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Sometimes we wish IE had won

We're aware that a number of our lightboxes do not work in Safari 3; they used to work in Safari 2, but perhaps Apple broke something. 

We're looking into it, but for now, please bear with us and use Firefox or Flock if you're on a Mac.  (BTW, the staff at Dawdle all have MacBooks, so we're as upset as you are.)

Yay Hooray

So, you may have noticed something.  The New Year hit and we didn't activate our 50 cent listing fees.  Well, we noticed something interesting - people weren't making a bunch of fake listings even though they were free.  We never planned on trying to make money on listing fees - we credit them back when your item sells - we just wanted to make sure that people weren't listing things that they didn't have. 

But throughout November and December, people were really good about this.  People weren't listing stuff they didn't have.  No buyers complained that they didn't get what they paid for.  Turns out we worried for nothing.

So, if we weren't trying to make money on listing fees, and they're a pain in the butt for everyone anyway, why have them? 

So we don't.   Enjoy!

Belated Congrats

Posted while watching the Giants/Pats game...

A belated congrats to Eric G. of New York, NY for winning our Wii contest!  His odds were not good - many others had many more listings, but in the end, random() chose Eric. 

Thanks to everyone for their listings - keep them coming; we'll be doing surprise drawings for all sorts of stuff throughout 2008.  You never know when you may get an unexpected Priority Mail delivery from 60661.  And there are many more cool developments coming; keep your eyes peeled.

And Happy New Year!

Welcome to Dawdle!

Thanks for coming to Dawdle.  We've been busy little chipmunks to get up and running, and we're proud to have built the best marketplace for people to buy and sell their video games, game systems, and accessories online.

We wanted to highlight a few things we're particularly proud of:

• Search.  We've done a lot of work to make searching for your item as easy as possible and to get results to be as good as possible.  We've put some example searches underneath every search bar, so you can get a feel for what kind of searches work best.  Of course, you can still browse around if you want a more leisurely experience, but we make it easy to get in, do your thing, and get out.
• Our Product Pages.  This is where the magic happens - you can use our easy 1, 2, 3 step process to submit a bid.  Your bid is good on every single listing between when you place your bid and when it expires.  You don't have to come back over and over again to see if someone has it for sale.  Plus, it's easy to list an item to sell from here - just click on the big green button on the upper right of every Product Page.
• Our matching process.  When you tell us what you want (or have), we don't just search for exact matches.  We search for exact matches or better.  Better meaning better condition, higher seller rating, or a higher bid (if you're a seller).  And when we make a match between a bid and a seller's listing, we complete the transaction automatically.  This way, sellers get paid faster, so buyers get their stuff faster.  Our matching process means you'll never get sniped and you'll never have any unexpected shipping charges.
• MyDawdle. The Summary page includes a feed of all of your activity in reverse chronological order, just like an RSS or Facebook feed. You can easily jump around and see all of your activity and edit or remove your bids or listings at any time.
• Security.  We work hard to protect your info.  We've gone the extra mile for VeriSign's Extended Validation SSL certificate.  If you have IE 7 or the Firefox extension installed, your address bar will turn green on every secure page to show that you're on our servers.  We also use Yahoo! DomainKeys to sign our notification e-mails, so you know that e-mails that look like they're from us actually are from us.  (We're also particularly proud of the fact that our automated HTML e-mails render pretty nicely on BlackBerries.)  We're also a TRUSTe licensee, so you know that our Privacy Policy is up to snuff.

We've tried hard to make it simple to list items for sale and to bid on listings, so take a look around and let us know what you think.  We'll be on all the major forums, such as CAG and NeoGAF (that way you know we're not censoring anything) and we'll be pretty active on the blog.

Again, welcome, and Happy Dawdling!

Cheers,
The Dawdle Team