Need to develop Auction platform

[Soofi]

Need to develop an Auction Platform for selling Domain names & web site.

Domain name auction platform reference can be taken from this link: Active Auctions - Sedo.com

Website auction platform can be similar.. with one or two added options. The most important part of this platform is buyer & seller verification, so that we develop a secure platform .

The site is Domain name and Web site AfterMarket Journal.. |  where I need this auction platform integrated and auction platform will be using the user interface of Vbulletin forum we have installed at the following link: Aftermarket Journal Discussion Forum - Powered by vBulletin so that we can have only one registration & login id. Once user has registered with the forum, they can perform extra steps to verify themselves to be able to use auction platform.

Let me know your thoughts and inexpensive quote... Budget is within $100-$1000.. completion timeframe should not be more then 1 month.

 

[el_paon]

PM sent.

 

[Soofi]

PM sent.

sorry but I ain't accepting expensive bids, I already have a bid pending on $650 from my personal developer. So anything less then that will be more feasible!!

I'm not a noob sitting here, so bid sensibly along wit your portfolio link.

Thanks, Jay

 

[el_paon]

sorry but I ain't accepting expensive bids, I already have a bid pending on $650 from my personal developer. So anything less then that will be more feasible!!

I'm not a noob sitting here, so bid sensibly along wit your portfolio link.

Thanks, Jay

My bid was within the budget you specified.

 

[Soofi]

My bid was within the budget you specified.

without portfolio? Thanks for your time!
And I never stated that I will accept just any bid placed within my specified budget range..

 

[el_paon]

Maybe if you asked, I would have sent it, anyway consider my bid retracted.

without portfolio? Thanks for your time!
And I never stated that I will expect just any bid placed within my specified budget range..

 

[psalzmann]

PM sent..

 

[psalzmann]

And I still dont see any links from you referring to your previous work :p

BTW, some of my customers can be seen on Fox News. Here is a reference: DMS. These folks are running a highly customized version of ILance Reverse Auction where purchasers request services or products and bidders bid their best lowest bid proposal. The winner is chosen by the purchaser before or after the Reverse Auction listing has ended.

This is however for the Reverse Auction side of the product. You can disable this atmosphere and choose Forward Auction instead (and/or have both Reverse Auction and Forward Auction engaged Simultaneously). In a Forward Auction environment, Sellers list their items (in your case, Domain Names or Portfolios) and bidders place their bid in competition with other bidders.

As the Admin you are able to fully customize the category system switching certain features on or off, for example - Proxy Bidding with Bid Increments, Blind Bidding Privacy and so forth (by so forth, I'm refering to activating or deactivating Bid Sniping, Insertion Fees, Final Value Fees).

There is also powerful SEO (search engine optimization) control. This allows you to inject special meta keywords and descriptions on a per-category basis so Google and other popular search engines find your members listings quicker, without guesswork and certainly without you forking out thousands on SEO-Development. ILance does it all.

I think what really sets ILance apart from anything else available is the way we provide the software to let you customize things you need most like Bid Fields (maybe Web Design category has questions like "Do you need a logo also? Yes/No") or another category such as Domain Names - "Length of Registration - 5 years" .. and nothing is hardcoded meaning you don't have to fork out any more money to have your bidding and listing interface templates changed. You can do it yourself through the use of a nicely designed Interface that shouldn't take you longer than 1 minute to do each category and set it up as you desire.

For what it's worth, running a marketplace / auction "sounds fun" but when you are sitting with software that does only a certain process flow can easily cost you hundreds to thousands to customize or modify. This is why exploring established products is sometimes a good idea at first before spending a good sum on freelancers and/or people who will slice up a few psd templates from Photoshop and hack attack a few SQL queries so the initial "site" looks good to you but is horrible and would never sell to the professional buyer who will be doing business on your site.

To give you an idea, there are well over 70 tables in an ILance powered database holding info from user accounts to bids placed to auctions listed to newsletter subscription normalization (which prevents you from having to mess with cron jobs and other not-so-friendly *nix tools to send bulk mail). ILance offers that as well. Since 2002, I don't think we've missed much. Our customers express their demand and we provide the solution.

As mentioned in the PM we have many customers (from all over the globe) who are using this product on a daily basis and have a tried and tested process to resolve issues so you are not left out of pocket paying programmers for a crappy product. ILance software is the real deal and is fully backed and supported by professional software developers and like-minded business individuals. ILance is a fully registered Incorporated company doing business within Canada since 2000. ILance software version 1.0.0 was sold in 2002... (2 years to put the first release out)..

I look forward to you exploring this product. If you have any questions, comments or concerns please feel free to ask here or send me a PM.

Take care and best of luck with your upcoming project!!

PS - AdminCP URL User/Password is available upon request. PM me.

Peter

 

[Soofi]

Thanks Peter, really nice script done there
However, I'm looking for a customized platform resembling sedo auction and a bit cheaper option..

