vB auction?
 

I would like to see an auction that could be incorporated into the site - where a user could post something up for bid, and other users could bid on it.

Would like to see a way to let unregistered guests bid too, but you must be a registered member to put something up for auction.

As for payment options, i dont know, my brain spins - but if a user could somehow tie their paypal account to their username that would be pretty cool.

Yes, i know we can always use ebay, but it would be nice to have something right on the site, and users wouldnt get distracted by all the other things available at ebay...

i think the vB trader might do this, take a look at the EvB site :)

What is EvB?

either vB trader or that new Photopost Classifieds.

www.everythigvb.com www.photoshop.com

hmmm... Im looking for something similar to http://www.Ebay.com as well as http://www.nintari.net

Similar to this hack - yet with comments after the sale as well as a default list of items
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=52188

Look no further: http://www.vbauction.com/

I'm definetly looking for something alike as well; but vbauction is a bit on the expensive side... is there a free alternative?

anybody tried it? looks quite promising. $120 isn't outrageous but not free either...

I don't think I have that much sitting around; if it was like 50 or 60 I would've considered; but 120... I'll pass... After all, we're purchasing an addon; not a new license.

It really isn't cheap, but you can't compare it with a new license!

Jelsoft can keep there price so low, because they have so many customers. For a custom piece of coding, prices can also go as high as this, simply because that's the price for the amount of work that's behind it.
Or would you work for 3$ an hour?

tend to agree. the only variable now is the quality of the software. i tried googling vbauction and found zero reference to it. vbauction.com was registered 2 weeks ago and pbjunkie.com was started in march. so very little history behind the software.

unfortunately, there is a zero refund policy. otherwise i wouldn't mind trying it out and let everybody know. now i am not sure if i should risk US$120...

:ermm:

vbAuction uses ultimate auction for the backend. Feel free to stop in and there's plenty of reference to it.

www.ultimateauction.net

You are correct. You are purchasing an addon but you might want to look at the features before you pass. Since the backend is ultimateauction ($300-400) I think the quality of the package and the testing that has went into it to make sure you get a bug free addon is well worth the $120 price tag. :)

I agree with this. For one of my sites, I spent about $140 for a user registration/billing script that was well worth it. If you have a large site where an auction may be a popular feature, $120 can more than pay for itself if you decide to charge like eBay does.

You can view the VB Trader at www.ozezyhosting.com .... its cheaper then the vbauction ;)

thanks for helping out pbjunkie.

so vbauction is a php frontend to ultimateauction's perl backend?

Yes. It has been all packaged together and named vbAuction. :)

The reason I went with vbauction is because the backend is "tried and true", it integrates with the post-bit which allows you to get rid of the feedback forum for B/S/T forums. It even permits the member to enter feedback from the B/S/T forums, not just auctions.

Last but not least, show me a package with these features: http://www.vbauction.com/featurelist.html

trafix, where can I find more info about VB Trader? I went to evb and found only posts about it, but I would like to see a website with more info. Can you please post a link to it? Thanks.

oh, and
Yes, I would... I'm guessing you're not the WHT type :)

i tried the demo and it lists all the charges as a bill and have the seller pay afterwards. can it charge the seller upfront for the auction fee?

Absolutely! You can edit this in the auction charges section of vbAuction.

Is that a good thing? :ninja:

I don't mind helping out other people for free or for small fees, but there are also people that live off this (Not saying that's the case here...)
What I want to say is that people underestimate the amount of work that goes into something like this.

<a href="https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=67672" target="_blank">https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=67672</a>
That's something I'm working on. By the time I'm done with it, I would like to make it free with optional donation. I guess what I want to say is that I'm used to cheap labour, and I guess it may be too much to be expecting the same from the others...

Cheers.

can i have different charge schedules for different categories? eg. free for books and 1% for cars, etc.

Yes you can set that up in the admin configuration.

whats the max length of time that a person can list an item? and is there a buy it now button?

It goes up to 10 days with the option to automatically re-list 1- 10 times or until sold. Yes, it has a buy now option. There is a buy now option on one of the items at my site: www.pbjunkie.com if you would like to see an example.

can you also set it to where a user must have a certain number of posts to be able to use the auction?? that way people aren't just signing up for scamming. and what about protecting against multiple user names. Looks like the software is pretty new, are you in anyway affiliated with the company?

The software has been around for several years (ultimateauction) so in that aspect it's not new. The integration into vbulletin is new which does not limit members to a certain amount of posts, but there is a black list feature in the user options section where you can prevent users from listing and bidding on items. This feature would cover your privileges and scamming.

I?m only affiliated with the company as a tester of the package and obviously a customer. :)

Could you please be more specific about where people can view VBTrader?

Thanks

Matt

Which version(s) of vB are supported?

I am looking at this but I don't think I will be an early adopter at that price. Maybe if it gets some good feedback from other users.

Regards,

Matt

i was trying to look for feedbacks online. it appears UA has been around since 2001 if not earlier. however, surprisingly there is very little information on it. there are only some short reviews from last year. besides that, there isn't anything at all!

it appears the install base of UA is either not very big or they are very quiet. perhaps the owner should consider setting up a user support forum. a user support forum is the best way to communicate and connect with current and potential customer, just look at vbulletin.com/org!

It looks like there is a forum in the Owner's section - it just isn't a public support forum :(

Regards,

Matt

For those interested in the VB Trader you can find the new support forums at www.ozezyhosting.com .... the old support forums at www.petnshow.com

or www.everythingvb.com

PM me if you want more info

Sorry, I missed this question. Currently supported 3.0.1 and up. I will find out if there are plans to support earlier versions.

Hmmm vbtrader isnt finished yet (search function not working) and vbauction looks to still be in beta (the support forums are an interesting read, 2 people have posted and both cant get it to work). Out of the two though vbauction does look the better one, but with out a test site (and the pbjunkie site looking terrible in places) i am leaning towards vbtrader at the moment, but with everythingvb closed finding more out about it is proving hard

where does it look terrible in places? I know there's a few screen's where the color isn't perfect but that's my fault. I'm in the process of learning it and changing it so it reflects my skin.

Other than that, it has worked flawlessly.

pbjunkie, I am interested in this app, but can't stomach paying for it and having it not work out. I've been burned before. I bought a phpbb gallery script from this company called "Albinator", it was very invasive to my database and caused constant bizarre intermittent crashes. The support was a total nightmare to top things off, with them finally saying it's your system not our app. I eventually had to uninstall it and things went back to normal but I was out of pocket for the software as they offered "no refund".

You're going to have to show me more than one site running this before I cough up the cash, and I mean running it integrated with vb3 not as ultimate auction. How invasive is this script to my vb3 database? My site gets hammered with activity so if this script is dodgy then I can't go there. Also, i see it imports users from the db, but if it shares the same db as vbe why do you need to import users to it, and do you have to manually import all new accounts too?

thanks

You need to visit vbauction.com and contact the owner for answers to your questions.

does anyone else know of any other auction scripts for vbulletin besides the one that vbauction.com has to offer?