Tag: AuctionWally

  • Auctions on Twitter were bound to happen

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    Aaron Traffas
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    We frequently write about Twitter and its many benefits. We frequently visit our sister site at AuctioneerTweet to see what auctioneers are saying on Twitter. Today, however, we noticed something new. Actual items are now being sold on Twitter using the auction method of marketing. Walt Kolenda, better known as AuctionWally, has conducted several Twitterauctions,…

  • AuctioneerTech launches AuctioneerTweet, gets scooped

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    Aaron Traffas
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    As an effort to build and grow the community of auctioneers using Twitter, we launched a new website yesterday called AuctioneerTweet at – where else – www.auctioneertweet.com. The concept is simple. Any auctioneer with a Twitter account can join and have his or her tweets included in the AuctioneerTweet timeline. A member list on the…

  • AuctionWally calls out eBay CEO

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    Aaron Traffas
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    We have to admit that we’ve been following recent events at eBay with a little bit of schadenfreude. We’ve always held the position that someone who sells on eBay isn’t an auctioneer. eBay is the auctioneer that outsources the work of listing items to its sellers. Over the last few years, we’ve seen eBay shift…