Passion for vintage - new 'Vintassion' website launched

An online multi-seller marketplace for vintage stall holders was launched on 22nd February 2013 by online database application specialists, Evergreen.
 
CHARFIELD, U.K. - March 12, 2013 - PRLog -- Sharing a passion for vintage, Martin Evans and his wife, having attended many vintage fairs across the UK were looking for the best outlet to sell their brand of classic and collectable vintage items online to compliment the fairs they were attending. Sites such as E-Bay, Gumtree and the like had good online selling features but were too generic to do their 'Vintybits' brand and others like theirs justice and far too expensive to advertise in. Spotting a gap in the market for an affordable multi-seller website for vintage stall holders, Martin's concept for 'Vintassion', which stands for 'passion for vintage' was born. He approached bespoke software development specialists Evergreen (see http://evergreencomputing.com/) to create a custom website with advanced functionality to enable him to launch his new start-up online vintage fair.

http://www.vintassion.com/ is the primary marketing tool for this new vintage business and is a "virtual vintage fair" where sellers can easily set up their own online stall and list vintage and retro items for a simple fixed fee over a fixed selling period and customers can, at their leisure, search the entire fair to find and buy items of interest direct from the online stall holders. So both stall holders and customers need not miss out any more when they can’t squeeze in enough time to go to all the vintage fairs they’d like to...

As this was a start-up company, Evergreen were required to build the website from scratch from a very detailed brief and Martin leant on Evergreen's expertise and experience in developing the detailed functionality of the website, including the search functionality to the customer, the customer review systems, the paginated sellers directory listing active items on the site and so many other different facets and how they would function. The online database application (see http://evergreencomputing.com/online_software) built by Evergreen is complex but simple to administer and there are no limits to the number of sellers, items, reviews, customers or banners that can be stored on the website and underlying database.

A website with the right look and feel and easy to use.
The look and feel of the website was very important as it had to appeal to a discerning audience who were as passionate about vintage as Martin was. The site had to contain items from retro to collectables and it was important that an artistic balance was achieved.

Martin also readily admits that through Evergreen's vast experience, they were also able to manage his expectations from the start, offering guidance on realistic time frames and budgets for what he wanted to achieve prior to launch, whilst discussing a further list of enhancements that could be made in future phases of development. Further enhancements will include a more sophisticated newsletter system to dovetail into the existing vintage fairs, a noticeboard section, so sellers can promote which fairs they will be attending and developing the e-commerce section of the site further.

Martin praises the work that the Gloucestershire web based software development company has done to get the project off the ground by saying, 'Evergreen have truly done a great job in meeting our brief and have developed from scratch a website with the right look and feel, and ease of use that we were looking for.'

On 22nd February 2013, there was much excitement as Vintassion.com was made 'live' and the online vintage fair was declared open to an online audience of those who are looking for an advertising medium for their unique pieces and those who are searching to buy. Whilst it is early days yet to gauge the full success of the site, with Evergreen having now created a platform on which to build up the online vintage fair, the signs are encouraging and the initial feedback has been very positive from vintage fair traders and potential customers alike.

For further details contact info@evergreencomputing.com or martin@vintassion.com
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