Nice. I considered selling a house this way about six months ago, but I ended up selling it to a neighbor. Edit: One idea I had: allow people to reserve a spot on the calendar, perhaps with a deposit. You'll get the benefit of a traditional rising auction that way and it might avoid hard feelings if multiple people jump as the price falls a notch. Would you mind putting your code up on Github?
I will definitely do that in the future. Needs some cleaning up though since I built it and launched it in only a few hours. Rush job to get it on the Internet.
That is clever! Also you may want to ask the bidder to put down a deposit of earnest money so you know they are serious about their offer. If you like, you can post it on classifieds site HouseOfNothing and I will bulk post it to many other websites through Digi-Go ad submission service to give your ad more exposure.
Yeah, there is the risk that the bidder is just messing around with me, so the deposit might be a good idea. Thanks for the tips about spreading the news, that will definitely help.
I ran digital/social marketing for a major import car brand for two years up until Q4 of last year. We built something like this but, it was killed internally by an executive. It is a great idea and my studies say it will raise sales price on cars by 5-8% because of the "fear of losing out" principal.
I don't think it's a big deal. Not much theft, and otherwise what can people do with my licence plate? I drive around with it in public vision all day.
Craigslist, facebook, twitter, usedvictoria, and auto trader. No stats yet. I will post on my blog at http://cvanderlinden.com with the results of this experiment.