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Marketplace.Sitepoint.com is Slow. Definitely A Reason For Sitepoint to Fear Me.

September 17, 2008 By 2 Comments

marketplace.sitepoint.com is a great painfully slow place to Buy and Sell domains, established websites, premium websites, and more.

This is all well and great, except for the fact that it took me a good 5 minutes just to get the link url’s to add above.

There are a few other sites out there to buy and sell websites:

http://www.websitebroker.com/ – good design, but not functional
http://www.sedo.com/ – bad design, terrible registration process (you can’t have numbers in your street address. At least it wouldn’t let me). Altogether – not user friendly or functional.
http://www.flipsquare.com/ – looks childish to me, but hey, what do I know?
http://www.dealasite.com/ – I can’t comment because the site looks so ugly that I immediately clicked out.

Judging by my experience lately with trying to find websites to buy, I think there is definitely room for another website broker in the e-world. I’m strongly considering filling that gap with a super easy to use, functional interface. Heck, there are plenty of simple improvements that sitepoint could make to it’s marketplace that would make it millions of times easier to use. One change: let users arrange the listings by “ending soonest”. Something similar to eBay. Come on, it’s not rocket science.

I’d like to hear if anybody shares my same feelings, or if I’m just up in the night.

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  • http://marketplace.sitepoint.com Matt Mickiewicz

    Thanks for the feedback – you weren’t the only one to notice that the Marketplace was running really slowly during the last couple of days.

    We’ve made some changes and things should be running MUCH faster now. The frontpage should load in 30 seconds, or less.

    Regarding the re-design and interface, you’re definitely thinking along the same lines we are. That’s our next major project and something we’re currently working on.

    Regarding the “Ending Soon” sort functionality – surprisingly, from our experience, most auctions end either through a BIN bid or through the reserve being reached and the auction holding choosing to declare a winner early.

  • http://EliteEternity.com admin

    Really cool to get a personal response, Mr. Mickiewicz. Apparently you’re more on top of things than I had presumed. If you’re in need of more feedback, or an opinion, just let me know. I’d love to help out.

    I, as well as many of my friends look forward to future improvements with the site.
    - Jeremy

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