Antique bottle auction site is live! as of right NOW!

[cc6pack]

Steve

I took about 25-30 fliers to the Rome show, and most of them got gone. Just about everybody that picked one up asked questions, and about the only thing I could say is that it was an alternative to ebay, and it was a brand new site. I'll see if I can get some stuff listed later to day or tomorrow. I did notice that you said you did not want anything newer than 1959, this will put a crimp on my commemorative Coke bottles, most of what I want to to list will date 1980's-1990's somewhere in the $50.00-$100.00 range.

 

[druggistnut]

Steve,
I tried to email you through the auction site, but it gave me an error message.
These are three pass-ons I have for you, from Michigan bottle folks.

>I signed up for this site and my credit card co. blocked my card !!! omg!

>Had to cancel my bank card and get a new one this merchant has no name when pinging the card. It alerted Visa Fraud.
[/align]>Tried to email the site, and got an error message, are you sure this is a legit site? [/align] [/align]My credit card info went just fine. There does seem to be an issue with peoples firewalls or something, not allowing emails to be processed. The error message I received was from INET.WEB[/align]If you want the email for the folks in the above messages, or have suggestions, please let me know. I'm trying to run point for you, with 5 bottle clubs.[/align]Bill[/align]newzmaker@aol.com[/align]
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[druggistnut]

Steven,
I have not been able to find a "log out" botton, even on the home page.
When I click on the "Featured Store" banner (tan colored), it takes me to your store. Just below the word FEES, there is supposed to be a picture of something. Only the small red box appears.
Bill

 

[mrbottles]

Hey Bill,

Thanks for the promo. A lot of people signed up today. It may be a firewall issue I don’t think so though. We host a freaking heap of sites many huge ecommerce sites. How a card would be reported or pinged doesn’t even make sense to me. I will be on this like white rice first thing in the morning. I have no idea what kind of error message they would be getting. I will call a network administrator tonight to see what the deal is. I have about twenty emails from people sitting in my inbox asking about the site.

I see at least a couple that are asking why they have to input a credit card number. We simply have no other way to make sure people are legitimate. The only way to stop pornographers, content spammers and listers of junk is to know exactly who they are. The commerce function on the site is completely secure. The site checks that the card is legitimate and that the billing address is the same as the account address. So if someone uses a business card and does not use the business cards billing address in the billing address field it will be refused. That is standard for all internet commerce so that should not be a problem. A card has to be on file for seller’s fees too. There is no other way to process the minimal fees we have.

I handed out over 400 fliers today! People were very excited about the site. You can list coke bottles. Bottle related collectables are fine. Coke is fine. There is a report auction rule violations on every auction so anyone who complains about a coke bottle we will contact and explain the exception.

Any information on what the errors are even getting them forwarded would be huge in resolving this post haste even tonight.

My personal email at work is Steve@inet-pc.com. My bottles email is steve@mrbottles.com. Maybe they have a junk email in one of the contact pages from testing. I will send to each of them right now from the site to see what happens. I will be here on and off between answering emails at the site.

Thanks for the help.

Please assure people this site is all real, the best thing to happen to collectors in years and all bugs will be worked out as fast as possible.

Steven

 

[mrbottles]

Hey Bill,

I just looked into the front end of the site admin. I can see one unverified new users. It is probably the person whose card was turned down. I have no way to tell I can't even see what kind of card they used BUT an administrator working with the commerce process company should be able to tell what the problem is. I will let you know via email tomorrow and if it is on our end it will be fixed. It might be as simple as a miss type in the card number... Again I can’t tell.

Steven

 

[cc6pack]

Steve

Thanks for clearing that up. I also noticed you have a category Civil War, WWI, WWII, items is there going to be any restrictions for the dreaded German swastika?

I had no problem with my CC/DC and it is a business card.

 

[mrbottles]

The only problem you would have with a valid credit card is if you use a different mailing address than the card is billed to. It is a common fraud tactic with stolen card numbers. Virtually every commerce site will refuse them.

I don't know. I am not a big censor. I don’t want porn because I would like to protect the innocence of potential child visitors. A swastika is a part of world history. If someone puts out a racist rant to support the sale of their World War II item they don’t belong. If they are selling a relic from an evil regime defeated by America united with most of the world as allies I am all for it. I guess we will have to play that on by ear. I am against racism and I am imposing my morality on the site. I have said this before for me I don’t have a lot of moral platitudes. I see good and bad as totally different things with nothing in the middle. So an artifact is fine a racist sales method won't be tolerated for an antique bottle or fishing lure or piece of furniture or swastika. There will simply be a level of decorum expected on the site. People can and will believe whatever they want. User of the auction site simply will be required to adhere to a level of basic human decency including the consideration that the site welcomes human beings of every race color creed AND children. Any content that is not appropriate for children is simply not welcome along with the people who create it.

It is something to consider that we are going to remove people who break rules and cheat other site users AND load bad content for good. In the long run it will make the site better for everyone.

Hope that helps. Looks like I will need to start writing policy statements.

Steven

 

[GuntherHess]

I started listing a few items to try out your site.
There are a few feedback comments I have after trying it.
- your photo hosting seems very nice , I like it.
- you should make the default for reserve $0. Its a pain to remember to put that in every time.
- its really a pain to have to enter my paypal address in every time I list and item. Odds are i'll do it wrong 1 out of five times.
- please put a payment option in for personal checks, it sucks having to enter other payment options and personal check every time.
- the only option for USPS shipping I saw was priority. Most of the time I ship bottles priority but I dont ship things like trade cards or books priority.

Please accept this as constructive comments. I hope to see more people trying out the site.

 

[mrbottles]

Hey Matt,

I not only accept your input I am grateful. Every change will be made tomorrow. That is what it will take to get it right. I see you did your code host too. We will figure out how to make that work tomorrow as well.

The big bright images for no charge are a major advantage.

Steven

 

[GuntherHess]

After getting used to fleabay the images look much better on your site. I was afraid they would be too small but I actually think I need to scale them down some.

I started entering in HTML code out of habit but decided that wasnt really needed.