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Bonanzle spring-cleans and hits new highs

Bonanzle’s “Buy” page had been bugging Bill Harding due to the left-side boxes looking antiquated, and having a secondary search box (confusing), some “browse by” choices that did not separate cleanly from the choices below the Bonanzas box, and an annoying requirement of making a buyer click twice to get to some of the most [...]



oops – Hand Picked Lists Expired Early

Bonanzle Bill has had an “oops moment”.
He’s blogged, “While doing some routine maintenance to the Bonanzle database this evening, there was an unexpected error that caused hand picked lists created in the last week to expire early (i.e., now). Though the lists are supposed to expire after two weeks anyway, our apologies to those [...]



Heavy snow keeps Bill on the go

Bonanzle’s Bill Harding has blogged that he’s going through some of the coldest weather on record, complete with two snow storms that have already happened, and a third one scheduled to arrive over the  weekend just past.
Apparently he’s always been a big fan of the “snow day” (a day when it is officially not possible [...]



Bonanzle tests new servers and back-end software

Bonanzle put out a call to its members last week to help the tech team test new servers and back-end software by putting it under load.
Things must have gone reasonably smoothly because on Tuesday Bill Harding blogged -
Going to take a first stab at upgrading main server to this new one at 9 PM PST [...]



Bonanzle Buyers get Hand-picked Personal Favourites

Earlier this week I posted about personal wish lists in a shared Sociable Shopping context, little did I know at the time that Bonanzle had just previously rolled out a new version of their own.  (Also, watch out for a new post later today called, “What Personalised Search Means for SEO and Your Website”, which [...]



Bonanzle Boosts Benefits for Buyers and Sellers

The Bonanzle Boys have been hard at it again, their blog reports another fistful of site improvements arriving alongside the workload of keeping the site stable during the pre-Christmas peak. Most of the improvements are stated as having come about due to user requests.  Full marks to them.
Amongst completed improvements are -

Checkout 2.0 – Many [...]



Bonanzle Nominated as Top eBay Alternative

Bonanzle has been nominated as a Top eBay Alternative in the  Small Business Computing 2009 awards.  These awards are voted for by users, which has the possibility to mean the sites with the biggest membership will win, so it’s important to cast your vote if you have a favourite site.
Bonanzle are up against some very [...]