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David Brown
BIDAZZLED, THE NEXT BIG THING IN ONLINE AUCTIONS
Majority of profits fund cancer charity
LOUISVILLE, KY., October 27, 2009
Wouldn’t it be great to win an auction for a new ipod for under $50. Wouldn’t it be even better if you were Bidding Risk Free? Could this all be possible while benefiting a charity? The answer is a resounding YES! This Thursday marks the launch of bidazzled.com, the first pay-per-bid auction website to bring together the fun, excitement and great deals of popular European sites with the added benefit of risk-free bidding. If you live in North America, just register, and Bidazzled will give you five free bids so you can see how much fun it can be!
Available only to bidders in North America, Bidazzled is designed to provide greater opportunities for bidders to win while benefitting those with Small Cell Lung Cancer (SCLC). The launch is scheduled for 3:00 p.m. EST, November 1, 2009. Registration is free, and each new bidder receive 5 free bids just for registering. Initial membership is limited to 5,000 people.
In development for the better part of a year, Bidazzled is cleverly designed to improve the overall experience for bidders. Listed products are all new, unopened, name brand products with full warranties. Products range from ipod’s to gaming systems to laptops and even home appliances with emphasis on must have gadgets for the holiday season. The best part, bids never cost more than $.67 and in many cases are free and if you don’t win – you receive full value of your paid bids towards purchasing the item and you receive bonus bids as a thank you for playing.
Bidding starts at 18 cents or less and every bid increases the price by that starting amount…and bids are ALWAYS less than a dollar. If you place a bid in the final seconds, the timer resets to 18 seconds to give other bidders one more chance—our version of “going once, going twice…” But, if you bid 18 cents on a new laptop and no one else bids, you win—for 18 cents! The end of an auction is a high energy exciting event and if you need to step away from your computer, “BidMate”, the easily programable autobidder, can take over for you while you are gone.
Bidazzled is certainly the friendliest and most equitable of the entertainment auction sites. “We stand apart from other sites” says David Brown, one of the companies founders “because of the quality experience we offer a bidder that did not win. We have in place our Bids Back and Buy Now programs that not only give a percentage of bids back depending on how you finish, but also allow bidders to apply all of their paid bids toward the purchase of the item within 24 hours of the auction’s close.”
“So if you spend 50 paid bids on a Nintendo Wii and do not win, you can still purchase the item, at a price discounted in full by your bid investment,” says Brown, who adds that limiting Bidazzled’s online auction availability to North America, and excluding Europe, greatly enhances the odds of a bidder winning. “It’s a win-win situation for the bidders. We provide a fun and entertaining site where bidders have a better opportunity to win items at just pennies on the dollar, but can still purchase them at a retail price – all while supporting a great cause.”
Not Too Good To Be True
“It’s important that people understand our business model and how it works” says Brown, “otherwise people see it as too good to be true which is not the case. We know we are going to lose money on most auctioned items but in most cases, offset that loss if and when losing bidders purchase the item (with full credit for paid bids) after the auction at a retail price as we buy at wholesale. Essentially we are very much like a retail store”. In an effort trim costs, we frequently make the auction winner an offer to buy back the auctioned item (at a discount).
Bidazzled.com is also a chance to help others in a BIG way. Bidazzled was born as a way to fund a charity, The Jimmy Ruch Fund. A close friend of Brown’s, Ruch was diagnosed and ultimately passed away from Small Cell Lung Cancer (SCLC) in October of 2008. According to Brown, getting reliable information and treatment options was frustrating for his friend, so much so that Ruch created a foundation to promote awareness, treatment alternatives and resources for SCLC. After covering operating expenses, the majority of Bidazzled’s profits go toward that foundation. The Ruch family now manages the tax-exempt charity. More information can be found at www.RuchFoundation.com.
Bidazzled helpfully incorporated multiple flash and video tutorials, abundant help pages and a quick start guide, “Bidazzled for Dummies,” to aid first-time visitors on how it works. The site currently has a clock counting down to the launch, which is scheduled for 3:00 p.m. EST, November 1, 2009. Ready – set – Bidazzle.