It is our pleasure to show you how much you can save!

We really want you to take a close look at everything listed. When you see how much it is really costing you to sell on eBay we know you will join us!

Let's start with the stores.

FeeBay		Yabexe.com
Store level	Their Fee	Our Fee
Basic	$15.95 / month	Free (10 Items)
Premium	$49.95 / month	$5.95 / month (25 Items)
Anchor	$299.95 / month	$49.95 / month (Unlimited Items)

Now, how about those other fees?

Insertion Fee
FeeBay: $0.10 - $4.00 (Varies with starting price)
Yabexe: FREE

Home Page Featured
FeeBay: $179.95 (Only Classified Ads on eBay Home Page)
Yabexe: $5.00

Category Featured
FeeBay: $24.95 (Only available to Top Sellers on eBay)
Yabexe: $2.00

Highlighted Listing
FeeBay: $2.00 (? - Depends on type of listing)
Yabexe: $0.50

Bold Listing
FeeBay: $2.00 - $4.00
Yabexe: $0.50

Images Upload
FeeBay: 1 free, $0.15 add'l
Yabexe: 2 free, $0.10 add'l

Add 2nd Category
FeeBay: Double Cost of 1st Category
Yabexe: $0.25

Reserve Price
FeeBay: $2.00 or 1% of over $200
Yabexe: $0.50

Custom Start Time
FeeBay: $0.10
Yabexe: $0.05

Want Ads
FeeBay: Not Available!
Yabexe: $0.50

Reverse Auctions
FeeBay: Not Available!
Yabexe: $1.00

And now the best part...

Final Value Fees

FeeBay vs. Yabexe in Auction Style Listings

Final Value Fees: Auction style
FeeBay			Yabexe.com
Closing Price	Their Final Value Fee		Our Final Value Fee
$0.01 - $25.00**	8.75% of the closing value	Almost 9% !	3.9%
$25.01- $1,000.00	8.75% of the initial $25.00 ($2.19), plus 3.5% of the remaining closing value balance($25.01 - $1,000.00)	Are They Serious?	3.5%
Equal to or Over $1000.01	8.75% of the initial $25.00 ($2.19), plus 3.5% of the initial $25.01 - $1,000.00 ($34.12), plus 1.5% of the remaining closing value balance($1000.01 - closing value)	:( Jesse James used a gun when robbing people!	3.0%

FeeBay vs. Yabexe in Fixed Price Style Listings

Final Value Fees: Fixed Price
FeeBay				Yabexe.com
Category	Sale Range	Their Final Value Fee		Our Fee / ALL Categories
Books, Music, DVDs & Movies, Video Games	$0.01 - $50.00	15.0% of the closing value	!	3.9%
	$50.01 - $1,000.00	15.0% of the initial $50.00, plus 5.0% of the remaining closing value balance ($50.01-$1,000.00)	!!	3.5%
	Equal to or Over $1,000.01	15.0% of the initial $50.00, plus 5.0% of the initial $50.01-$1,000.00, plus 2.0% of the remaining closing value balance ($1,000.01 - closing value)	!!!	3.0%

See The Improvement? Register Here!

We want to tell you that Yabexe is long forgotten Native American tribe whose writings, culture, and technology were more advanced than the Aztecs who came along 5000 years after them. We'd like to tell you they are credited with conceiving the concept of an auction.

We want to tell you that because it sounds really good for our website, but we can't.

Yabexe (pronounced: yay-beks-see) is simply "ex eBay" spelled backwards. Can't remember the name. Just think about what you are, or what you want to be... an ex-ebay member.

Simply put, other than being less costly, it isn't any different than eBay. Call it a clone, a duplicate, or a mirror image, but the features you find on eBay you will find here at Yabexe.

Want your own store? We got it and our Basic Store is FREE!

We also offer these additional items:

• Home Page Featured
• Category Featured
• Highlighted Item
• Bold Listings
• Relist Option
  
• Add 2nd Category Listing
• Reserve Price
• Buy Out Offer ("Buy It Now" is a Trademark of eBay)
• Custom Start Time
• Picture Uploading
• Easy Payment Methods
• Feedback Rating System
  

We also have some things eBay does not:

SWAP OPTION. Willing to swap your auction item for something of the same value? Let people know in your listing and choose the SWAP OPTION.

ANTI-SNIPING. Tired of eBay where with 1 second left someone with a faster computer comes in and steals your purchase out from under you. With our anti-sniping technology if anyone makes a bid in the last few seconds the auction is extended another 2 minutes so that you have time to make another bid if you want.

1 STRIKE AND OUT POLICY. (Those of us who are honest will love this.) We won't put up with scammers and cheats. eBay may close an account after numerous complaints, but we have a 1 strike policy. If we conclude a buyer or seller did not complete a transaction, or ignores our requests for information, we don't just close the account so they can reappear with a different name and email, as eBay allows - We ban their ISP address. They won't even be able to access the site to view it because their computer has been banned, not just their name.

Yabexe.com began as PoconoBay.com. Originally a medium for people in the area of the Poconos, in Northeast Pennsylvania to auction, buy, sell, give to one another, and even list yard sales on one website, without having to use multiple websites, or worry about being scammed by individuals outside the United States, or beyond a reasonable traveling distance - which does happen with such places as Ebay and Craigs list.

