MERKOPOLIS: AN INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF LOCAL MARKETS
Date: Feb 23, 2010
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MERKOPOLIS: AN INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF LOCAL MARKETS
MERKOPOLIS.COM is a new portal open to the public in 2010. Translated into 11 languages, this platform offers its users the possibility to buy, sell, auction and exchange any article or product on the market, as well as distributing any cultural or social information on a free notice board organized in different territories.
The initiative emerges from the management team of SANESOCIETY.ORG and TALENTSEEKERS.NET with the aim of helping artists sell their own creations. However, not only works of art will be advertised. In actual fact, you will be able to find any article imaginable, as one of the objectives of Merkopolis is to help artists trade their works for other items they might need. With this method, Merkopolis expects that works of art which otherwise might not be sold will have an opportunity of reaching the market.
'Creating a platform which complies with all technical expectations whilst offering a maximum guarantee of security has not been easy. In fact, it has taken us five long years to achieve it', according to the Technical Director of the Project, César García. There are countless tools on offer, some of which clearly mark a difference with other similar projects. For example, vendors will not pay any commission for their sales, and purchasers can request, prior payment, the intermediation of Merkopolis to guarantee a satisfactory purchase. Only then will payment be made to the vendor. 'In this way the possibility of fraud, so widespread on the Internet, will be considerably reduced, if not eliminated altogether', concludes César.
All those who register at Merkopolis before the end of February 2010 will received a special gift token which will allow them to publish a free advertisement every day, indefinitely, thereby permitting the creation of an online shop with a personalised web address, equipped with the most modern techniques in electronic commerce, marketing and communication.
Merkopolis offers the following advantages:
• Sales with no commission ('Independent Sales').
• An intermediation service with the maximum security guarantee ('Merkopolis Sales').
• A communication centre for each client where all operations can be carried out in a simple and centralised manner.
• An online shop with your own personalised address and multiple sales system through a shopping cart.
• A sophisticated intranet where you will find all the necessary tools for making purchases / sales and marketing operations.
• Personal attention in your own language.
• Intelligent search tools (find exactly what you are looking for, by language, zone, sector, model, price, etc. and with exceptional precision).
• Sales methods adapted to your own requirements (fixed price, negotiable price, several identical articles, auction, exchange).
• A pleasant environment (no more browsing through complicated pages with zero artistic sensibility).
• One unique portal for all your articles (no more visiting ten portals in ten different languages to sell or find what you are looking for).
In words of its Managing Director, Arturo Tirador, 'We believe to have identified a real need in the market: the construction of a space where users feel truly at home and can buy and sell with complete security, in a pleasant environment, without paying any commission, with all the necessary tools for assistance in commercial transactions, together with direct access to a professional team that will offer them personal attention in their own language. A place, in addition, that is artist friendly and where art stops being an inaccessible luxury item and becomes within reach of anybody who is able to appreciate it. Now is the time to listen to the customer and see if we have done a good job'.
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