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EBay is an extremely popular auctioning website loved by buyers and seller alike. They bring in nearly a million dollars a day in fees alone. Wouldn't you like to own your own auction site like EBay? Well now you can. There are a lot of retailers selling auction software and PHP scripts online that allow you to do just that. You can profit from the same fees that EBay does but allowing users to buy and sell items on your auction site. Most scripts or software allow you to set the percentage of fees take for each specific task. You can take a small fee for letting member's add their items, when they sell an item or when they purchase an item.
Softbiz's auction script is a powerful and extensive auction script written in PHP. The script is designed specially to bring in major profits while giving users an easy way to sell and buy items. Not only does Softbiz's auction script allow for auctions but they also let users sell fixed priced items and classified ads. Softbiz's auction script allows users to manage their seller accounts and sellers can post unlimited numbers of items. There is a full member feedback system for buyers and sellers as well as a built in messaging system which allows members to contact one another. You can increase profits by allowing sellers to pay for additional features like highlighted ads, bold ads and front page promotion. Each product has its own image gallery posted by the seller. Sellers can check their profiles to view all their sells and transaction history. Owners can take advantage of a banner rotation for ads. All advertisers have a special advertiser's account to help them keep track of their banners. Advertisers can view reports to see how well their banners are working and even purchase credits to spend on ads. The administrator can manage product categories and subcategories. Add, delete or modify products, monitor messages sent to and from members, mass email all members and configure prices and fees on all features and transactions. The admin can also change the welcome message, terms and conditions and add delete or modify any member's feedback. Members can pay and accept payments from PayPal, all major credit cards, money orders, checks and e-gold. This script cost just $99. That's a pretty good bargain considering all the features that come with it. For an additional $25 they will install the script for you. Be aware that this script requires webhosting, PHP and MySQL in order to work. Technical support from Softbiz is 100% free.