PoconoBay.com ran into a major problem with the hostserver on which the website resided. To make a long story short, the owner of the server closed his server down and we had to transfer our website to a new server with little time to do so. Some coding become corrupted and some was lost completely.

The answer was to begin again. This time with a better website and a solid business who would provide our server needs. Where the original website PoconoBay only cost a few hundreds of dollars to run per year and we could offer everything for free, Yabexe.com is far more involved, uses far more resources to run properly, and requires an extreme amount of bandwidth on the Internet. The cost, including advertising will run thousands of dollars per year. For this reason, we can only say that while listings can be made for free on this new site, some features we have had to request a small fee.

However, those fees are far lower than eBay, as you will see in our "Comparison" post.

Reverse auctions are where the roles of seller and buyer are reversed. It is most often used for services, rather than a specific item.

It allows the opportunity for people/businesses to make lower bids on the project or service you need performed.

For instance, you need your driveway black-topped. You would create a listing with all the information about the project you need performed.

You might add such things as:
Area Size (length x width)
Thickness of Blacktop
Completion Date Required
Payment Timeline (ie., 1/2 at start, balance at completion)
Photos of area
Request for References and locations of previous work performed.

This allows you to provide a potential contractor the opportunity to bid on your project. Another contractor may undercut that price for a number of reasons (closer to job site, schedule opening, etc.).

The scenario is that you will get a better price and are not committed to the lowest bidder. You can choose to go with any person who made you a price offer. This is beneficial to the bidders, as well. You may decide you want to go with a bidder because something in his bid information (even though he was higher than the lowest) made you decide so.

My email address won't be accepted. Why?

The reason is because it has likely been blocked as a "freemail" service. The majority of people (and we are not saying you) who scam use freemail as a means of contact. Though we understand that there are occasions when a freemail address is used (we have more than one for personal use) this website is not one of them.

Your information will never be sold, shared, or given to anyone else. Please use your primary email address when registering.

Currently, the forum is closed. This is a new website and to be honest, the forum would be a lonely place. Most people who join the site do not join the forum. In our past experience, only about 25% of registered users to a website will register on the associated forum. Don't ask us why. A forum is a great place to get some useful knowledge about the main website.

We are holding off making it available until such a time when we feel there are plenty of people to make the forum an active and enjoyable place for people to exchange intelligent thoughts and ideas. When finally opened (it sits ready and waiting) all members will be informed through a newsletter.

A number of reasons. The main one being that we are determined to reduce the cheap Chinese knockoff items that either don't work, don't fit, or aren't as described, from sellers who know that there is little a buyer can do about the situation. Those looking for such items should remain on eBay where they are abundant and the cause of many disputes.
Those selling such items should closely read the policies regarding knockoffs and listing rules.

The second reason is that shipping, customs restrictions, and laws regarding items being bought and sold are very similar between both countries. This makes life easier for everyone involved.

Pleas Note:
It didn't take long for some from overseas to show up and try to use this site as free doorway to their own websites. Of course, they were removed because their IP address showed their location, but their attempt to divert our visitors is something we ask everyone not to do. Please see our FAQ post regarding use of links and the registration process.

Since we are new we are monitoring the registered users very closely. We feel that participation from residents of the US and Canada will provide more than sufficient activity for a healthy website and will result in less disputes. Our Verified Seller Program is also more reliable with these members.

In time we may add a few other countries, such as England, but for now it will remain more manageable.

Registration
Registration is currently open to residents of the U.S. and Canada only.
Please do not register if you do not reside in these countries. We track ISPs and registering from outside our accepted countries will only result in you having wasted not only your time, but ours as well, for your ISP will be banned.

All information indicated as "required" during the registration process must be filled out. If you plan on becoming a Verified Seller from us, the information should be accurate.

If you do not see a message indicating a confirmation email has been sent, upon your submission of registration, please check the page for a message that will indicate an error, or lack of information you provided.

Upon receiving the confirmation email simply click the link provided and you will be allowed access to your user area.

Choosing a Username
DO NOT use your website name which includes the domain suffix as your username! This is not allowed.

This means if you have a website, "JoeHardware.com", you may create a username of "JoeHardware", but you may not create a username of "JoeHardware.com".

Also, free stores on our website is not intended for people to create links to products located on their own website. We feel this is trying to circumvent our system and simply being done to generate traffic from our site to yours. We are offering a free store. Please don't abuse the freebie.

If you wish to use links in your store you must upgrade to a paid store.

We ask you restrict your advertising to inserts placed in the items you ship, or purchase ad space on our website if you are running a free store.

The free store allows you to place up to 10 items in your own store without a store fee.

As mentioned in the FAQ regarding registration and usernames, there are some restrictions in using the free store.

As with all stores, you can not name it with a domain extension. That is, you can call it "JoeHardware", but you can not name it "JoeHardware.com" (or .net, .org, etc.).

You can not create links that redirect people from your store to another website from which you sell products. We are offering you a free store, not free advertising. Please restrict your promotional methods to inserts added to the items you ship.

If you wish to advertise your own website, please subscribe to a paid store, or contact us regarding display advertising on this website.

We want to hear suggestions from you! If there is something you think is missing to make our site better, or you are looking for another function to be added we will try, if it's possible.

These can include the addition of categories, or subcategories, among your thoughts for improvement. Remember that we are starting with the basics and as we grow, we know a number of additional areas may be needed, so just contact us through the contact link on the website.