Topic: New Music Marketplace launched: Lot Of Music

Lot Of Music, a new online auction website and store for music related items, has launched this year.

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Inspired by all the fabulous music on Intergalactic FM and former CBS, the love of music and the need for competitive websites for people to sell and buy music, we decided to jump the wagon and build a website where it's all about: a Lot Of Music!

Lot Of Music is dedicated to everything music related, like vinyl, cd's & dvd's and instruments. One of the biggest advantages is a website with like-minded people. This will ingrease the knowledge and dedication of our users. And this will increase your sales positively!

Everyone can join, from Label owners looking for extra markets, to buyers searching for ages for that rare piece of vinyl. Don't forget our other popular features, like swapping, wanted ads and importing feedback from most important auctions sites.

An introduction discount of 1 month is active now to let all Intergalactic FM listeners get used to & take advantage of all features & benefits. The discount consists of free listing, free 'End Of Auction Fee', free additional category and free 'Highlighted Item Fee'. To make use of the discount, please use this Voucher Code: 8273e7d98798 on every item you want to sell.

Lot Of Music also offers special discounts for Intergalactic FM members with a paid Membership Subscription.
- 20% discount on 'End Of Auction' fees
- free Additional Category Fee
- free Bold Item Fee
So join the Intergalactic FM Community (starting at 5 Euro/month) and enjoy the nice discount on Lot Of Music as long as you're a Intergalactic FM member!

Lot Of Music Features:

Make an offer
Buyers can make offers on listed items, which allows potential buyers to make an offer to the seller if the item has not received any bids. The seller can select whether or not to accept such offers and also set the price range they are will to listen offers between.

Wanted Ads
You can post adverts for items you want. Best of all: it's free!.

Vouchers
As a seller, you will be able to create as many discount vouchers for your buyers as you like, including custom expiration date and offering reductions as a percentage or a flat rate.

Wholesale lots
Perfect for sellers who want to get rid of their stock!

Account Mode
All users are allowed to build up an account and will be billed once a month (15th).

Stores
Everyone can open their very own store. Each store owner can pick and choose their own categories from the main selection. Store owners can choose whether to list items in their store, for auction or both.

Taxation & Accounting
For companies there's the possibility to work with taxes.

Feedback System
Users can leave feedback for each other.  The feedback system is "tick" based allowing users to rate other members by choosing a suitable tick rating (1-5).  Coloured stars also automatically appear next to a username whenever they reach a new feedback number.

Feedback Import (From 8 Other Sites)
By providing a specific code that is unique per user, you can retrieve your feedback score from 8 other auction sites.

Proxy (auto) bidding system
Buyers can place a maximum bid on items, the software will then automatically re-bid for them should their bid be overtaken by a rival bidder.

Buy It Now
Sellers can accept Buy It Now offers.

Item Swap
Lot Of Music is the first auction site who makes use of the Item Swapping feature.  The seller has the option to choose whether or not they want to accept swap offers.  If they do, buyers have the option to propose a swap deal instead of a bid.  The seller then has the option to either accept the swap deal or reject it and continue the live auction.

Anti-Sniping Feature
Lot Of Music has enabled anti-sniping. This feature turns an online auction into a more authentic in-house auction, where the auction item will continue to be available for bidding as long as there are participants placing bids. The sniping feature is setup to extend the auction 30 minutes after every last bid.

Auto-Relist
Sellers can select whether or not to have their item automatically re-listed, they can select whether the item is listed if sold, un-sold and also how many times the items should be re-listed.

Custom Start Time
Sellers can choose to list right away or choose a custom start time for their item.

Two types of Listing
Sellers can sell in standard auction format or Dutch format which is ideal when listing several of the same items in a single listing.

Reserve price
Sellers can add a reserve price to their auction.

Private Auction
Sellers can choose to hide the ID of the bidders on their auction.

Auction currency
Sellers can select which currency the item should be sold in.

Lot Of Music features an advanced postage system.  The seller can select who should pay for the postage costs and whether or not they will post worldwide.  They can also enter specific postage costs and services.

Combined Invoicing
Sellers can now combine invoices for items sold to the same user saving both time and money.

And lots more....
New features will be added frequently.

We hope you'll enjoy using the Lot Of Music website and we want to thank you for your interest. If you have any comments, suggestions, or enquiries and would like to contact us, please click the "Contact Us" tab which can be found at the top right, and bottom of every page.

Click to enter Lot Of Music...

Regards,
The Lot Of Music Team
Flagio

Re: New Music Marketplace launched: Lot Of Music

nice, i just registered

lots of records have to leave

Vlam Aan

Re: New Music Marketplace launched: Lot Of Music

That's great!   I know it can be a bit overwhelming with all the features, but I know you can handle it! smile
There's also a support forum on the Lot Of Music site, so ask all you want...

Re: New Music Marketplace launched: Lot Of Music

Overwhelming indeed.... Just registered and will get into it later on...

btw: Did you made this website?

Re: New Music Marketplace launched: Lot Of Music

During the summer 2008 I started to make the plans, invested money in the software and custom made extensions and started developing it further. Also the design and everyting around it. It was time consuming, but it was worth it!

Re: New Music Marketplace launched: Lot Of Music

Impressive job! Will keep an eye on this one.

Re: New Music Marketplace launched: Lot Of Music

Flagio wrote:

During the summer 2008 I started to make the plans, invested money in the software and custom made extensions and started developing it further. Also the design and everyting around it. It was time consuming, but it was worth it!

Very nice job!

Re: New Music Marketplace launched: Lot Of Music

I don't like the anti-sniping function tongue

Otherwise very nice website, good layout. How many members are there so far?

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hysteric wrote:

I don't like the anti-sniping function tongue
Otherwise very nice website, good layout. How many members are there so far?

haha than you must be a experienced buyer smile
atm 14 registered users.

10 (edited by JamesTRubotnik 2009-02-07 19:37:58)

Re: New Music Marketplace launched: Lot Of Music

anti-sniping spoils the fun for me. the one thing i actually like about ebay and that keeps me from getting involved in ridiculous bidder wars is the ability to snipe. i determine how much i'm willing to shake for an item, set up the snipe and don't think about it anymore.

can you disable anti-sniping for robots? big_smile






... just kidding.

Re: New Music Marketplace launched: Lot Of Music

like in first player shooting game, snipping is lame, imo

@flagio
do you know at what price the cbs slipmates ended up ?

Re: New Music Marketplace launched: Lot Of Music

Thx guys for the discussion, and that's just the issue here: there are several opinions possible on this matter. I'm open for everything, so if really most people don't like the anti-sniping feature, it can be disabled. For now I think I leave it this way.

As for auction results, I hope you understand I can't give details. But I'll let the seller know...

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Coming soon on Lot Of Music: an Excel/CSV Import tool. The Excel/CSV Import tool allows users to import listings into the website database from Excel and Comma Separated Value (CSV) files (like eBay's Turbo Lister exports). Using this tool you can quickly and easily import large quantities of listings so it can help sellers to have their inventory uploaded in bulk.

It is well-known that dealers and power sellers can fill the website with unlimited listings, but they can't waste time placing one ad at a time. With this new tool, such tasks will become much more bearable and profitable, as sellers will be able to list more auctions and there will be less time involved in doing so.

Stay tuned...

Re: New Music Marketplace launched: Lot Of Music

@Flagio - Good luck with your new website, I'll check it out when I have the time.
Let us know when ebay buys it for x billion dollars smile

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