Comments on: QXL closes site & withdraws from UK http://tamebay.com/2008/05/qxl-closes-site-withdraws-from-uk.html eBay & ecommerce made easy Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:10:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Josordoni http://tamebay.com/2008/05/qxl-closes-site-withdraws-from-uk.html#comment-34514 Josordoni Wed, 07 May 2008 19:43:28 +0000 http://www.tamebay.com/?p=2679#comment-34514 I must have read it somewhere ages ago.. I have always called it quicksell... oh, and while we are at it - I presume it IS tame-bay and not Tam - ebay? If the latter, what the 'eck is the tam for LOL and if the former, who told you you could tame them!!! I must have read it somewhere ages ago.. I have always called it quicksell…

oh, and while we are at it – I presume it IS tame-bay and not Tam – ebay? If the latter, what the ‘eck is the tam for LOL and if the former, who told you you could tame them!!!

]]> By: Gill http://tamebay.com/2008/05/qxl-closes-site-withdraws-from-uk.html#comment-34513 Gill Wed, 07 May 2008 18:54:19 +0000 http://www.tamebay.com/?p=2679#comment-34513 I always thought that too, Sue - oops! :mrgreen: I always thought that too, Sue – oops! :mrgreen:

]]> By: Sue Bailey http://tamebay.com/2008/05/qxl-closes-site-withdraws-from-uk.html#comment-34508 Sue Bailey Wed, 07 May 2008 13:18:46 +0000 http://www.tamebay.com/?p=2679#comment-34508 Well I never knew this... <a href="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/05/07/so_farewell_then_qxl_its_been_11_years_but_someone_bought_you.html" rel="nofollow">according to The Guardian</a>, the website I thought was called "Queue Ex Ell" is really called "Quick Sell" :lol: Well I never knew this… according to The Guardian, the website I thought was called “Queue Ex Ell” is really called “Quick Sell” :lol:

]]> By: Eddie StClare http://tamebay.com/2008/05/qxl-closes-site-withdraws-from-uk.html#comment-34506 Eddie StClare Wed, 07 May 2008 10:45:16 +0000 http://www.tamebay.com/?p=2679#comment-34506 Nostalgia is a marvleous thing Northy, even I remember the day when the Paypal exchange rate was 1 USD = 1 GBP (or near enuff) :grin: Nostalgia is a marvleous thing Northy, even I remember the day when the Paypal exchange rate was 1 USD = 1 GBP (or near enuff) :grin:

]]> By: northumbrian http://tamebay.com/2008/05/qxl-closes-site-withdraws-from-uk.html#comment-34502 northumbrian Wed, 07 May 2008 09:19:58 +0000 http://www.tamebay.com/?p=2679#comment-34502 I also remembered that ebay uk once credited our account £200 rather than £20 for some freebie upgrades and wrote it off as their error AH those were the DAYS I also remembered that ebay uk once credited our account
£200 rather than £20 for some freebie upgrades

and wrote it off as their error

AH those were the DAYS

]]> By: northumbrian http://tamebay.com/2008/05/qxl-closes-site-withdraws-from-uk.html#comment-34501 northumbrian Wed, 07 May 2008 09:16:21 +0000 http://www.tamebay.com/?p=2679#comment-34501 I remember when we used to be needed to qxl would email us regularly with tempters and offers and ebay uk would offer free listing enhancements and upgrades, [so the level playing field has never really existed] I remember when we used to be needed to

qxl would email us regularly with tempters and offers

and ebay uk would offer free listing enhancements and upgrades,
[so the level playing field has never really existed]

]]> By: vzaar Jamie http://tamebay.com/2008/05/qxl-closes-site-withdraws-from-uk.html#comment-34500 vzaar Jamie Wed, 07 May 2008 08:34:38 +0000 http://www.tamebay.com/?p=2679#comment-34500 So they have finally bitten the dust here in the UK! What a fight we had back in the early days! All good fun as I'd actively try and poach sellers from QXL and bring them on to eBay with the promise of a truly global customer base. Great days. I remember meeting my rival in the Sports Category at some swanky awards do and she snubbed me. So they have finally bitten the dust here in the UK! What a fight we had back in the early days! All good fun as I’d actively try and poach sellers from QXL and bring them on to eBay with the promise of a truly global customer base.

