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How Does Wigix Work?
Features
Can't find it from eBay
Can't find it from Amazon MerchantsFree Listing
Afraid of listing something but not selling in end? There's no fear involved with Wigix. It doesn't cost a penny to list your item on sale.
No Transaction Fees new
Selling on Wigix is completely free. Don't let another marketplace eat your profit.
No Hidden Fees
Ever sold something on eBay only to be surprised to find some weird fee tacked on after the sale? With Wigix, there are no hidden fees.
Easy Listing
Since each unique product has a single page in our catalog, it's easy to list that product for sale. There's no need to rewrite a general description for your item. Just describe your personal item and provide a price.
Sell an Item
Our Sell an Item wizard makes it easy to find an item and list it for sale from your personal portfolio or your Storefront inventory.
Most Wanted
What are the hot items? Our Most Wanted list shows the products that are watched by the most members.
Advanced Order Management
Every member has quick access to all their open Sell and Buy Orders. It's easy to see all your completed orders, pending orders and order tasks.
Reporting
You can format your inventory and account balance data as a time-specified report and download it as a PDF or CSV.
Account Management
All your payments, fees, deposits and withdrawals are kept in an easy-to-view balance.
Tracked Shipping Status
If an item shipped via UPS or FedEx hasn't been marked as received within two weeks, Wigix's system will automatically research the tracking number and see if it's been received.
Storefronts
High-volume sellers are right at home with Wigix. That's because Wigix Storefronts offer world-class web store presence with easy-to-use inventory and sales management.
Top Billing
With a "Stores" link right on our header, you'll be restassured that your Storefront is easily discoverable.
Shelves
Storefront Owners can easily organize their Storefront inventory into shelves through a simple two-click process.
Smart Shelves
Don't have the time to manually organize your Storefront inventory into shelves? Let the Inventory tool automatically shelve your items by criteria.
Low Stock Warnings
In your User Preferences > Seller Preferences you can set Wigix to notify you when your products become low on stock.
Use Your Own Domain Name
Have your own domain name? Assign it to your Storefront using our domain name option, and you'll get a special header.
Spread the Word
Super-enable your sell orders by extending the reach to Facebook, Twitter and Craigslist users.
Customer, Sales, and Accounting Reports
Build date-specific reports on your sales, inventory and customers based on criteria. You can even download them as PDF or CSV reports.
Customizable Storefront Design
Give your Storefront a personal touch by changing the color scheme.
Promo Builder
Upload your own image, video or Adobe Flash file as integrated promos in your Storefront. You can even use the sophisticated Storefront Promo builder to create your own!
Vacation Hold
Going on vacation and have no one to mind the store? Go to your User Preferences > Seller Preferences and place your open sell orders on Vacation Hold.
Until I Cancel
Wigix is a great place for casual selling. There's no reason why ordinary people have to place a hard deadline. Add an item and choose to list it "until I cancel."
ACH/eCheck
Don't like using Paypal or Google Checkout? Use eCheck to withdraw your earnings.
Fast and Accurate Search
With Wigix's structured catalog, buyers can find the product and price that they want quickly and easily.
Automatic Search Suggestions
From the moment you start typing in the search bar, you see a list of intelligently selected suggestions. Instant gratification at its finest.
Browse by Category
Wigix users can easily traverse through our catalog of over 2 million items.
Sift by Attribute
Finding a product to buy is many times easier when you can sift through search results and category listings. Wigix Category Experts and Page Owners have taken the time to build pages with carefully logged product attributes for you to sift.
List, Grid and Flip Views
Wigix engineers have built 3 ways to view product listings. The default list view makes it easy to compare product descriptions, while the grid view shows you more products in less space. Finally, Wigix's magical flip view spotlights each product.
Latest For Sale
Casual buyers can check out the latest products for sale.
Bargain Bin
Need to see items going for under $10? Our Bargain Bin lists great gifts with great value.
Price Comparisons new
Other marketplaces make you fumble through search results. Wigix lets you see all the available prices in one page. It's easy to find the right item from the right seller at the right price. You can even see prices from other web sites around the web, trusted partners like Amazon.com.
