Alternative to eBay UK – Priceminister UK
eBay alternative, PriceMinister, is the first website to bring together individuals and professionals who sell and buy new, used or collectable products at fixed prices. There are about 23 million visits to the PriceMinister sites each month, 127 million products are for sale, and PriceMinister now has 10 million members.
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PriceMinister is an online marketplace for buyers and sellers that also acts as a trusted third party. Its growing number of customers is, in large part, due to its guarantee that the seller is paid and, second, that the buyer is reimbursed if merchandise is undelivered or defective.
PriceMinister’s approach is very different to eBay so if you’re an eBay user (especially if you’re a seller and don’t like the eBay Top Rated Seller (TRS) policy) why not join PriceMinister
for free and see the difference for yourself!
Looking to buy used DVDs? PriceMinister UK is the number one place on the internet where people come to sell and buy used DVDs as well as millions of other second hand electronic items, books, clothes and fashion accessories.
What the Press say about PriceMinister
LONDON (Reuters) – Online market place PriceMinister, France’s second-ranked e-commerce site behind eBay, said it was expanding into the UK as free listings and its clampdown on fake goods attracted rising numbers of buyers.
“The UK is the biggest e-commerce market in Europe. We will aggressively buy traffic, notably from Google and price comparison sites,” Chief Executive Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet told Reuters in an interview ahead of the site’s UK launch on Friday.
“We want to be in the top-five audience rankings by the end of 2010 — eBay, Amazon.com, Tesco, play.com and soon PriceMinister.”
The number of unique users on PriceMinister’s French site has grown from 60 percent of eBay’s level in 2008 to 80 percent in February, he said, and if the trend continued it would overtake the U.S. company in 2010. The site already operates in Spain and French-speaking parts of Belgium and Switzerland.
PriceMinister’s free-listings policy — it takes a cut of the sale price — was encouraging people to list more goods on the site, he said.
“The number of individual sellers is picking up quickly because of the downturn,” he said. “A year ago aquarter of buyers were also sellers, now a third of buyers are sellers.”
Clampdown on Fake Goods
Also attracting buyers to PriceMinister was its tough stance on fake goods, said Kosciusko-Morizet.
“Three years ago we decided our position was not sustainable — we feel responsible for what’s on our site and responsible for getting rid of counterfeit goods,” he said.
Luxury goods makers are increasingly determined to tackle online sales of fake versions of their products, with France’s LVMH and L’Oreal launching legal action in European
courts, with mixed results, against eBay.
PriceMinister was called to give evidence in cosmetics company L’Oreal’s ongoing case against the U.S. giant over the sale of fake cosmetics in the British High Court this month.
Kosciusko-Morizet said PriceMinister, which launched in France in 2001, worked with 90 percent of luxury goods manufacturers in France, including L’Oreal and LVHM, to identify counterfeit goods and remove them from its listings.
It also offered buyers a money-back guarantee on any products that turned out to be fake, he said.
The strategy initially cost some sales growth, he said, but it was now paying off as sellers and buyers increasingly trusted the veracity of items for sale on the site.
“We have 90 percent growth in clothing and apparel,” he said. “Buyers feel safe and sellers feel safe.”
PriceMinister is an online marketplace for buyers and sellers that also acts as a trusted third party. Its growing number of customers is, in large part, due to its guarantee that the seller is paid and, second, that the buyer is reimbursed if merchandise is undelivered or defective.
PriceMinister’s approach is very different to eBay so if you’re an eBay user (especially if you’re a seller and don’t like the eBay Top Rated Seller (TRS) policy) why not join PriceMinister
for free and see the difference for yourself!
What the Press say about PriceMinister
LONDON (Reuters) – Online market place PriceMinister, France’s second-ranked e-commerce site behind eBay, said it was expanding into the UK as free listings and its clampdown on fake goods attracted rising numbers of buyers.
“The UK is the biggest e-commerce market in Europe. We will aggressively buy traffic, notably from Google and price comparison sites,” Chief Executive Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet told Reuters in an interview ahead of the site’s UK launch on Friday.
“We want to be in the top-five audience rankings by the end of 2010 — eBay, Amazon.com, Tesco, play.com and soon PriceMinister.”
The number of unique users on PriceMinister’s French site has grown from 60 percent of eBay’s level in 2008 to 80 percent in February, he said, and if the trend continued it would overtake the U.S. company in 2010. The site already operates in Spain and French-speaking parts of Belgium and Switzerland.
PriceMinister’s free-listings policy — it takes a cut of the sale price — was encouraging people to list more goods on the site, he said.
“The number of individual sellers is picking up quickly because of the downturn,” he said. “A year ago aquarter of buyers were also sellers, now a third of buyers are sellers.”
Clampdown on Fake Goods
Also attracting buyers to PriceMinister was its tough stance on fake goods, said Kosciusko-Morizet.
“Three years ago we decided our position was not sustainable — we feel responsible for what’s on our site and responsible for getting rid of counterfeit goods,” he said.
Luxury goods makers are increasingly determined to tackle online sales of fake versions of their products, with France’s LVMH and L’Oreal launching legal action in European
courts, with mixed results, against eBay.
PriceMinister was called to give evidence in cosmetics company L’Oreal’s ongoing case against the U.S. giant over the sale of fake cosmetics in the British High Court this month.
Kosciusko-Morizet said PriceMinister, which launched in France in 2001, worked with 90 percent of luxury goods manufacturers in France, including L’Oreal and LVHM, to identify counterfeit goods and remove them from its listings.
It also offered buyers a money-back guarantee on any products that turned out to be fake, he said.
The strategy initially cost some sales growth, he said, but it was now paying off as sellers and buyers increasingly trusted the veracity of items for sale on the site.
“We have 90 percent growth in clothing and apparel,” he said. “Buyers feel safe and sellers feel safe.”