Cheers!

 

[psalzmann]

Hey not a problem Jay

Best of luck with your project.

-Peter

 

[Electric-Shadow]

Maybe if you asked, I would have sent it, anyway consider my bid retracted.

It doesnt matter if he asked or not for a link to a portfolio or at least samples of previous work MUST be provided regardless of whether or not your bid is within his budget and kindly refrain from arguing in someone elses thread.

 

[Soofi]

Thanks Electric-Shadow for fixing this thread.

Still looking for considerable quotes from experienced developers.. hit me up!! :D

 

[rinkle]

If you are interested in pooling resources, I'm willing to spend more than $1,000 to develop a freelancing reverse auction script that could also be used for your purposes, dont.net, or at least a framework.

I looked at iLance which says it does everything but I cant find anybody with a good site that uses it. I saw a couple with branding and looked terrible with no visitors. When you cant find even one site its not a good sign.

 

[hazzel]

Pm sent..

Hope to hear from you...

 

[Soofi]

If you are interested in pooling resources, I'm willing to spend more than $1,000 to develop a freelancing reverse auction script that could also be used for your purposes, dont.net, or at least a framework.

I looked at iLance which says it does everything but I cant find anybody with a good site that uses it. I saw a couple with branding and looked terrible with no visitors. When you cant find even one site its not a good sign.

I'm not sure about your proposal. Could you please brief me about it through pm?

Thanks, Jay

 

[rinkle]

Yes, I'll send you a PM. I'm probably going to get a freelancer script built and have put together some resources to do it properly.

My comment about ilance was that it looks like that script is toast. Even the site that the guy (owner it seems) says is amazing and appeared on the news is totally empty [do my stuff]. lots of promises about features and options but nobody succeeds. Seen this before and I need to see even small success stories to believe buying any script and specially at that price.

 

[psalzmann]

Yes, I'll send you a PM. I'm probably going to get a freelancer script built and have put together some resources to do it properly.

Good luck. That will cost you way over $50k easily. Don't forget "rinkle" Development is free if your time is worth nothing

My comment about ilance was that it looks like that script is toast.

You find something better I'll back off but you're all talk unfortunately. Show us here a better solution than ILance. You won't find it because it doesn't exist. ILance is a true marketplace solution not some auction script thrown together in hopes to make a quick buck If that was the case we wouldn't be supporting and providing necessary product updates for the past 7 almost 8 years running. The only toast here is your commenting because you have no clue what you're talking about.

Even the site that the guy (owner it seems) says is amazing and appeared on the news is totally empty [do my stuff].

"appeared on news". You talk as if that's a bad thing. The point here is a customer of ILance purchased ILance, promoted their site and landed a few prime time spots in the major news. That's HUGE news but it's certainly old news. If you have something unique, you'll be on the news too. If you show me another solution similar to ILance that put their clients on prime time news I'll eat my words but you won't find one unfortunately. ILance is the real deal and that's why you're here trying to talk crap about it. Ya dig?

For entertainment purposes, here is DoMyStuff on Prime Times News promoting their ILance powered Reverse Auction Site: Give these guys a break they are doing the best they can: YouTube - DoMyStuff.com

lots of promises about features and options but nobody succeeds.

If you want to succeed you need to do that on your own. ILance provides the solution and you market and promote. If you don't promote you don't succeed. It doesn't matter if it's a auction site or a web design firm/hosting firm. The point is if you don't market you will fail PERIOD. Nothing to do with ILance... in fact as you stated above you've seen ILance clients on prime time news. If that's not good enough for you I suggest you get your own solution built and do that yourself because you won't find a more professional solution that caters to both Service and Product auction solutions as ILance does.

What is more rinkle, think about it.. do you think the professionals at CNN or Fox News can't see threw their guests? Do you think that Domystuff just called Fox and hoped to get a prime time news spot? No. They got on because the solution they were promoting (do my stuff) is using ILance Software, and if you knew what ILance does, you'd understand they are promoting Jobs, Work, Products and other related services through DMS using ILance Auction Software... this is a great thing... especially with the past and present recession. ILance is providing jobs not only on ILance powered sites, but if you did a search on google you'd see hundreds of "customers" looking for customization. Where you think ILance fails, you need to look at the "bigger picture". It's not failing, it's a revolutionary offering that provides everything from Services, Products, Jobs, Revenue and let's not forget.. the "coolness factor" of being able to run a powerful site such as ILance on your own web site. The product is almost 8 years old. ILance can also be used on your own site without anything "remotely hosted". You download the product, install to your site and GO GO GO!

Seen this before and I need to see even small success stories to believe buying any script and specially at that price.

