penny auction scripts

You’re about to read our very first Experiences of a Penny Auction Owner story, an ongoing series that will feature stories, experiences and tips from penny auction owners. Hopefully this series will give rich prospective, as well as provide current penny auction startups with valuable advice.

This first story is from the owner of the young penny auction site MusiBids.com, Amy Hermes. MusiBids is a niche penny auction site for musical instruments and other music related items.

Amy’s site had to go down recently due to a really bad script issue. They re-launched today, and she has sent us her story to share with you.

The idea for MUSIbids.com came from my 8 years experience selling musical instruments. When a child enters band or decides to play music, the majority of parents are not prepared for the costs of everything that requires. I have seen it time and time again, a parent comes into the store to get their kid a trumpet, flute, or guitar not knowing it is going to be a major purchase. The high costs of a child wanting to play music causes the parent to react negatively making the child’s first music experience to be negative.

Myself and my team at MUSIbids.com all play instruments, and we believe music is a vital part of a child education and life experience. If a child or anyone expresses an interest in music they should be allowed every opportunity to explore that, despite the costs. At MusiBids.com, Price is an Option.

When we started this company we knew nothing about the penny auction culture. We spend time on the various forums, and sites learning as much as we could.

We first decided to purchase‚ script from pennyauctionsoft. After reading about them in the forums we quickly decided to change and go with pennyauctionsoftware.org. Since we were on a time schedule we did not take the time to research more than what was on the surface about pennyauctionsoftware.org. We moved forward and had a successful launch. Two weeks into operations our site was hacked, repaired, then hacked again 30 minutes before our Sunday auctions were set to start close. This caused our site to be down for over two weeks.

(Note from PAW: PennyAuctionSoftware.org is run by Toni Kirchner of the late Vacation4Pennies.com.)

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