Buy & Sell As MiniatureBids.com Launches On Saturday!
September 19, 2013 by brennon
Miniaturebids.com (the site isn't live yet) will be going live this Saturday and it looks like it could be an ace place to buy and sell your miniatures while avoiding the perils of Ebay.
What do the minds behind it say?
"Miniature Bids is a new website launching this Saturday designed to allow you to auction off your unwanted table top gaming stuff FREE; no listing fees and no final selling price fees.
So fed up with the madness that is Ebay fees (and the latest changes to them!) we decided enough was enough and set about creating a free auctions site just for the table top gaming hobby.
You will be able to create auctions and bid on others free of charge. You can sell and buy anything that falls under the ‘table top hobby’ umbrella from wargames models to RPG books from board games to dice games. We will have a category for it all. And if we don’t have a category but there is demand for it, we will create it!
Miniaturebids.com will be 100% free to post actions and buy stuff forever. Well, except for the PayPal fees but no matter what payment gateway we use there will be fees. As we use PayPal to manage the payments, both the buyer and the seller are protected by PayPals buyer and seller protection. You can even list your items on a '14 day Buy it Now' type item."
The site is looking to retain this free of charge take on selling and buying miniatures by allowing advertising on the site as well as a subscription service for those looking to add more flourish to their sales and get things featured for example.
This scheme does seem to have got a lot of attention over the past few weeks and it could be a nice way to collate the tabletop gaming world in one place for all to use.
What do you think?
Sounds interesting, might finally get round to getting rid of some of my unwanted stuff. Wonder if some minis companies already on ebay would want to move to this site if it’s free?
Awesome stuff, sold a lot of stuff on eBay recently, with the arrival of the little one at the start of the year I only have limited time to do hobby activities, so having loads sat around whilst we are skint seemed stupid! The sales were good but the £50 eBay are going to take off me isn’t so good. If everybody gets onboard with this it can only be a success, it’s just making sure the gaming community know about it an embrace it.
i can see this extending beyond just a selling site to a way to expand the community possibly… but thats getting ahead of things! sounds like a great idea and i’m on board with it
Interesting! When I first saw it I had several questions, but they’ve answered all of them already. Very tidy.
As someone with an ebay store and seeing the changes they’ve made this is really appealing and worth a try as their fees are ever more gouging to someone with a relatively small output such as myself – however it will be some time before it gets anywhere near the kind of traffic ebay does. I wouldn’t mind if they added a store function similar to ebay and I wouldn’t even mind paying a bit for it per month in order to have a buy it now option – that would make it far more appealing to me, but who… Read more »
Looks interesting! If enough people do migrate over there it might be a good venue!
Good idea, bring on the launch.
I’ve seen specialists auction sites before. How will this one survive where others have faded?
I dropped over 10 grand in eBay/Paypal fees in 2012, Black Lotus MTG cards are paying for my wedding this year… and I have boxloads of my old 40k OOP metals (most still in packaging) yet to unload, so you can be sure I’ll be checking this new site out.
Very good to know, really interesting site they’ve created. E-Bay is going to lose bundle if this goes through, miniature selling/buying is a nice market.
Hope all works fien for them, going to share it in my local forum…
I’m all over this,I love it!!,