26th July, 2010 - Posted by Lana - No Comments
It took only about a day and a half for a rare 1902 South African ZAR Veldpond coin to change hands on bidorbuy for R450,000. The coin appeared on the site on Friday 23 July at 15:00 hours. Seven minutes later, a prospective buyer asked the seller what would be his minimum price to close the » Read More
16th July, 2010 - Posted by Lana - No Comments
Last year, celebrities raised over R56,000 for charities by auctioning off their time on bidorbuy. You can make this, 2010 Celebrities for Charities event a memorable one by placing your bid to: Spend a day on shoot with Riaan the DIY Man; lunch and refreshments are included, as well as a photo moment with Riaan. Meet and » Read More
13th July, 2010 - Posted by Lana - Comments Off
With the new bidorbuy after sales tools, you can both shield the tacking numbers from prying eyes and post them online for everybody concerned to see. The parcel tracking numbers used to be one of the contentious issues between sellers and buyers. You know how it was. The buyer would say he did not receive the » Read More
7th July, 2010 - Posted by Lana - Comments Off
You know how you can tell a friend about something you spotted on bidorbuy. What, you don’t?! Well, now you do. You simply click on “Tell a friend” button on the listing you think your friend would like to see: Until the day before yesterday, the system allowed you to enter the friend’s email address, your email » Read More
6th July, 2010 - Posted by Lana - Comments Off
As of about now (midday, 6 July 2010), bidorbuyers are free to make use of one more convenience on the site, courtesy of our diligent developers. In the bad old days, when you wanted to do an advanced search, for example for sellers, you had to slide your mouse over the Advanced Search link, click on » Read More
5th July, 2010 - Posted by Lana - Comments Off
Yes, we know, there is the football 2010 World Cup – but what to do during the long winter nights once the sporting action is over? Watch movies, of course. That is why the cold month of July is devoted to the movies and television on bidorbuy. On the 1 of July, there were exactly 42,188 listings » Read More
22nd June, 2010 - Posted by Lana - Comments Off
Life is simply not fair. South African public is still avidly awaiting the official release of iPad, and Apple goes and taunts them with another of their must-have gadgets, iPhone 4… to be meted out to the devotees situated at the tip of Africa – who knows when. One would think that FIFA World Cup » Read More
21st June, 2010 - Posted by Lana - Comments Off
We’ve all been there. We’ve all had a coveted item snatched before our very nose for a few Rands only (to add insult to injury), just because some annoying prior commitment yanked us from our computer at the crucial moment. Well, you need not suffer being outbid by default ever again. Subscribe to the bidorbuy SMS » Read More
10th June, 2010 - Posted by Lana - Comments Off
Its debut in Australia was greeted with epithets such as “creepy”, with some asserting that it amounts to “the single biggest breach of privacy in history”. South Africans seem to be much more laid back about the whole thing and some are looking forward to using it as a house-hunting tool. For better or for worse, Google » Read More
8th June, 2010 - Posted by Lana - Comments Off
The bidorbuy top sellers event 2010 was a good time to take a look back and to announce what lies ahead for Africa’s largest online marketplace (that is, bidorbuy). The bidorbuy Managing Director Andy Higgins outlined the growth of the site during the ten years of existence. Without burdening this post with numbers, suffice it to » Read More
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