ILance is priced to sell. You pay a small price for a complex and complete solution to run your business for well under $1000. ILance has a Starter package which cost $497. If that price is too high then I suggest you save or buy another competing solution because when you have it all you need to do is promote and ILance does everything else for you. In fact, I built ILance with the goal in mind where everything you can enable in terms of a residual income is available to you.... Watch and become educated about ILance, it's your best bet vs. trying to run us into the ground with your lack of educated commenting re: ILance:

Subscription Fee Matrix

• Configure member access plans based on various site permissions and resources
• Set up daily, monthly or yearly plans
• Create bid plans and charge for the usage of X amount of bids

Listing Insertion Fee

• Configure cost specific groups for small to large ticket items
• Set up appropriate fee ranges within groups ( ie: $500 - $1000 item listing = $10 fee)
• Payment required from seller before listing becomes live (optional)

Upsell Listing Enhancement Fee

• Bold listing title
• Highlighted listing
• Featured listing status
• Featured Portfolio status
• Auction auto relist feature
• Slideshow photo gallery
• NEW - Video Description listing (add videos from YouTube to your listings!!)

Final Value Fee ( % or flat rate)
(Configurable through admin marketplace settings)

• Configure cost specific groups for small to large ticket items
• Set up appropriate fee ranges within groups ( ie: $500- $1000 = %10 or $10 fee)
• Payment charged to seller accordingly upon final sale amount

Portfolio Upsell Enhancement Fee

• Give users the ability to pay you to feature their portfolio items

Escrow Service Fee

• Configure fees to charge buyer and/or seller for sending and receiving funds via secure
  escrow.

Profile Verification Fee

• Set up fees for members to pay you to verify their profile credentials (optional)

Provider to Buyer Invoice Fee

• Set up fees for provider generated invoices for ongoing work during awarded service
  auction events

Look, That's just a small amount of ways to earn Revenue through ILance. I will leave the other forms of revenue building to actual customers interested in learning more about ILance.

Simply put, ILance is built to generate my customers money just like you see going on in the bigger sites. But if you knew this you wouldn't be trying to put it down because from your tone you are not upset about anything specific (because you failed to mention anything wrong other than the price which I feel you might not be willing to afford or willing to spend).

So what is your next action? you come to NamePros in the hopes to deter potential customers to ILance? Good luck to you because you'll certainly need it. ILance is the real deal, it speaks for itself and you have full opportunity to review our latest release (few days ago) on the demo site: ILance - Main Menu ...

For other serious people looking to make money on the internet, it's been said before but I'll say it again... the only 3 major forms of Financial Success on the Internet today (residual income not fly by night income) are:

1. Search
2. Traffic
3. Auctions

I'll keep a tight watch on this thread. Don't forget to review our sales thread right here on NamePros.. it shows lots of details about ILance which you may or may not already know... it's in the Scripts for Sale section here at NP.

If anyone is serious about running an Auction Site, let's talk. PM me anytime

Peter from ILance

 

[rinkle]

Peter -

I dont care to pick a fight and what i am saying is just honest opinion. if youre trying to get me to spend a ton of money on your software, its you who should be answering questions and showing proof and not telling us to assume that its amazing because you say so. that is just sales talk.

* It does not take $50,000 to create freelancing software, not even close. Anyone with experience knows this.

* At least what I know I create works. You are asking us to assume ilance works. i have tons of buggy scripts in the php grave yard. I havent seen you list a few ilance sites that does and the only one you promote failed pretty badly.

* an ilance site appearing on the news with tons of press is not a good thing if the site cant sustain any traffic. domystuff dropped really quick after the news. this is one of the many examples that shows that this script works really well?

* Even sites running cheap scripts like kubelance and others show more life and i can name them. they didnt have all the news of domystuff either.

* we are all serious about running our sites. We know the sales talk on the major forms of financial success on the internet. what we do need is proof of concept.

you may have done a lot of work on the script but it doesnt mean it has the same value to the customer. i think ilance is really confusing. i think you put in tons of features but miss on some of the critical basic stuff. i also think there are differences in auction scripts and freelancer scripts but ilance throws them all together in one. to me that is a lot of bloated features and bloated code which also makes for a bloated price. i dont know why you didnt do 2 scripts that did each type of site well.

there are other people now creating freelance software with the success of odesk and others. $200 buys me a decent freelance script that can be customized and be easy for my visitors to understand. i dont know why anyone would spend $497 for your solution and have to brand it with your brand too. and even that is gonna end up costing a lot more money with your per member license fees. i dont think anyone wants to pay for potential dreams.

 

[Soofi]

easy there guys, this thread is closed for now!

enjoy your coming weekend

 

[rinkle]

we are all friends here. thanks for a great thread about options in this area. i will share with you my probable efforts to spend a few thou on developing a freelance only script.

peter is trying to sell himself and that is cool. just keeping focused on answers to the reasonable questions asked. if he can give us answers and information (even company info as i cant find address and phone), maybe he can change our minds. i dont think that will happen but this seems an open place and we can give him the opportunity here or in another thread.

thank you and enjoy your weekend too!!!!