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Telebid – German Ebay alternativeBy Emmanuel the 28 January 2008
Category : Once Upon a Time..., Uncategorized
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28 Jan |
TeleBid, basically, works like Ebay in the sense that users bid for products and the highest bidder wins the auction. On this website, however, users can follow life auctions in real-time. This means a clock is displayed below every product counting minutes and seconds, and users can bid until 1 second before the end of the auction. Once a bid is made 20 seconds are added to the clock giving it the feel of a life auction.
Now the big difference to Ebay is that on TeleBid, every bid costs 0.50€ and has to be pre-purchased. Additionally to making single bids manually, users can set up a BidButler to make bids for them when they do not have time to bid themselves. The BidButler can be set up to only bid between a pre-determined price range and users can also select how many bids the program can make; keeping in mind that every bid is charged with 0.50€. To bid strategically, however, TeleBid advises its users to use a combination of manual single bids and the BidButler.
Another difference to Ebay and other auctioning websites is that users can bid via telephone. The 0.50€ per bid will then be added to the phone bill.
Also, users can only bid on products set up for auction by TeleBid. Users cannot sell their own products.
