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stormwarning · Two Stroke Sniffer Joined: 04 Jan 2005 Karma :

Hi All, ( This is already in the "expand and fart" section but I thought I'd catch all of you in here. And, I've added a BCF banner on the site)

I've just re-registered as I was "bad karma'd" off for mentioning the stuff below too often. So, please bear with me, read the stuff below and make up your own minds. I notice someone posted a thread about the site and it didn't receive very favourable reviews. It's not supposed to be ebay, it's just a site designed to help bikers.

So,can you ALL put your stuff on my auction site at https://www.bikebidder.com/index.php There's loads of gear on here at the moment, so it's worth a look.

We're getting around 500 hits a week at the moment (not great, but improving) and I've pledged 10% of our profits to the "adopt-a-racer" scheme.

As we're not getting a lot of gear on there at the moment I'm not able to give any money to them. All I want to do from this is make it successful and give money back to racers.

So, if you lot list yer stuff and sell it I'll donate ALL of the profit from the sales.

I'm not after making money out of this, well, enough to cover the cost of running the site,as Korn does running this site, so rest assured I am not trying to fleece any of you.

Take a look and give it some thought, it'll cost you NOWT to list so you've nothing to lose other than a little time.

Cheers All

Robin

ps please don't rate this as spam as I won't be mentioning it again and I'd like to be able to contribute on other things. Ta.

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Ste · Not Work Safe Joined: 01 Sep 2002 Karma :

In your post in exhange and mart you also put:

G · The Voice of Reason Joined: 02 Feb 2002 Karma :

I'd be careful... this is exactly the sort of thing people won't like.

Also it will probably be gone from the first page within the night unless you actually do start a flame war.

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mrchips · World Chat Champion Joined: 05 Mar 2004 Karma :

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G · The Voice of Reason Joined: 02 Feb 2002 Karma :

I will delete this thread if you want, to stop you accumulating further bad karma.

MarJay · But it's British! Joined: 15 Sep 2003 Karma :

Liono · Spanner Monkey Joined: 22 Jul 2004 Karma :

You say you have been "bad Karma'd" off the site, presumably for spamming the forum with stuff about your site. So the first thing you do upon re-registering is to post a great long thread plugging your site again?

You say you want to be able to contribute other things as well, then do so. 4 out of the 5 posts made on your username relate to your website so it does seem to be the case that your only interest in this forum is to promote your own site.

stormwarning · Two Stroke Sniffer Joined: 04 Jan 2005 Karma :

I'm sorry if I've upset anyone, that wasn't the intention. Sad

I'm just after trying to put something back into bike racing. Very Happy

I'm not trying to take on ebay, that's an impossibility. Wink

I'm not making peoples minds up for them, they can do that. Confused

The site is for bikers to sell and buy and to put money back into biking through the minimal fees charged.

I don't expect to make money myself, so it's not a business I'm advertising.

I know it's a forum and the reasons that we all use it. One of those reasons is to check out what's on offer to us all. If we don't like the post then we don't have to read it, do we?

I'm struggling with this "big brother" ethic on the site. I'm not being offensive and as far as I am concerned this is not "spam". If anyone feels it is then just ignore it, as I do if I read anything that I don't agree with.

I've done the link in the signature thing, and I've added a BCF banner ad to the site, it's a two way thing.

In conclusion: I have put this in two places on this site and thats it. I won't earn money from the site and hopefully, some racers may have a better season because of it. So, rather than using your finger to rate the post, use it to close it and open another one because others may want to see it if you don't

Respectfully yours

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stormwarning · Two Stroke Sniffer Joined: 04 Jan 2005 Karma :

If you actually read the post through you'd see that all the profit is going to "adopt-a-racer".

It would be nice if it could be a "pot of gold" and the only way that'll happen is if people list stuff.

