MyBST - Online Marketplace
Added: (Mon Jul 23 2007)
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MyBST is an online marketplace which brings users from around the world together to buy, sell and trade items.
MyBST is completely different from your typical online auction site where users bid for items that are listed from sellers, actually MyBST isn�t even an auction site. On MyBST there are three main techniques in which you can use to list your item, these are Cash Offer, Trade Offer and Instant Buy. Below I have explained what each of these do:
Cash Offer
The seller lists there item for free on MyBST, and users interested in this item can submit cash offers to the seller which they can accept or decline. On acceptance of a cash offer the item is ended and the user who submitted the offer wins the item at the cash offer price they offered.
What I really like about this is there are no bidding wars, in my opinion bidding is out of fashion, the majority of people don�t want to wait for days only to realise they were outbid at the last moment. Not to mention all the downfalls of bidding, like shill bidding where friends bid together to drive other bidders away and they then retract there bids near the end, so one friend wins the item at a good price.
Trade Offer
Users list items on MyBST which they would like to trade (swap) with other members items. You can wait for users to make you offers, or you can actively look for items and make trade offers yourself. When someone offers you a trade offer, you can review what they are offering, the details of the trade, its then up to you to accept or decline, on acceptance both items are ended and you trade with the other user.
What I really like about the trade offer system is that I have already traded a few of my unwanted DVDs for ones I wanted and I also traded my Xbox 360 game spiderman for gears of war which was what I really wanted. Thanks MyBST you just saved me �40.
Instant Buy
Seller lists items with an instant buy price, and user can purchase the item straight away.
What I found even better is that you can list one item using all three techniques, Cash Offer, Trade Offer and Instant Buy, this is particularly useful if you don�t really mind what you want to do with your item, you may be happy to sell and listen to offers, but you may also be happy to listen to trade offers.
Other Benefits
What I found even better is that you can list one item using all three techniques, Cash Offer, Trade Offer and Instant Buy, this is particularly useful if you don�t really mind what you want to do with your item, you may be happy to sell at a instant buy price and listen to cash offers, but you may also be happy to listen to trade offers for your item.
I like how you can list your items with homepage or category featured but you never pay for a featured fee unless your item sells or trades. This makes a huge difference, I never did think it was fair on other sites when I listed an item with a feature which I HAD to pay, only to find the item did not sell anyway. Also you can list more than one picture, and like homepage and category you only pay for the extra pictures if your item sells or trades.
As MyBST is worldwide you would think it would be hard to find items that are available to you from people in your own country. I couldn�t be more wrong, the search filters in the categories are amazing, you can view what kind of items you want to view, it may only be Cash Offer items you want to view, or Trade Offers, or even Instant Buy items, or all. You can select what countries you want to view items that are available to you from. It really works well.
To list items costs absolutely nothing, you only pay a small 4% of the final sale price if your item sells and if you trade an item there is a small flat fee for this.
The customer support was really good, I did not get an automated message when I emailed them for assistance regarding my registration. They emailed me back within twenty minutes with an answer to my question.
I highly recommend you try out this site today. You wont regret it.
www.mybst.com