Carphone launch Mobile Auction site.

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Carphone Warehouse has launched a dedicated mobile phone auction site, taking on auction giant eBay.

The new site; mymobileauction.com will allow customers to list there phone in a similar way to as they would on eBay, but in the hope that the potential customers will only be looking for phones rather than everything else under the sun.

http://www.mymobileauction.com/Default.aspx

heyho_3

hmm not very good deals, most of them are more expensive than their shop..

And a virgin sim with £5 of credit for £4.95 plus £4.95 for p&p its taking the mick!!!

callmybill

O2 sim card £12.85 + £7 p&p !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A site to avoid me thinks!

Same sim card on Ebay £0.01 - £0.99

the_tired_one

So who are the sellers? Always CPW or can private buyers list auctions?

RIP OFF btw!

mulerider

Will never replace Ebay..........there is no way I'd buy from that site, no feedback!

Premier_2

mulerider wrote:

Will never replace Ebay..........there is no way I'd buy from that site, no feedback!

Feedback isn't all that great anyway is it when you can buy it for a penny a hit?

Anyway, the site does indeed have a feedback facility...just as it is new, no one yet has sold anything so no one has any feedback apart from cpw themselves who not surprisingly has 100% feedback! (appears to be made up! :rolleyes: )

the_tired_one wrote:

So who are the sellers? Always CPW or can private buyers list auctions?

Looks like CPW have quite a few items listed to make the site interesting, but I think it is primarily aimed at private sellers who appear to be slowly adding their stuff.

There's a check to ensure no blacklisted phones are allowed, which is at least an improvment over eBay.

heyho_3

callmybill wrote:

O2 sim card £12.85 + £7 p&p !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A site to avoid me thinks!

Same sim card on Ebay £0.01 - £0.99

I agree!! the auction at the crapphoneripoffwarehouse.com

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callmybill wrote:

O2 sim card £12.85 + £7 p&p !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A site to avoid me thinks!

Same sim card on Ebay £0.01 - £0.99

That doesn't seem to be there anymore

There are some much cheaper offerings in the Accessories section

Not as cheap as this site though! :rotfl:

djhworld

This is possibly the worst idea I've heard all week.

What a waste of time, I bet Dunstone was behind this one. From a business perspective he's just flushing money down the pan.

eBay may have its share of problems, but I doubt anything can really compete with it. The only thing that comes close is Amazon Marketplace.

mulerider

Premier wrote:

Feedback isn't all that great anyway is it when you can buy it for a penny a hit?

Anyway, the site does indeed have a feedback facility...just as it is new, no one yet has sold anything so no one has any feedback apart from cpw themselves who not surprisingly has 100% feedback! (appears to be made up! :rolleyes: )

Looks like CPW have quite a few items listed to make the site interesting, but I think it is primarily aimed at private sellers who appear to be slowly adding their stuff.

There's a check to ensure no blacklisted phones are allowed, which is at least an improvment over eBay.

This reminds me of MSN launching a search engine trying to compete against GOOGLE, this site will never take off like Ebay. Just because the mobiles are on the site are checked to see if they are stolen doesn't guarantee the phone will be as described or that the seller will actually post the item.

The site is a move in the right direction.

Premier_2

Just looked at the site using the link http://www.mymobileauction.com/ to see how it was progressing and got this:

The site is down for testing and maintenance throughout the weekend. We are sorry for the inconvenience caused.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it's not the weekend yet is it?

Edit: ... but you can still get access to the entire site here:

http://www.mymobileauction.com/realsite//Default.aspx