Auctionbytes-NewsFlash, Number 2232 - February 26, 2010 - ISSN 1539-5065      | Next Story CQout Moves into U.S. Market, Targets Disaffected eBay Sellers By Ina Steiner AuctionBytes.com February 26, 2010

Online auction site CQout has is setting its sights on disaffected eBay sellers as part of its U.S. expansion, a decision it made based on customer demand. CQout Managing Director Siamak Bashi said, "We have recently celebrated our 10 year anniversary of providing auction services to UK where our reputation for trust and security is second to none which has helped us to grow to become one of the largest auction service providers. Our plans are now to continue our growth by providing tailored services to our US customers. We believe auction users in the U.S. deserve a better service than they are currently getting from eBay." CQout has designed landing pages for visitors coming from outside the United Kingdom, launching pages for four other English-speaking countries and displaying prices in local currency: United States, Ireland, Canada and Australia. The U.S. auction service is fully integrated with the rest of CQout auction operations, so when a seller lists their items on the U.S. site, they can automatically be shown and made available to international buyers from any country the seller chooses via a tick box selection on the selling form. The sellers products are seamlessly displayed and sold in the seller's chosen currency, but prices are also displayed automatically in the buyers' home currency. The CQout in-house payment systems SecurePay and EasyPay are also available to all CQout buyers and sellers from any countries where Visa and MasterCard are available. Siamak said, "We recently had the owner of U.S. movie poster website who wanted to run their own auction site. But rather than go through the expense of buying software and hassle of running an auction site they asked us if we would tailor our services for their site. Within days we had an auction service running on their site." CQout said its no-listing fee policy is has proven particularly attractive to medium to large sellers, which means they can list thousands or even tens of thousands of items on CQout at zero cost, garnering additional exposure at no additional cost. The company made an animation, which can be viewed here to help new users pronounce its name (which sounds like Seek You Out). It will be shown to first-time visitors to the site.