Ask the Owners
Have a question about a product? It's easy to contact owners of a product and get an answer.
Name Your Price
Want to buy an item, but not at the prices available? Just open a buy order at a price that you think seems fair.
Tagged Products new
Wigix allows you to tag a product with a keyword. Tag scores are affected by members, making for a truly community-driven cloud of related products.
Product Research
Each product page includes researched product specifications. Want to know how much a product weighs? How about its size? What about its MSRP? All of this and more is readily available in each complete page, courtesy of members like you.
Product Reviews new
Buyers care about other owner's opinions. That's why each product page includes review from our members and from popular sites from around the web. Be sure that the product you buy is worth your money.
Ratings
Don't have the time to write a full-fledge review? Wigix makes it easy to give your product a star rating with just one click.
Market Value and Price Histories
Wigix makes it easy to see previous prices, price trends and current market value of the products you want.
Paypal
You can use your Paypal account to pay for an item purchase or deposit money into and out of your Wigix balance.
Google Checkout
Because having one payment option is not enough, sellers can give you a second, with cheaper processing fees.
Amazon Payments new
Our third payment method add even more flexibility in payments.
ACH/eCheck
Want a more seam-less experience of transferring funds in and out of your Wigix account? Try our third option: ACH, which works just like checks, transferring funds directly in and out of your bank account.
Trust & Safety new
All users expect the ability to buy and sell safely. That's why Wigix's trust and safety system doesn't just incorporate user feedback, it also verifies important security information like their Paypal account and address.
Import your eBay Feedback Rating
Are you an eBay user? You don't have to sacrifice all that hard work that you've made gaining great feedback. You can import it into Wigix.
Favorite Storefronts
Drag and drop your favorite Storefronts in a shelf so you can access them quickly and easily in the future.
Watch Lists
Interested in a item, but holding it off for the future? Add it to your Watch List.
Owners also Own...
Great minds think alike. Wigix shows you other products that the owners have.
Videos
Anyone can attach related videos to a Wigix product page, making it easy to discover advertisements, how-to videos, and more.
Free Registration, Free Tools
It costs nothing to register. Wigix members can use My Wigix and browse the catalog at no cost.
Legacy Product Research
Have an old product that you'd like to know more about? Wigix's growing catalog of over 2 million products includes current and legacy products. Each complete page has product specifications for you to check.
User Manuals
Need help on an old product, but lost the product manual? You can upload or download product manuals to and from our vast catalog.
User Manual Search
Sift your search results to show only products that have user manuals.
Product Sharing
You can share product pages via Facebook, MySpace, Digg, Delicious, Stumbleupon, and more! You can even email it to friends, family or co-workers.
Tool Bar
Add the Wigix toolbar to your Internet Explorer 6+ or Firefox 2+ web browser for quick access to My Wigix, the catalog, and more.
Contests
Have fun by participating in the many monthly promotional contests, where you can win cash or prizes.
Contributions
See all your contributions--your pages, referred friends, and your categories--all in one place. It's easy to see how much you are earning.
Page Ownership
Wigix is a catalog created by members like you. When you submit a complete page, you take 5% of any ad revenue or transaction fees generated by your new page.
Submit a Page
It's easy to submit a page to the Wigix Catalog. Just use our easy 4 step wizard. You can even use our tool to submit pages similar to or in the same category of existing ones. Selling the item as well? The tool magically transforms to a Submit and Sell tool.
Category Experts (CEs)
Wigix is a catalog presided by members like you. Each leaf category is managed by Category Experts, members who make sure that page submissions are complete and accurate. In return, CEs earn 1% of any revenue (advertising and payment from our trusted partners) from the pages within their categories.
Category Expert Workbench
To help build and manage their categories, CEs have access to an advanced tool, called the Category Expert Workbench. From here, it's easy to change their category structure and attributes, and review all their page submissions.
CE Re-elections
CEs are elected to one year terms and run for reelection. All registered Wigix members can participate in the voting.