Look, it's NOT a commercial venture, I never expected to earn from it. As a racer I'm always looking at ways to get money into club racing. I've spent a fair amount of my own money getting this up and running and, as sad as it is, just want it to be a success for the reasons I've already mentioned.

What you could do, would be to give it a go, it may actually work for you, and as I said it costs NOTHING.

Once again, respectfully yours

gsxrboy · Scooby Slapper Joined: 29 Jun 2004 Karma :

Well I think your site looks real nice although very little to buy..... I would love to be able to go back a few years and see what ebay looked like at the beginning Embarassed

pretty poor I imagine.

As a failed Ebuisness owner my opinion may carry little weight but the key is advertising.......and with a venture like yours you would need to be spending a couple of grand a month minimum to make it happen initially and a shed load more later on. Google adwords are a damn good start point.
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stormwarning · Two Stroke Sniffer Joined: 04 Jan 2005 Karma :

Cheers m8, it's nice to get a bit of constructive criticism.

If you see the thread in the E&M section you'll see that I've tried with advertising on a large scale, and I also advertised on the IOM during TT fortnight.

This is one of the reasons I put it on here, and other forums.

It's whole point is to help bikers sell and buy gear at very little cost and to put the profit back into club racing.

In essence, if all those on forums listed their stuff it would be a very busy auction site.

So give it a go. Spend time constructively rather than slagging me off Crying or Very sad

Ste · Not Work Safe Joined: 01 Sep 2002 Karma :

Spend time constructively instead of spamming forums multiple times. Thumbs Up

Visitor Q · $25 whore Joined: 30 Apr 2004 Karma :

haha eejit.

Altho in his defence he does have A bcf logo. Its in the top right, bad quality, unclear as to what it links and came up once in 30 refreshes.

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stormwarning · Two Stroke Sniffer Joined: 04 Jan 2005 Karma :

Ok then Ste, we're not going to agree on this, are we? I don't why you're so vehemently against this.

Why do you keep banging on about "spam"? I've told you why I'm doing it, and it's not doing you any harm, is it?

If you don't like it, just look elsewhere, others may want to use it, especially if there's any racers using this forum.

I said earlier, I am only going to mention this now so everyone can take a gander and make up their own minds, which is the point of a forum, is it not?

Respectfully yours

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Sparks! · Sir Tart-a-lot Joined: 30 Aug 2003 Karma :

I don't think his inital post was really spam, it is of use to us as it is something we may well use. It's well placed spam anyway, as in, to the right audience and right area.

I think storm, the reason people are getting pissed off is because you KEEP posting it and mentioning it, for the sake of not losing a load of potential "customers" I suggest you have this thread deleted, and DONT post any more adverts, a link on the links section, the single post in E&M, a link in your signature will suffice and do a BETTER job than what you are doing at the moment.

Also, PM Korn to ask for a proper forum banner, he will be glad to give you a copy of the sites banner for you to change the poor quality logo you currently have.
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stormwarning · Two Stroke Sniffer Joined: 04 Jan 2005 Karma :

Fairly put Yams. The witch-hunt is now over so please extinguish your flaming torches. Shocked

Sparks! · Sir Tart-a-lot Joined: 30 Aug 2003 Karma :

Bendy · Mrs Sensible Joined: 10 Jun 2002 Karma :

It is free to list.

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stormwarning · Two Stroke Sniffer Joined: 04 Jan 2005 Karma :

Cheers Yams and point taken.

It is free to list with four photos included, and you could win a mini-moto just for registering. Wink

It's not as sophisticated as e-bay so don't expect it to be all singing and all dancing. It is practical and the listings are well laid out.

Thanks to everyone who's thrown in their 2pen'orth on this.

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Visitor Q · $25 whore Joined: 30 Apr 2004 Karma :

How many registered users do you have atm? And more importantly when do you draw for the mini moto Very Happy

Ok ill change my tune, you seem qutie genuine. Ive signed up and bid on a couple of bits on an rgv, minimum bid atm but well see.
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