I have supported the site for as long as I could but just before Christmas 2007 they changed and increased there fees and never contacted anyone about it until lots of members started complaining about it on the forum.
They say the new fees and limits are to help reduce listings of the same items.

All tazbar needed to do is make some software changes like other sites have done that automatically remove multi listings of the same item and close listings if you don’t login after a set time etc.
Charging high fees and reducing listings is not the way forward.

I would love tazbar to succeed but I can’t keep paying tazbar more and more if I don’t get any sales its like paying for air, Buyers want choice not just 2 items in each category, think about software changes and not fee increases and i will come back.

You can set up an auction site these days for less than a grand (considerably less, if you’re not so feature-picky). And to make money yourself, you only need to attract sellers, because there is a large and growing group of sellers who 1) don’t need to actually make money, they just like selling, and 2) hate eBay with a passion. Those people will pay you minimal fees, and if they sell some things, they’re happy.

These people will *flock* to an anti-eBay banner. And not only that, but they’ll then do all your marketing for you, by promoting the fact that their site isn’t eBay. They recruit more sellers, and then all those sellers sell to each other.

You’re never going to out-eBay eBay like that, but that’s okay, because you’re not trying to: you’re trying to capture the niche market of “people who hate eBay but still want to sell in online marketplaces”. eBid and Tazbar aren’t competing with eBay: they’re only competing with each other. Personally I find the negative marketing uncomfortable, but plenty of other people seem to find it more than acceptable.

JMO, obviously.