What's New
2007.2.8
Shopping Online
- when you can't find what you're looking for in Kitsap
Click here for amazing shopping!
2007.1.16
Monthly View
- you can select the monthly view to get a bigger picture of the events. To get detail about an event in this view, either click on or hold the mouse over the event.
2006.10.19
NEW Events Category
Garage Sales- yard sales, rummage sales, local auctions, etc. Event listings are free.
If you're planning a garage sale, try pre-listing items in the Auction Shopping and have people pick things up the first day of the garage sale. No commissions and it's free to list items under $100.
2006.10.13
Local Resources.
NEW - local resources section just added.
2006.10.12 We need your help finding events, people who want to sell or buy items, and businesses that want more exposure. Tell your neighbors, tell your friends - tell everyone!
2006.09.18
Get an individual calendar for your organization.
Click here for more information about getting an individual calendar!
Around Kitsap Help - Auction Shopping Benefits & Features
Why do YOU want use the Auction Shopping?
• Open 7 days a week, 24 hours a day.
• Locate a trustworthy business.
The customer feedback system lets you show off your extraordinary business! High ratings translate into customer trust!
Where else in Kitsap can you see this kind of feedback?
• Meet the person you're doing business with. Buying local gives you the choice of buying from your neighbors.
• Find unique products in the Kitsap area! Handmade items, garden plants and produce, art, music,
services for home maintenance or your business- look for it on Around Kitsap! Even better - sell it here!
• Bigger assortment when it's local. Imagine buying a refrigerator or a pile of wood from a big auction site.
• Buyers and sellers can enjoy a sense of community, while enjoying the high-tech benefits of convenience,
safety, and comfort that come with web shopping.
• Arrange local pick-up and delivery! Because it's hard to put a bicycle, a pile of wood or a bronze yard ornament in a box.
• Turn your spare room into an office and guest room.
Sell what's in there on Around Kitsap and then find what you need on Around Kitsap.
Register now to start selling today!
Special Seller Benefits
• Sell products while you sleep! No waiting by the phone -
you can sell products in the Around Kitsap Auction Shopping while you sleep,
golf, go to little league games or while running your business.
• Don't feel like doing a garage sale? Sell it on Around Kitsap or
pre-sale the items and have people pick them up during your garage sale!
• Sell your products part time or full time. Sell them in the morning, sell them in the night.
• Set your own hours.
• Not sure what to charge for those products you're selling while you sleep?Sell auction style or fixed prices. Your choice. Same Cost.
• Earn extra cash for yourself, your family and/or your business.
• Have you dreamed of starting your own business? Launch it today on Around Kitsap!
• No waiting by the phone - you can sell products while you sleep, golf,
go to little league games or while running your business.
• Avoid shipping hassles for those heavy/awkward items that can't fit in a box. And no shipping peanuts under the couch.
Instead, you can drop off, pick-up or meet in the middle - you control how and when you want it to happen.
• Is your business already on the web? Expand to Around Kitsap - even create a link to your existing website!
• Feel like taking summers off to play? Your listings can be there for one day or one year (same cost),
a great option if you want to take summers off to play (works best with fixed prices).
• Test your new product line for best price, color, most effective marketing slogan, etc.
• For those of you using the 'big auction' website, your products won't get 'lost' among all the other listings.
• Avoid the lines at the post office. Meet people.
• Park your car in your garage again. Or make room for that new car and boat.
Register now to start selling today!
What could you be doing while your products are selling on Around Kitsap?
• Play golf.
• Tell all your friends you own your own store.
• Create a new product line.
• Run your business.
• Spend some serious time doing arts and crafts.
• Go to a ball game.
• Make/find more products to sell.
• Sleep.
Some great features of the Around Kitsap Shopping Center:
• Automatic e-mails informing buyers and sellers.
• Sniper protection.
• Multi Image Uploads
• Flexible Start Date and End Date - sellers can choose the exact start and/or ending date of an item
• Profiles - Sellers can tell potential clients about themselves, their products and their business
• Add To Watch List - Registered users can bookmark items to their watch list
• Renew Listing
• Auto Relist - Users can choose the number of times they would like their item to be posted if it does not sell
• Bulk relisting - relist and organize your listings all in one location
• Storefronts - Users can create their own storefront complete with logo, HTML description and their own category style listings
• WYSIWYG Listing Editor
• View Seller's Other Items
• Q&A Messagebase - when users ask the seller a question it is posted to a message board on the listing page where the seller can publicly reply
• Bulk feedback
• Advanced Search - Users can now fine tune their searches with a number of new parameters including custom item fields
• Proxy Bidding
• Dutch Auctions
• Reserve Price
• Buy It Now and Fixed Price - buyers can purchase an item or items immediately using "buy it now"
• Mail This Auction to a Friend: Users may use the built in email feature to send item links to their friends.
• Classifed Ads