Buy.com’s New Facebook Auction Application: Garage Sale
Buy.com introduced it’s new Facebook application for auction based sellers called Garage Sale. The announcement came a few days ago via the Buy.com Press Release. The new auction application is designed to let Facebook users run auctions and sell products from their business and social networking Facebook pages.
Garage Sale allows consumers to become personal online retailers using the backing of a major Internet company like Buy.com. With this embedded e-commerce capability, we see tremendous growth opportunities in providing the millions of users on business and social networks with an alternative to eBay and the ability to transform their personal profile pages beyond information-sharing.
Now, Facebook users can sell products and consumers can buy goods directly from the users profile page. Buyers won’t ever have to leave the page to complete their purchase and payment transaction. Garage Sale consumers no longer need to pay listing charges associated with online auction sites, and they can take advantage of significantly lower individual transaction fees.
Current Facebook users can add the Garage Sale widget to their pages from Facebook’s application suite. Users then upload necessary product information, including photos and begin selling on their profile pages using Garage Sale’s secure transaction capability. Right now, the Garage Sale application is only available to Facebook users, however, Buy.com plans to expand the service to users on other social networks in the near future.
To help Garage Sale users promote product sales, Buy.com is adding a special tab which will provide a complete marketplace for independent sellers to utilize Buy.com’s shopping marketplace and product platform.
The Garage Sale platform is based on patent-pending, embedded, e-commerce technology that Buy.com acquired earlier this year from Shoperion Inc. Buy.com also will use the Shoperion technology to enhance Buy.com�s advertising on third-party sites with the addition of checkout functionality incorporated directly within the advertisement.
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Add a new comment...Comment posted by Bhaarat
February 19, 2008 @ 9:18 pm
“Now, Facebook users can sell products and consumers can buy goods directly from the users profile page. Buyers won’t ever have to leave the page to complete their purchase and payment transaction”
righttt…with all the issues facebook is facing with personal information..who would be thick enough to actually use their CC on a facebook profile.
its one thing to get a facebook app so you can ‘throw obama’ at your friends but getting an app that would keep your CC information is insane.
Comment posted by Drushim
July 28, 2008 @ 3:05 am
Thank’s for the info… was very helpfull
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