Certified Category Experts (CCEs)
CEs who are good at being CEs can vaunt their knowledge by passing our tests and becoming certified.
Virtual Paths
The Wigix catalog isn't as rigid as you might think. Product pages can exist in two or more places at once by virtue of virtual paths created by its CE.
Over 2 Million Products and Growing
The Wigix catalog has grown to over 2 million product pages, and is growing exponentially. That's over 2 million reasons to be a part of the Wigix experience.
My Wigix
My Wigix is your central point of activity. Here you can gain quick access to your portfolio, orders, watch list, account, profile, photos, friends, tasks and more.
Feed
All your activity, your friends' activity, and more: all concatenated in a simple stream for you.
Portfolios
Already own a product? Add it to your portfolio to keep track of its current market value. Portfolios are great for insurance purposes and finding out what possessions are worth selling.
Portfolio Privacy
Don't want the world--or even your friends--to know what's in your portfolio? Wigix has build-in privacy levels to make sure your portfolio is shown only to the people you want.
Photo Albums
Load up photos of yourself and your products in real life. Organize them into albums.
Label Your Stuff
off your stuff, insurance claims and solution selling, labeling is fun and easy.
Themed Communities
Because product owners need a place to commune, Wigix has built themed community areas that are geared toward specific categories of products, like parenting and books. With more coming soon, check out the growing communities already available.
Product Battles
To let buyers know which product is the better, and to let owners to vote and voice their opinion, we've built product battles into our Theme Communities. Vote and discuss the virtues of your product choice.
Ask the Experts
Leading each Wigix Theme Community are Community Experts. Wigix members can be a part of discussions aimed at members with special knowledge in the community they lead.
Recent Activity new
Wigix is your source of news and products for your favorite celebrities.
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Have a question for some of our celebrities? Ask them in their Celebrity pages!
Public Profiles
More than just another view of "My Wigix", your Public Profile contains a news feed of your recent activity, and views of your items for sale, items you want, your community activity, and your lists.
Profile Privacy
Don't want your Public Profile to be shown to everyone? You can set your profile to be visible to anyone, only Wigix users, or only your friends.
Friends
Add other Wigix members as friends. Once added, you can see their photos, portfolios, watch lists, and other recent activity. You can even find and invite your real-life friends by searching through your email lists.
Friend Referals
With each friend that you refer to Wigix, you can earn 4% of advertising revenues and transaction fees associated to any pages that you referred friend owns. Second generation referrals earn you 2%, and third generation referrals earn you 1%.
Forum
A complete online community requires the ability to have an active discussion about products and the website itself. Visit our Forum to be a part of the discussion.
Discussion Thread Tagging
Talking about a product, a few products or a category of products? You can tag the forum thread with keywords, and you'll see the related products marked with the same keyword.
Blogs
Have an opinion about a product that you'd like the world to hear? Write a blog.
Blog Tagging
Does your blog pertain to a product or a category of products? Just like tagging a discussion thread or a product itself, you can tag a blog with a keyword to see related products, blogs, and discussion threads.
Recent Activity
All your Wigix activity is concatenated into a feed for your friends' quick scanning.
Groups
It's natural for like minds want to gather. That's why Wigix has groups for you to join and discuss the products that matter most to you. You can even start a brand new group.
Messaging
Wigix has a built-in private messaging system, similar to email, for you to contact your friends.
Spread the Word
Everytime you buy or list an item to sell on Wigix you have the option of extending the reach of your activity to your Facebook Account or Twitter.
Twitter Feed
Follow our updates via our Twitter account.
My Wigix (Facebook App)
Publish your Wigix portoflio and all of your Wigix activity to your Facebook account feed.
What Should I Get (Facebook App)
Wondering which product to get. Get your Facebook friends' input by posting it to the "What Should I Get" and asking them to vote.
Tag Your Stuff (Facebook App)
Present all your Tagged Products on your Facebook profile too.
Facebook Group
Join the Facebook group made of WIgix members like you.
Facebook Page
Are you a Fan of Wigix? Add Wigix to your Facebook Pages.
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