Yes, I used this site most of the summer both buying and selling and there are no fees at all. You are able to pay with paypal but they do not push you as Ebay does. I've bought from Florida and have sold to Texas, Georgia and other states. This site works very well. Nancy

Hi neilt81, Your idea is interesting. I have been thinking about something similar. I collect and deal in Insurance Ephemera, especially insurance policies etc. For a long time I have been dealing through e-bay, but what I was missing is my own space where I could put items on display, not necessarily for immediate sale. This implies having and supporting another website of my own - not so great as I have no idea in website building. Another issue is the difficulty to access some of the dealers in antiquities. I frequently go to antique fairs, but, as youy can guess, I can cover only those close to my home. Therefore, I miss potential finds elsewhere, and that is because most of the dealers have no sites. And when they do have, it is difficult to find them. ANd when I find them - then there is a question of honesty, trust, payment, postage and all that. I am sure many collectors can say it is frustrating. What you are suggesting is good. Maybe you can gather some ideas from the site I have been using: www.mythings.com I list there my collection but also items for sale. There is no option of selling through this site, but there is a very valuable (to me) option taht they have announced to be coming soon - the portfolio that I have there, will be directly connected to e-bay. That means that you can have a stock of your items on Mythings and you can send them automatically to ebay for sale. Before I started using them I actually talked to their developing team (they are in London), nice lads. With your idea, I suggest you talking to them, because I can see that your idea can work very well with their already existing platform, and you will get the traffic of their site! :) If you go there, make sure you pop into my portfolio, my screen name there is Jacob. All best Jacob. Here is a link that might be useful: For your info

I thought it was prohibited to advertise your own business on these forums. Since you are from Canada and the business your advocating is in Canada............. You may furnish monthly freebies to those who join your mailing list, all of the Clipart on your site if for sale only. Kind of a sneeky way to advertise yourself isn't it? jmoo jb

chemocurl - I have never heard of Bid Assistant. I will have to check it out. I just noticed it this weekend. It appeared as a link on my page on the items being watched. It wasn't until after I bought 2 items this weekend, that I went and looked at the form. I assumed it would only allow you to bid one amount for any/all of them...but it wasn't. It allowed you to put in a max amount for each watched item. Like I asked b4...I wonder if it might bid after the snipers. Also say something is going for $1.99 and you want to get it as cheap as possible. But you know it is worth $9.99. If you put that amount in and there is a bidding frenzy it will drive it up to your Max. I swear there are kids out there who do that just for fun to see what your Max Bid is. If you had waited till the last minute to bid, you might have got it cheaper. I really doubt if there are folks who bid them up...just for fun. They 'might' get stuck winning things if they did. I have used Max Bid in the past. The problem with that is unless you are around, someone can beat your Max Bid by 50 cents or a dollar. And you kick yourself because you would have paid that extra 50 cents or a dollar to win it. But who know what the winners max bid might have been. It might have been $5, $10, or $50 dollars above your max bid. One just never knows. I just put in the max I am willing to pay and let it ride...occasionally even upping it another time. 99.9 times out of a 100, it isn't anything I have to have and there will be another one come along b4 too long. I think I'm gonna go and try for a steal deal with bid assistant now. Here is a link that might be useful: I won today at $12 below my max bid-Woohoo!