Sieng van Tran from AuctionAssist was featured in the Express on Sunday (5th August). AuctionAssist provides an outsourced ebaying service for individuals, business, retailers and manufacturers, specialising in ‘Big Ticket’ items such as cookers and laptops.
According to their website 56% of brits are self confessed hoarders and as a whole we are hoarding £2.5 billion! I am personally having a clear out and ebay session on friday. After the collapse of Auctioning4u’s drop of stores it seems that AuctionAssist are looking to open nationwide drop of stores. But has not the fall of isoldit taught any lessons? Does AuctionAssist have some magic that auctioning4u and isold it simply did not posses? Will specialising in the big ticket items save their bacon? Tran said he expected to contribute to £100 million of turnover for ebay in the next 24 months in the UK alone. Well I am routing for you and hope you succeed where others have failed. It will be hard to get investors into the franchise though with a few burned fingers already.
The article also mentioned Samedaybooks, as they are set to acquire AuctionAssist this week.
