Grand Slam Bids Beta

[Matt]

We are excited to announce that GrandSlamBids.com is (finally) ready for Beta use. Mostly based on your feedback, we have made over 100 functional changes since our "alpha" phase 4 months ago, and at this point, believe we have all major functionality that we need in the software. Once started, we expect our Beta phase to be fully functional and last at least 45 days, to be followed very closely by our full open.

We plan to make a more widespread announcement about being open for bidding on Wednesday, so, at this time, we invite sellers to come and list on the site (though, of course, you can list after Wednesday as well). The fee to advance schedule a listing has been removed until Wednesday so you can set your listings to start anytime on Wednesday or the weekdays that follow. Additionally, if you have listings in eBay's system, or an eBay "bulk listing" utility, and want to move them to GrandSlamBids, please let us know and we'll let you know what we need so that we can get them into our system for you.

We urge everyone to check out our faq section for answers to some common questions, as well as use the forum for any questions not yet addressed in the faq. The fees we have in place for this Beta phase are further discounted below our regular fee schedule with the goal to attract as many listings as possible. The fees are real and live and are expected to be paid per the site rules.

Anyone who earned a free listing upgrade by either winning or selling an item during our Alpha phase, should go ahead with the upgraded listing and then let us know and we'll adjust your balance appropriately. Sellers get a free "Front Page Featured" listing and winning buyers a free "Category Featured" listing.

As always, please send us any feedback you have, either directly to admin@grandslambids.com, or through the site contact us page. Our success is dependent on your help and we're hoping that together we can make this a success for all of us.

Please understand that this being Beta, we do anticipate some technical issues may occur, but rest assured we will work with you to resolve any issues in a satisfactory manner.

Leon & Matt
http://www.GrandSlamBids.com

[Wite3]

Very excited to have a new place to search and bid. Good luck to all, esp. Matt and Leon.

Joshua

[Leon]

Thanks Joshua...we shall see.

Also, we did have a few hundred folks register in the alpha testing phase and of course if you have registered on the site you won't need to do it again. Thanks again for the well wishes. We hope to be another venue not replace any....

[T206DK]

I hope to be able to kiss Ebay goodbye really soon......this is great news !!

[AndyG09]

I enjoyed the first go round, and landed a nice card. Thrilled that things are progressing! Hope everything goes smoothly and good luck Leon and Matt!

[yawie99]

Originally Posted by T206DK

I hope to be able to kiss Ebay goodbye really soon......this is great news !!

Absolutely! I think eBay's declining appeal has had a more negative impact on the hobby than has the general state of the economy. Best of luck Leon and Matt.

[Matt]

Thanks for all the support guys!

We have to charge something to validate that the fee collection system is working, but we are hoping that a .03 listing fee won't deter anyone

Keep the listings coming!