New on-line marketplace founded in the UK: Market Tree - Auction Forum Chat

MarketTree

Plucky challenger
We are a Yorkshire-based high-tech E-commerce start-up company, and we are launching our on-line service to challenge eBay in the UK.

http://MarketTree.co.uk is the new web site for buying and selling goods and services between individuals and/or businesses by fixed-price and auction transactions.

Our mission is to be the UK’s best electronic exchange for buying and selling goods and services by providing an effective, low-cost, simple-to-use marketplace for consumers, individual traders, and businesses.

The company’s service provides an alternative marketplace for those suffering from eBay’s high charges and the fear of de-registration without adequate explanation.

David and Goliath
What hope can a new challenger have against the established giant? Our new, nimble upstart offers innovations to improve both buyers’ and sellers’ experience of on-line trading which differentiate us from eBay.

Our main innovations are:

* a “no surprises” pricing policy (so that all prices for delivered items include the cheapest delivery cost)
* auctions that finish 24 hours after the latest bid (there is no pre-determined cut-off time, so no need to delay bidding until the auction is about to finish)
* much lower fees
* a recruitment scheme that encourages users to recruit new users by giving them a share of the fees that their recruits generate.

We ask for your good wishes for our home-grown attempt to get in there and succeed. You might care to take a look at our web site – or even try us out for buying, selling or recruiting.