Shopping and Auctions.
I like ...... Personal Shopping Auctions or Everyday Shopping & Auctions
•Shopping & Auctions – Clearly articulates what is offered on the site where consumers can buy and sell and engage in Auctions.
•Everything Else – A term that is intended to highlight that it is all things other than cars, bikes boats etc. There is a big difference between these two names above If we have to choose out of those two it would have to be .... Shopping & Auctions but as others have said people could think it's more about cars and parts etc Depends to I guess on how people might search from outside the the website in Google what words would they use.
I had a look at their other new section/site ....Realestate and it's nice from what I looked at that was just the front page. Cheers.
Well to be honest I don't like much at all about any of it. It's a case of ..............if you have nothing good to say, say nothing at all.......so I'll bow out gracefully.
Shopping and Auctions . . . but as the mouse hovers over the link it comes up with Click here for Household, Clothing, Pauls DVD's etc etc
Hi, One of the more important tasks in any name change is having a careful plan of not losing the good will and product identification already built up with the existing name. Many commercial organisation have done this but it is most often a 3 year change over period. It is usually done this way:
Oztion-Quicksales for about 1 year to 18 months
Quicksales-Oztion for at least 1 year to 18 months only then:
Quicksales
That is the low cost name change method.
Clearly such notions are now far too late to even be suggest. It then takes heavy commercial advertising on Free to air Television and other media (excluding preaching to the converted) to build a new customer base/product identity for “Quicksales” as the Oztion product identity will be lost the minute the name is dropped. I observe it is/was an identity that I hear only just recently being known of generally and that is a very long time after Oztion came to be.
That said, it isn’t the issue being asked about. Of the three suggestions, none are very good. I would suggest the following:
“General Merchandise & Auctions” specifically to get people to understand these are not necessarily car related – an issue NOT made clear with the only viable suggestion “Shopping & Auctions”. Ideally the good old “Oztion” should be included eg as per the initial suggestions for the name change. The term “shopping” is a very weak term that has no Ommmph or Pazaz but at least “General Merchandise” is a better descriptive term moving people from a “cars” mindset to a wider view of selling/purchasing.
Cheers,
Brookunga
As I observed earlier - Oztion does finally have an identity in the wider community of people selling on-line. I have had several people refer me to that site in the last 6 months - none before that had heard of it when I suggested it. I note the term being replaced already contains the word "General" and has a lot of space available after it. Perhaps the term "Merchandise" is a little stiff and formal, but it does imply better goods and general goods being sold. I see that as a good thing for sales. I would like it to include fonts (and colour) that makes it distinctive from the rest of the links, but I doubt that will happen. Cheers, Brookinga
The new Logo looks great, and you just have to click on it, or wait a moment and Oztion comes up. Marian
edit ~ it was in another forum today but has now been deleted!
