. They have given small sellers something to look forward to again!

They have given the small sellers back their business! They have given us hope again. They have given me a reason to expand my business in 2009! Something that I had just pretty much hadn't even thought about. I haven't been this excited since I first started selling on line.

Thank you Bill, Mark and the whole Bonanzle community for all that you do and continue to do! You are an awesome group of people! Have a wonderful and safe holiday!

Excellent Week For Bonanzle

Bonanzle has had a most excellent week. On Thursday the 18th Bonanzle hit the half million items listed and today Sunday, the 21st we will hit the 15000 user mark! That is some kind of grass roots effort in a very short amount of time. Congratulations to Bill and Mark and the whole Bonanzle community! A job well done, however not finished by a long shot.

It is official Bonanzle hit the 15000 member mark at 2:47 p.m. est on 12/21/08! Kimkav is the 15000 new Bonanzle member. Welcome to Bonanzle!

Bill's little surprise a few days ago also included redirect link for Bonanzle booths. Now when using your url, you no longer need to use "booth" . Way to kewl!

Currently there are 2927 Bonanzle booths, which means there are lots of new users, that are buyers.

If you have a Bonanzle booth it is critical that you use the Google Feed to upload your product to the Google search. There are many more sales coming into the site from the Google search. If you are needing help with this you can see the thread "All Googe Base Posts Are In One Post Here". Make sure to read the first post. This thread will answer most questions.

Sandy of BargainBasement Bonanzle booth is an asset to the Bonanzle community! She has set up simple how to's and lists them as freebies in her Bonanzle Booth complete with screen shots. So for those that need just a little more help with the Google Base feeds this is wonderful. Thank you Sandy for all that you have done and continue to do!

If all else fails then just contact Mark and he will set it up for you! Please make sure to read his post and send all of the information that he is asking for. Tell me of another site where one of the site owners is willing to set up your Google feed?

If you are looking for a community friendly site to buy or sell then you really need to check out Bonanzle! You will be oh so glad that you did!

New Things This Morning At Bonanzle

This morning after logging into Bonanzle, there is another one of Bill's Blogs, "Indulgent Snow Day". He has once again worked through out the night on new features at Bonanzle. This guy just doesn't sleep. He also has a great sense of humor, well worth a read to start your day with a smile.

Bill has added the calculated shipping cost from the items page. This means that you no longer have to get to checkout to discover what the shipping charges will be. It will go from your zip code if you are logged in, if not you will have to enter a zip code. This I do believe will help with sales for lots of sellers. I don't like to be surprised at the shipping charges at checkout.

Bill has also added the smiley's to the e-mails, hand picked items list and blog comments. You can now add pictures, bold and italics. The smiley's have thrilled many on the forums.

Now this next one has been something that loads have asked for and have now gotten. A user can now search for another user in the search with their user ID. This search will also bring up the users hand picked list.

He has also made it so that when you are switching between pages in a booth, the page no longer has to refresh, less time to load.

Bill's late night update says, "I just decided the next fun thing to add, and I added it. But I'm going to leave it as an Easter egg for some sleuth to uncover. I'll give you one hint: it'll help with your business cards." Like I said, he has a sense of humor.

Bonanzle is still #6 on the PSU listing count board this morning, with 14606 users. This is some kind of growth!

Bonanzle Has Over A Half Million Listings!

Another milestone for Bonanzle was hit yesterday with a listing count of over a half million! The PSU listing count board shows Bonanzle is still in the #6 slot. Currently Bonanzle has 14452 users and 2868 Bonanzle Booth owners.

Bonanzle has also been nominalted for Small Business Computing 2009 for best e-bay alternative. The results will be announced January 28,2009. Be sure to make your vote count.

ECommerence-Guide Essentials yesterday did an article on "Our Picks For Top e-bay Alternatives". This is from the article, "Bonanzle carries the title of the fastest growing alternative ever, and every month since July, Bonanzle's traffic has either doubled or nearly doubled."

If you are looking for a true alternative to e-bay without all of the hassles, constant changing of your listings, PayPal only payment, auto response canned answers, and the high cost of listing and selling, come on over to Bonanzle and check it out.

Bonanzle has NO listing fees, NO booth fees, and very small final value fees. You have nothing to lose and so much to gain!

Bonanzle Takes #6 On PSU Board !

This morning Bonanzle is # 6 on the PSU listing count board! A day later than I thought it would happen, however it did! Bonanzle has 14123 users this morning and 2822 Bonanzle Booths! Bonanzle is growing at a rapid rate everyday!

There is also a new Bonanzle Blog this morning "help us test a new server". I don't understand all of this techional stuff, but I am sure it is going to help the site more with international sales!

The Auction Wally show Brainstorming Bonanzle went on even with an ice storm. Auction Wally showed up and Mitzi too! As usual it was a great show! If you missed the show you can listen to it and read the chat too! It was almost a two hour show! Lots of fun and loads of information!

There is always something new at Bonanzle! Come on over and met some real nice folks and get some great deals!