EBay Is Costly; Craigslist Is Unsafe; What's The Solution?

Online, January 16, 2011 (Newswire.com) - In the Facebook era, we collaborate and communicate using reliable and trustworthy social online platforms to share our information. U.S. online sales volume reached a record $32.6 billion during the 2010 holiday shopping season, up 12% from a year earlier, according to data com Score Inc. released Jan. 5, 2011. But the classified listing lacks on this new way people collaborate and do business online. Among popular classified listing web sites like Craigslist (partially owned by Ebay) are risky and fraud prone, where as Ebay is very expensive. Online consumers deserve better but what are the available alternatives?

Boynton Beach, Florida based innovative company VoCrateList.com, a social web application Development Company, offers an alternative to this problem. VoCrateList.com launched its new Classified Listing site which authenticates validity of its members using their credible information like credit cards, phone numbers, valid corporate and student email accounts before allowing them to do business on the web platform. Cost is only $1.99 per year to its members (students join free) to validate their authenticity, a cost that can be free once they recommend 2 new members and the site does not store user's credit card information. The website is the first to have core functionality of membership and similar interest group for social marketing. This solution is revolutionary, affordable and safe.

Alternative to Craigslist and EBay

Although Craigslist is a gigantic free classified ad service and many people use Craigslist to sell or giveaway their second hand merchandise, more people are reporting issues like fraud, scams, fake ads, anonymous accounts etc. VoCrateList.com has solved this problem by only allowing genuine users to do business in its online social platform. VoCrateList.com is all about bringing back security and confidence to the online classified listing industry.

EBay's online transactions are costly and involve various complex steps to calculate actual cost of their service. eBay can charge up to 8% , 12% or 15% depending on the items. According to eBay's web site, if a user sells Books, DVDs & Movies, Music, Video Games with a sale price of $1000.00, he/she will end up paying eBay exuberant $55.00 for that transaction (refer http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/fees.html#if_auction ). VocrateList.com comes with a solution by offering its individual members a flat $1.99 per year fee to do business. VocrateList.com charges introductory $15 per month for its business members to perform unlimited services such as sell, buy, rent, and lease, post deals/coupons and promote business.

How VoCrateList.com does this?

Vocratelist.com is a secured and verified member based website that combines the classified listings with social touch, the first of its kind. It provides a reliable & affordable way to list, buy & sell. The members can post their classifieds listings, deals, coupons & promotions to highly flexible location options (within a city, a county, a state or within the entire country) or to focus groups.

Again Vocratelist.com is first of its kind classified listing site to offer option to have 'Group' functionality serving three powerful social functions. First, the active members can start groups within their areas of interest and become group owners. These groups will be powerful tool for the people with similar interest to collaborate for sales, deals & promotions. Second, it allows members to create private groups to market the deals to selected or preferred customers. Third, Vocratelist.com is the first of its kind listing website to offer group creation functionality that promotes wholesale opportunities that do not exist in any other sites including Amazon, eBay or Craigslist.

VoCrateList.com is also the first website that has pre-built groups for schools and corporations. School students can post within their school and corporation employees can post within corporation. These classified can be changed easily to be viewed by everyone, if the user chooses to do so.

This revolutionary social marketing, retail sales and wholesale tool makes the online deals, classified listings and sales more reliable, collaborative and affordable.

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