<VV> Re: Ebay and Altoh

[Tareece@aol.com]

Ron,
   There simply must be a logical answer. I've been to your site (in the past 
month), and I must say it is a fine site. Looks like there was a lot of 
thought and effort that went into the design and execution of it. But, from a 
customer stand point, I want to expose my product to as many people as I can. And 
because Ebay has been the rage and is so established, its just a hard nut to 
crack. 
   As far as the reception you got, I can't explain that. Perhaps some people 
were well meaning and tried to balanace the "legalities" of the CPF and other 
institutions related to the club. Perhaps they realised that as a orphan car 
marque it might not make sense to constrict the reach further by perhaps 
neccesitating the need for memebers to have to remember two cumbersome addresses to 
track various auctions they might be interested in (I say this with 
experiance because I visit Yahoo as well as Ebay..I  can get tedious to track different 
things and also to remember certain differences in navigation of the two 
sites.)
   I will take it upon myself to say that noone wished ill upon your 
endevour. But the marketplace of internet auctions are reduced to two groups...EBAY 
and then everyoneelse...There's nobody even close to ebay in reach, hits, money 
swapped, and products sold.
 

In a message dated 8/29/2004 10:20:48 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
virtualvairs-request@corvair.org writes:
From: <qcc65@charter.net>
To: <virtualvairs@corvair.org>
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 8:21:02 +0000
Subject: <VV> CPF and auctions (Little Corvair)

See previous comments below and then......

What "part of the commission fees" what percentage?

I operated an auction website for over a year and committed 100% 
of the fees collected to CPF. Those fees were sent in every quarter. 
Couldn't get a mention fron the CPF or CORSA and was even told to be 
careful using the CPF or CORSA name on the website. Never got  a soul 
interested in buying and selling Corvair parts on ALTOH. Now Ebay 
is all the rage with our Corvair leadership and they are trumpeted 
in our national publication for the great things they do for us. 
This is not exactly sour grapes. I'm a big boy and I constantly 
learn lessons in the business world. JUst makes me wonder why I, 
a member was treated so differently?  


Ron Guy
CORSA member
 

Todd Reece
65 Monza Convert