First Virtual Auction House Opens Inside Second Life

September 7, 2007. Second Life, Bonghwang Sim. BidSL announced today that it will open its first auction house and auction venue in Second Life on Saturday, September 8th at 9:00am SLT. BidSL’s Second Life location features facilities to hold live, auctioneer hosted auctions and brings the ability for Second Life residents to auction off their own Second Life and real life items, creations, land, and services to other residents.

“We’re pleased to be able to bring the excitement of peer-to-peer online auctions into Second Life” said Jim Allen, spokesman for BidSL. “Second Life residents, who are familiar with traditional online auction services such as eBay, will find BidSL to work in much the same manner, but with the added fun of taking place in three dimensions.” “The three dimensional and voice enabled environment of Second Life also allows us the unique ability to have auctioneers run special live auctions along side the automated auctions that bidders located anywhere in the first life world can attend from the comfort of their own home”, said Allen.

Residents will find the process of listing or bidding on a BidSL peer-to-peer auction to be straight forward and logical. Anyone with something to sell/auction simply loads their item and item information into an available auction unit, and then other residents are able to touch the auction unit to place their bids. Thanks to the design of the auction units used at BidSL, once the automated auction has started the process of keeping track of bids, notifying bidders and seller of auction updates and delivery of the auctioned item is completely automatic. The script for the state of the art peer-to-peer auction units was developed specifically for BidSL by Ashley Petunia, known in Second Life for her M&S advertising vendors that are commonly seen being used to rent advertising space in clubs and malls in Second Life.

A companion website located at www.BidSL.com provides additional news and information regarding BidSL, its upcoming auctions, and a feedback and rating system to allow auction users to share information regarding completed transactions.

For further information, please contact:

Jim Allen
BidSL Second Life Manager
support@bidsl.com

BidSL is an auction services company involved in bringing peer-to-peer auction capabilities into the growing number of 3D virtual worlds.

This release was published on openPR.