Most importantly, cardauctionz is the best place to buy splinterlands cards because it gives
the LARGEST discount for using them. Can't stress that enough.
In addition to just buying cards there, it has the unique feature of offering bid fee auctions.
These are really just gifts(heavily discounted cards) because of the low amount of eyeballs on them(lack of competition).
My proposal is to promote the market side of it hard with your much-appreciated help. Then how will we work with the auctions? The reason for this post.
When we look over the auctions if they were to actually go close to break-even we could just
increase the value of the cards for you guys. If we were able to offer close to break-even auctions on big value cards I think that is when the fun really starts. People take an interest in $500.00+ cards!
The difficulty with this type of site is that many people will not promote the site by word of mouth because they don't want the extra competition in the auctions. However, if you see that we intend to increase the value of the cards and offer more auctions I hope promoting doesn't scare you. Remember, you are giving the splinterlands player the best possible deal on the puchase of a card when they use the market.
If I'm being fully transparent then I would say I bet some are concerned that a few people can't handle losing the auctions. Some can't and they'll just have to understand the auction fun is just not for them. I've already gone ahead and fully described bid fee auctions transparently
https://peakd.com/splinterlands/@marcuswahl/the-cardauctionz-com-project-explanation-and-future-in-the-hive-community
It's worth noting that we DO NOT make money on the auctions. We without a doubt lose on them. I would think currently as of 5/8/2021 directing someone to use the auctions would be positive roi, but being fully transparent, you monitor competition going into the future. At one point I noted @thegcc
stating more competition was coming. The market is what keeps the site going currently.
How do we make cardauctionz a splinterlands asset? If we were to auction cards from other games or nft's the market of the site opens a lot. Could the site then funnel players into splinterlands?
Possible Improvements to Cardauctionz:
Graphics and Animation
Backend to handle other items
Baby steps of success help make this site not incur an extreme monetary risk.
I'll leave you with the largest priority of the site which is promoting the market and I hope
you'll jump on board with that as you're giving any splinterlands player the largest possible discount
Your help is appreciated as we make Splinterlands the king of blockchain games, as I'm emotionally and financially invested in them a lot.
Posts about the market:
https://peakd.com/splinterlands/@marcuswahl/what-are-you-missing-at-splinterlands
https://peakd.com/splinterlands/@marcuswahl/the-lowest-possible-price-on-a-splinterlands-zaku-anywhere
https://peakd.com/splinterlands/@marcuswahl/record-setting-cash-back-reached-at-cardauctionz-s-new-splinterlands-card-market
https://peakd.com/splinterlands/@marcuswahl/splinterlands-card-math-is-easy-more-cards-equals-better
P.S. I've been creating a very large giveaway game:
https://peakd.com/splinterlands/@marcuswahl/final-card-is-here-free-to-play-and-collect-a-real-money-valued-prize