QXL hasn't been a busy auction site for years.

Didn't know they hadn't already gone bust. Oh well...

How about an auction site aggregator? I mean generally if you want to find something up for auction then ebay has it and you don't bother looking further.

If there was a site which would search numerous auction sites for you then qxl could still have been in business.

Maybe they will finally stop emailing me. I forget why I registered ten years ago but nothing on gods earth stopped the email. They clearly decided there was no money in auctions so they just sent out advertising. It is bizzare how they never improved their site, ever, even when they had millions of pounds.

(Oh incidentally http://www.auctionlotwatch.co.uk/ used to search multiple auction sites but people quickly learnt that there was only ever anything on ebay anyway...)

All it had turned into was a peddler for sextoys and other random rude stuff.

On second thoughts, damn ill miss it.

I was having a discussion with one of our developers the other day about this. Would be a good idea if someone had the time to put it together and write code to talk to all the different APIs

First auction site I registered with. Never really seemed as attracting as eBay, but it's sad another option is going down the pan. :-(

QXL was bigger in the UK than ebay for some time.

How did QXL let a company with higher fees, more problems and less customer service overtake it .... and keep on going until it completely flattened QXL?

I think there is a fairly substantial chunk of "bad management/marketing" involved in that somewhere....... A shame really

You won't get a competitor to ebay, because it's in the seller's interests to go for the largest market (ie: ebay), so they get the best price, so why would they go elsewhere?

Amazon marketplace vs E-bay shops

it's not much of a battleground at the moment but it has the potential to become one.

I remember working for a company that supplied QXL in the early days, I met Tim Jackson on one of his supplier trips and "funding" trips when he just started the company (in thouse days they bought surplus deals to auction them off themselves to kick start it).... when he came to visit he brought his purchasing manager one Brent Hoberman. Brent then left after a few months and came back to see me and my Boss with an idea for selling discount travel over the internet, he was looking for £50K to £100K of angel investment... I said £50K its worth a punt.... My Boss said no thanks it will never catch on. Ha ha