Over the next few weeks and months LiveHaggle Auction will begin to populate the internet. What are the origins of LiveHaggle? Well, you can blame it on my Synagogue. In synagogue we kids would always try to sneak out and hang out in the hallways and play games just to escape the services . With one exception, the part where they auctioned off the service honors. You see, there are certain parts of the services on the high holy days that are honorable traditions to partake in but in limited supply. So as not to favor one member over another they would get auctioned off to the highest bidder (AKA Rich Guys). But nonetheless we always enjoyed this part the most. The auctioning process was a group social event were everyone laughed and chuckled, they ribbed the auction loser, and watched the action unfold from the lectern. The rabbi’s assistant would boom. “Going Once!” “Going Twice!” “Sold!” That is my memory of an auction. I have seen car auction on the speed channel and cattle auctions on youtube and they all have the same social feel to it. Win or lose they are always fun. Online auction for the most part are not fun. They are boring. You bid and then you wait to get an email that you were outbid. that’s the extent of it. If you are lucky you don’t get sniped at the end by some computer script that snaps the auction out from under you. LiveHaggle is like a real auction. you can partake in it even if the items price is out of your league. you can laugh and guffaw with others you can ask questions of the seller. share it on Facebook and participate with friends. and because you can embed it anywhere, it great for so many applications. Remember that motorcycle Jay Leno had signed by all these celebrities and auctioned off for charity? At the end, he auctioned it off at eBay. I phenomenal auction ended as a social dud. Imagine if he could have embedded that charity auction in his own web sit. now THAT is social shopping. At the end I thing the synagogue method is the future and probably the rich guy will still win. But liveHaggle is going to put the fun into online auctions.
Over the next few weeks and months LiveHaggle Auction will begin to populate the internet. What are the origins of LiveHaggle? Well, you can blame it on my Synagogue . In synagogue we kids would always try to sneak out and hang out in the hallways and play games just to escape the services . With one exception, the part where they auctioned off the service honors. You see, there are certain parts of the services on the high holy days that are honorable traditions to partake in but in limited supply. So as not to favor one member over another they would get auctioned off to the highest bidder (AKA Rich Guys). But nonetheless we always enjoyed this part the most. The auctioning process was a group social event were everyone laughed and chuckled, they ribbed the auction loser, and watched the action unfold from the lectern. The rabbi’s assistant would boom. “Going Once!” “Going Twice!” “Sold!” That is my memory of an auction. I have seen car auction on the speed channel and cattle auctions on youtube and they all have the same social feel to it. Win or lose they are always fun. Online auction for the most part are not fun. They are boring. You bid and then you wait to get an email that you were outbid. that’s the extent of it. If you are lucky you don’t get sniped at the end by some computer script that snaps the auction out from under you. LiveHaggle is like a real auction. you can partake in it even if the items price is out of your league. you can laugh and guffaw with others you can ask questions of the seller. share it on Facebook and participate with friends. and because you can embed it anywhere, it great for so many applications. Remember that motorcycle Jay Leno had signed by all these celebrities and auctioned off for charity? At the end, he auctioned it off at eBay. I phenomenal auction ended as a social dud. Imagine if he could have embedded that charity auction in his own web sit. now THAT is social shopping. At the end I thing the synagogue method is the future and probably the rich guy will still win. But liveHaggle is going to put the fun into online auctions.
Remember schlepping out to Blockbuster every time you wanted to watch a movie? They had complete control of the home video market and no company could do anything about it. Except one, NetFlix. They asked; “why go to the video store when the video store can come to you?” They nearly sank the once colossal company in just a few years.
A similar monopoly exists online. Today people have to leave their favorite sites and scour around to find and buy things at places like eBay. StuffBuff has a super simple solution: Bring the marketplace to the people. Sellers and retailers should not have to optimize their site so that people can find them. You already know where your customers are. Electronics consumers are on gadget blogs, Travelers are researching destinations on a review-site, and media lover are on a Facebook Fan page. So bring the deals to them, where people can buy, bid and transact, without ever leaving the site they are on.
StuffBuff Auctions and portable marketplace widgets can be shared by anyone and embedded anywhere. Bringing the Right Stuff, to The Right People, at The Right Time.
It has been 15 years “eCommerce-version-1.0”! You had your time; your days are numbered.
Remember going to Blockbuster Video? They had control of the home video market. Then one company, NetFlix, wondered; why go to the video store when the video store can come to you? Today people leave their favorite sites to buy things at places like eBay, StuffBuff is bringing the marketplaces to the people. StuffBuff Auctions can be shared by anyone and embedded anywhere. Bringing the Right Stuff, to The Right People, at The Right Time.
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