This is a new low profit australian owned classifieds who are currently offering the first 10,000 items listed for sale free with no strings attached. Offering an alternative to big listing fees no final sale fee and all aussie owned. it cant hurt and you might even enjoy it. clear out the shed for xmas and make some money doing it.
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thanks i will do that:)
Just a question, what would be the benefit of this compared to say, Gumtree?
i guess the main reason is that yub is owned by an Australia business, so profits stay in australia with a percentage of those profits going to back to registered australian charitys. gumtree is owned by ebay.
but your right yub is a classifieds who's purpose is to put people face to face with each other like a newspaper add. no paypal either.
Gumtree is scammer heaven lol!!!
I've seen soooo many people get scammed, It's kinda sad.
Wish you well, but really its like the bulletin boards at the supermarket - free but very limited market. Frankly you'll have to provide more than 10000 listings free before the momentum gets results. Its not just the price its making the sale
"Yub will donate 10% of the listing fee to a charity of your choice." - I personally think this is a bad idea. It's effectively forcing people to donate to charity just to be able to list an item. Considering Gumtree is free, I think you'll have a hard time getting people to pay anyway, but you'll have an especially hard time if you're requiring people to make a donation as well. I think it's a great idea that you intend to give to charity, I just think that rather than attract people, the way you've gone about it may actually put people off. I think that a good alternative would be to donate 10% of all profits to maybe one or more charities, with a vote to decide the recipients.
I guess you're right in a sense, but then some grocery stores (I think it's Ritchies) does something very similar… So the assumption could also be made there that you're paying an overhead on the actual product cost just to cover the donation amount (and without the tax benefits). Then again, I'm not sure whether Ritchies is in business (and frankly don't care to check!) so maybe you're dead-on.
I think the real issue is providing a market. Whilst it's great you're getting people to SELL, we really need people to BUY. The site looks great, but why would I want to list on your site as opposed to ebay? Sure, ebay/paypal tag-team to rape me with fees, but at the end of the day, I'm sure my products are being exposed to 20x (realistically, a whole lot more than that) the people that your site can offer… and, in turn, 20x the sales.
Like I said, the site looks great.. But you're going to have to pour some $$ into it to get the buyer market there once sellers start listing things.
Bah, low profit Australian business…..sounds alot like my business!
How is this Aussie business bashing - these are valid comments - at least here you get some market feedback - if these guy's want to make a go of it, then they need to understand that sales will have to be made. If not they will just waste their money.
Aussie businesses have to perform to make it. Just because its Aussie is not good enough. How many Aussie businesses when they get going sell out to the big guys because of the profits - so the Aussies who support them get no benefit. So it cuts both ways.
In this case it was advice to help - no one voted this deal down, just gave constructive advice
Oztion is aust and doesnt charge a listing fee at all.they have been around for 4/5 years now and are secont to ebay. They dont have the numbers of lurkers like ebay but you dont have to start your price at .99 to avoid high listing fees either.
Mate, you might want to put the actual bargain (free listings) in the title or people are just going to see this as spam.