StuffBuff Social Bidding System Hits Beta And You Can Try It Here

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Feb 15, 2010

StuffBuff, a TC50 company, has officially launched bringing with it social, embeddable auctions for the masses. What is StuffBuff? It’s basically an auction site with a social bent. Instead of wading into a mess of used sleeping bags and broken Nintendo DSes on eBay (true story!), you head over to StuffBuff and set up an auction. You can then embed the auction into your FaceBuzzBookTwit page. Unlock “entertainment auction” sites like Swoopo, this is a straight up auction service with two little additions.

From the press releases:

• LiveHaggle – This “first of its kind” chat-based auction system was
developed using PayPal’s Adaptive Payments API, and enables members to
engage in real time chat with sellers and other bidders across any Web
site or blog, while committing to bids in the conversation.
• Blink! – An addictive twist on Dutch-style auctions, this tool asks
users, “How long can you hold out?” Items are presented for sale at a
starting price that drops throughout the course of the auction, the more
auction participants the faster the price falls. The first bidder takes
home the product.

To show you dudes an dudettes how it works, StuffBuff has set up an auction for a PS3 with all proceeds going to Stupid Cancer/I2Y.

It can only be a matter of time before eBay tries their own embeddable auctions so StuffBuff has a short window of interesting opportunity. How could you use it? Well, maybe you could auction off a date with yourself on your blog or Facebook page! Just imagine if all your readers could compete for your undivided attention and, in this amorous month, affection.

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http://AskYourTargetMarket.com David Handel

Congratulations Stuffbuff. Looks great! We were across the aisle from you at TC50.
http://livehaggle.wordpress.com maltob

Thanks David!
http://www.magnity.com David Shantz

Congratulations Michael, Toby and all, your site, widgets and brand are all world-class.
http://stuffbuff.com Michael Langer

Thanks David, Appreciate all you help. We are trying our best. (and will continue too)
http://www.webtechads.com Mark

“Instead of wading into a mess of used sleeping bags and broken Nintendo DSes on eBay (true story!),”

- Stop with these “Beta-hype” articles. This is a great site, don’t get me wrong, but I am getting suspect at all these beta showcases TechCrunch is putting out without showcasing the pros and cons of the companies themselves.

If I were to transpose the words of the first paragraph into audio, this would sound like an infomercial. It just seems like these are just hype articles to gain exposure, and not anything substantial that would give me some insight to the company. People have rss feeds to killerstartups.com for a reason. If there is any glad-hand articles being posted, please let your audience know.

As for the site, I really like it, but any site (ANY SITE) can be manipulated by scammers. Just because Ebay has its bunch of broken items, what makes it better for StuffBuff to be able to keep scammers from screwing over people?

People know ways of getting false Paypal verified accounts, fake fb accounts. Hell, I made a profile and created an item without being asked for anything to verify my existence.

I know it is in Beta, but don’t hype these companies if they can’t keep people from manipulating the system. Even some of their form fields don’t validate some characters; there could be still some vulnerabilities in how this site works.

This would be a great site, but don’t hype it until it actually works. When it does, I will fall in love with it; it is an amazing idea with a lot of potential.
http://www.myspace.com/khataroo Khataru

That is a really good idea to not only have an auction the seller can place the auction in a place where there may be interest. I do have to make one correction the feminine for “Dude” is not “Dudette” it is Dudine.
I just thought I would hip you. Thanks Khat
http://stuffbuff.com Michael Langer

Mark,

First, thanks you for the positive compliments and for the critiques. I think that as my own harshest critic I appreciate your comments. I think the only to become the “Great Site” that we can be is to act on comments like yours to be great.

At the same time I would like to let you know what you can expect in from us and to clarify a thing two.

Since StuffBuff does allow people to catalog their stuff without selling, we do not require verification until someone decides to sell that item.

We have a revelutionary (No Really) review system coming soon that will remove subjectivity from reviews. It is like nothing that exists now

We also think that chatting with a seller directly can help users determine if a person is legit. A seller from “Oklahoma” that is clearly using google translate to communicate and disguise a foreign language.

But we will try harder then others out there have we just can’t talk about all our methods. :)

As for TC, I would like to think that we are being chosen on our merits. I know that TechCrunch writes what they want and they do their own reporting. There are many tech blogs out there and I think their success speaks for itslef.

Please keep the feedback coming!

Michael Langer CEO
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