The Phenomenal Growth Of The Bonanzle Marketplace

"BONANZLE GOING VIRAL

Seven months out of Beta, Bonanzle surges past 50,000 registered users and becomes the second largest eBay alternative marketplace - in the same week

Kirkland, WA, April 26, 2009 - Just seven months out of beta, Bonanzle has continued to climb the ranks as one of the brightest stars of ecommerce, surpassing 50,000 registered users and 1.7 million unique items in the same week.

Innovative tools, simplicity, and an emphasis on non-generic inventory have attracted over 13,000 sellers to Bonanzle since its September 2008 launch. These sellers have taken it upon themselves to spread the word about Bonanzle amongst their friends and fellow sellers, intent on building Bonanzle into the largest marketplace for finding "everything but the ordinary." Thanks to their efforts, Powersellersunite now shows Bonanzle to be the second largest eBay alternative marketplace, with more than 1.7 million unique items available for purchase."

Bonanzle going viral - second largest eBay alternative surges past 50,000 users - Author: Walt AuctionWally

"What do you get when you take the time-consuming, tedious listing process out of auction sites, toss in some cool features, such as on-the-fly image-cropping and live chat, mix it up with a price and description estimator and, really, more features than one should list in an opening sentence?

You get Bonanzle - an eBay alternative that is quite simply, the best I've seen in my four years of reviewing and writing about start-up marketplaces aimed at taking sellers away from eBay. "

Bonanzle: The Best eBay Alternative We've Seen
By Vangie Beal July 30, 2008
ECommerce-Guide

"One of the fastest growing eBay alternatives just hit a major landmark and chances are you've never heard of them. Bonanzle, which combines an online marketplace with social media features, has now had one million items posted to their site - an impressive feat given it just launched late last year.

Bonanzle: Social Media's Quickly Growing Alternative to eBay
January 27, 2009 - 1:43 pm PDT - by Jennifer Van Grove"
Mashable

"The runaway winner in the eBay Alternative category is Bonanzle. This start up combines an easy listing process with cutting-edge features such as on-the-fly image cropping and live chat and an avid seller community. The founders are scaling up to meet increasing traffic, and we can only hope it continues to thrive. "

2009 Awards: Readers Pick the Best Small Business Tech Tools
By SmallBusinessComputing.com Staff
February 2, 2009

Bonanzle is sweeping across e commerce in phenomenal haste as the result of a winning strategy in e commerce and a community eager to introduce Bonanzle to the rest of the world. This is the progress to date-