Hello,
Although I do not list in the categories with current Battlebids auto attach, I think it is a great idea. The categories currently with Battlebids are great for game playing, attention arousing buyers.
Battlebids will keep a bidder/buyer on the item page. The longer someone stays the more likely the bid!
Stay in a barbershop long enough and sooner or later you will get a haircut.
Change is good. If things did not change we would still be listing in DOS.
Auctiva is good at innovation and I am sure they will make it a successful add-on. They also know when to bug out.
Rich Beck
Hi! I too have been a tad worried over the Battlebids as well ~ I am a varely new seller (been around for a spell as a buyer though) and a very small time seller but still I am a bit apprehensive regarding how the Battlebids will/can affect my auctions ~ I also noticed in another post earlier the mention of a seller concerned with her Dial Up Customers and the bogging down of the loading of thier auction if the Battlebids was present ~ I just wanted to let that Poster know or any other seller who may be concerned about this that I have Dial Up and awful ancient phone lines and am lucky if I get connected at 44 kbps and at 44 kbps I opened up jtr8178 past auction (thank you for the link to your auction by the way!) and was quite surprised to see how quickly and smoothly I was able to see the history of the "Race". I don't know if it will be that quick with the actual game vs just seeing the past history of the game but just wanted to let you know from a slow dial up prospective how it went. Take Care all and Good Luck on your Future Auctions!
I am new here and I was reading about the battlebids. I myself think it's a good idea, anything new on ebay and your listing would help. I checked the link above out and was watching the game. Can the game only be played if you are actually bidding? People won't be deceived into thinking they are just simply playing a game and not really bidding will they?? Other than people getting upset because they won something by mistake because they wanted to check out the game, I think it is a really good idea.
With all the problems we have on eBay glitches and with Auctiva this new option is completely senseless.
Why a game on listings? Just something to screw up out listings, make them load slower and make even more maintenance downtime.
This just doesn't make sense.
Why a game on listings? Just something to screw up out listings, make them load slower and make even more maintenance downtime.
This just doesn't make sense.
Maybe it won't be so bad...I looked at it again & found myself completely bored after about 5 seconds........ 
I want an answer to the following:
If a buyer comes in my auction...sees the GAME..PLAYS THE GAME...Does he win the auction?
I just played the game on my own listing...it made me think I won my own auction.
Answer.....Please?
This might be one of the stupidist Ideas I have ever seren on EBay/Paypal...Ever !!!
Thats saying something !
8+ year vet..seen alot & this is at the top....wow!
If a buyer comes in my auction...sees the GAME..PLAYS THE GAME...Does he win the auction?
I just played the game on my own listing...it made me think I won my own auction.
Answer.....Please?
This might be one of the stupidist Ideas I have ever seren on EBay/Paypal...Ever !!!
Thats saying something !
8+ year vet..seen alot & this is at the top....wow!
Hey JoeBob,
That's a VERY good question...but I don't think that was a true 'test' because from everything I've read, Ebay's bidding system does not let you bid on your own auction (Don't know for sure, never tried it)
Maybe you could ask your winning bidders if they played the game and what happened when they did ??
But I agree...I don't like the idea either..wonder how many members actually use this thing
That's a VERY good question...but I don't think that was a true 'test' because from everything I've read, Ebay's bidding system does not let you bid on your own auction (Don't know for sure, never tried it)
Maybe you could ask your winning bidders if they played the game and what happened when they did ??
But I agree...I don't like the idea either..wonder how many members actually use this thing
What a horrible idea! Adding this crap without our permission. Took me forever to remove it from all my new listings. I have now disabled it, but I sure wish I'd been given that option BEFORE Auctiva stuck it in my listings. We don't need more garbage clogging up the listings.
Ramon,
Sorry to hear you did not receive the emails we sent out. You might want to check your spam filter to make sure that emails coming from Auctiva are not being flagged as spam. We sent out three different emails over a period of two weeks to give people a heads up on the addition of BattleBids to items listed in specific categories.
So that you and other users know, we also have a support tool to remove the BattleBids game from your listings if you accidentally did not turn the setting off in your Auctiva account. Simply write into our support team and let them know.
On a more positive note, we have had some really positive reviews, including an article posted by Auctiontips.com, which pointing out several good reasons on how BattleBids adds benefit to sellers.
You can view the article in their October archive, look for it as the number 4 topic, about half way down the page here:
http://www.auctiontips.com/archive/index.php?article=art_october07
-Kevin
Sorry to hear you did not receive the emails we sent out. You might want to check your spam filter to make sure that emails coming from Auctiva are not being flagged as spam. We sent out three different emails over a period of two weeks to give people a heads up on the addition of BattleBids to items listed in specific categories.
So that you and other users know, we also have a support tool to remove the BattleBids game from your listings if you accidentally did not turn the setting off in your Auctiva account. Simply write into our support team and let them know.
On a more positive note, we have had some really positive reviews, including an article posted by Auctiontips.com, which pointing out several good reasons on how BattleBids adds benefit to sellers.
You can view the article in their October archive, look for it as the number 4 topic, about half way down the page here:
http://www.auctiontips.com/archive/index.php?article=art_october07
-Kevin