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CQout sets sights on eBay crown
Summary
CQout,
international online market place and auction community, has announced it is
setting its sights on disaffected eBay users as part of its US expansion plans
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CQout, the
international online market place and auction community, has announced that it
is setting its sights on disaffected eBay sellers as part of its US expansion
plans.
CQout managing director, Siamak Bashi said, "We have recently celebrated our 10
year anniversary of providing auction services to UK where our reputation for
trust and security is second to none which has helped us to grow to become one
of the largest auction service providers. Our plans are now to continue our
growth by providing tailored services to our US customers. We believe auction
users in the US deserve a better service than they are currently getting from
eBay."
The decision to move into the US market and to take on eBay was made following
customer demands for an auction service which responds to its customer needs
rather than impose rule changes every few months, like the recent imposition of
certain enforced 'Post Free' product offerings which have alienated many
previously loyal users.
The general ethos at CQout has always been to be flexible and respond to what
customers ask for. Siamak highlighted, "We recently had the owner of US movie
poster website who wanted to run their own auction site. But rather than go
through the expense of buying software and hassle of running an auction site
they asked us if we would tailor our services for their site. Within days we had
an auction service running on their site".
Siamak believes CQout is ideally positioned to take the fight to eBay as its
pricing structure is lower than eBay and has proven particularly attractive to
medium to large sellers with its no listing fee policy. This means a seller can
list thousands or even tens of thousands of items on CQout at zero cost, which
means additional exposure and marketing for their products for free.
While based in the UK, CQout has taken several important steps to ensure a safe,
secure and seamless service is provided for all US customers.
CQout online auctions services for US customers will be
provided on the CQout.com top level domain, but it will use exactly the same
secure technologies which have been tried and test over the last 10 years in the
UK market, and lead to it being the only auction site to be certified hacker
proof to standards set by the FBI and audited independently by McAfee Secure,
one of the biggest names in internet security.
The US auction service is also fully integrated with the rest of CQout auction
operations, so when a seller lists their items on the US site, it can
automatically be shown and made available to International buyers from any
country the seller chooses via a simple tick box selection on the selling form.
The sellers products are seamlessly displayed and sold in the seller's chosen
currency, but prices are also displayed automatically in the buyers' home
currency. This makes the buying decision much easier for customers and is
therefore less prone to mistakes and abandoned sales. This is a big contrast to
eBay where sellers who want to sell internationally have to list separately on
other eBay sites and pay additional listings fees. The CQout in-house payment
systems SecurePay and EasyPay are also available to all CQout buyers and sellers
from any countries where Visa & MasterCards are available, which covers
virtually the whole world.
About CQout:
CQout is a UK-based, international auction company, with users in more than 57
countries around the world, conducting person-to-person and business to consumer
auctions, at CQout.com, CQout.co.uk and CQout.ie.
CQout's facilities enable buyers, once registered, to bid on a wide selection of
merchandise in a selection of different auctions, including
fancy dress auctions, online
car auctions, antiques auctions and
jewellery auctions.
PR Contact:
Tony Newton
Director
CQout Ltd
PO Box 2815
Reading
United Kingdom
RG1 9EE
+44 8448 040 761
www.CQout.com
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