Great days. I remember meeting my rival in the Sports Category at some swanky awards do and she snubbed me.

]]> By: Uncle Sam http://tamebay.com/2008/05/qxl-closes-site-withdraws-from-uk.html#comment-34499 Uncle Sam Wed, 07 May 2008 08:33:54 +0000 http://www.tamebay.com/?p=2679#comment-34499 We listed a few things on there back in '02 or '03 due to a free listings promo. Didn't sell much, though. The main thing I remember is they brought in a very curious listing format for expensive items where they would go for the lowest unrepeated bid. Buyers could bid anything within a fixed range (eg any amount between £100 & £1,000) but if 2 or more people bid £101, for instance, then their bids cancelled each other out. But if someone bid, say, £102 & no-one else did, then they'd win it for £102. The catch was it cost money to bid, so people could spend a fortune by bidding 20 or so times for the same item & still not win it. Seemed like a curious mix of online auctions & gambling imho. We listed a few things on there back in ’02 or ’03 due to a free listings promo. Didn’t sell much, though.

The main thing I remember is they brought in a very curious listing format for expensive items where they would go for the lowest unrepeated bid. Buyers could bid anything within a fixed range (eg any amount between £100 & £1,000) but if 2 or more people bid £101, for instance, then their bids cancelled each other out. But if someone bid, say, £102 & no-one else did, then they’d win it for £102. The catch was it cost money to bid, so people could spend a fortune by bidding 20 or so times for the same item & still not win it. Seemed like a curious mix of online auctions & gambling imho.

]]> By: Mark Classic http://tamebay.com/2008/05/qxl-closes-site-withdraws-from-uk.html#comment-34493 Mark Classic Tue, 06 May 2008 17:43:43 +0000 http://www.tamebay.com/?p=2679#comment-34493 But you do not have to be popular with the core small time sellers Dan... Or do you? :-) Mark But you do not have to be popular with the core small time sellers Dan…

Or do you?

:-)

Mark

]]> By: Dan Wilson http://tamebay.com/2008/05/qxl-closes-site-withdraws-from-uk.html#comment-34492 Dan Wilson Tue, 06 May 2008 16:41:39 +0000 http://www.tamebay.com/?p=2679#comment-34492 "never been a serious contender to eBay in the UK" Didn't seem like that back in 1999/2000, when eBay was the new kid on the block and QXL were getting all the advertising on the Tube and PR coverage and pretty good traction. I think there are two reasons QXL failed: they didn't have America and they muddied the water. QXL did actually sell stuff itself and, I believe, offer bulk discounts and deals to big retailers which wasn't popular with those core small time sellers. It's interesting to view the buy.com deal in that light. “never been a serious contender to eBay in the UK”

Didn’t seem like that back in 1999/2000, when eBay was the new kid on the block and QXL were getting all the advertising on the Tube and PR coverage and pretty good traction.

I think there are two reasons QXL failed: they didn’t have America and they muddied the water. QXL did actually sell stuff itself and, I believe, offer bulk discounts and deals to big retailers which wasn’t popular with those core small time sellers.

It’s interesting to view the buy.com deal in that light.

]]> By: whirly http://tamebay.com/2008/05/qxl-closes-site-withdraws-from-uk.html#comment-34490 whirly Tue, 06 May 2008 16:02:55 +0000 http://www.tamebay.com/?p=2679#comment-34490 Never heard of Cqout until today :grin: Never heard of Cqout until today :grin:

]]> By: Sue Bailey http://tamebay.com/2008/05/qxl-closes-site-withdraws-from-uk.html#comment-34489 Sue Bailey Tue, 06 May 2008 15:57:22 +0000 http://www.tamebay.com/?p=2679#comment-34489 :-( I've only ever sold one thing on QXL... a pair of jeans to a NPB with an invalid email address. :-( I’ve only ever sold one thing on QXL… a pair of jeans to a NPB with an invalid email address.

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