Easter Auction Hunt

Our special promotion for Easter - one day auction, $1 minimum bid, but we hid it. Just like a good old fashioned Easter Egg Hunt!

Good luck!

Win Something In March!

By now you (hopefully!) know that all through March we're holding a special contest. Whoever can refer the most people to boocoo wins one of four prizes:

• Week 1: Apple iPad 2
• Week 2: Kindle Fire
• Week 3: Nook Tablet
• Week 4: Apple iPad 2

The person who refers the most visitors to boocoo each week will win the prize. To participate just visit boocoo and log into your account, then copy your special link. Post your personalized link anywhere you want, and every person who clicks your link counts as one referral!

Get more details on the contest rules and prizes, or learn how to enter.

We thought we'd take a moment to help everybody out, and give you some ideas on where and how to post your links. Remember, sharing your link in a variety of different places increases your chances to win.

Facebook/Google+/Twitter/Social Media: Social media is one of the more obvious places to share your link. No need to hide what it is - flat out ask your friends, family and followers to check out boocoo and help you win a prize! Anyone who registers for boocoo can participate, so they might want to try to compete with you too. Just copy your link from boocoo and paste it in as your status update. Don't limit yourself to Facebook - you could also post links to Google+, Twitter, StumbleUpon, Reddit, LinkedIn or lots of other places.

Your Blog or Website: If you have a blog or a website you can definitely put up a link to boocoo, so that when people click it they access your personalized link.

Email: Copy your link and paste it into an email, then send it out to your friends or your mailing list. Ask recipients to click your link and help you win.

Text Message: That's right, text message! If you have a smartphone you could paste your personalized link into a text message and send it out that way. Your friends can click the link right from their phones.

In Print: We know, some people might consider this to be an "old school" approach, but if that's what you want to do it'll absolutely work. Print your link out and post it somewhere or give it to your friends on a little card. As long as they get your link they'll help you win!

Edit: The winner of week 1 of our contest also had a great idea. He ran a small contest for his own friends, family and customers, with a small giveaway for everyone who used his link. Just another idea on how to win!

That's all we can come up with right now. Can you think of any ideas we missed? Tell us about it in the comments below. And make sure to visit boocoo to learn how to enter. The first week ends Saturday, March 4, so share those links and win!

boocoo Q&A - Can sellers bulk upload products?

You can absolutely have your listings uploaded in bulk to boocoo, but currently there is no program that will allow sellers to do this themselves.

boocoo staff can upload your products into our system, and (of course) there's no charge for this. We can even copy your listings from many other sites, if you've already done the work involved in putting together your product descriptions.

In some cases we can also sync with other sites, so that if an item is sold elsewhere it is removed from boocoo. As we are not able to directly access your accounts on other sites this is a one-way sync - we can remove items from boocoo that sell elsewhere, but we cannot close your listings on other sites if they sell on boocoo.

If you are interested in bulk uploading products to boocoo just contact us and we can help. If your listings already exist on another site you'll probably just have to provide us with your boocoo username, a link to your store, and your PayPal email address. Often this is the only information that we need to get started, but we'll work directly with you in the event that we need more details.

If your products are not already available on another site we may have to work together to get your product data into a spreadsheet, which we can then use to upload to boocoo.

Contact boocoo staff for bulk uploading services

boocoo's Open to Canada (mostly)

boocoo is now open to our Canadian friends!

Well....boocoo is now mostly open to our Canadian friends.

We're ironing out a few kinks this week, but pretty soon things should be set and good to go.

Welcome to boocoo!

boocoo Q&A - Where does the name boocoo come from?

I don't know why it took us so long to answer this Q&A question! It's something people have been asking since day 1 - where does the word "boocoo" come from? Did we make it up?

Our name is based on the French word "beaucoup" (pronounced bo-koo) which means "in abundance" or "a large quantity." The term was brought to the United States by veterans of the Vietnam War.

Long before the war Vietnam was actually a French colony, and with that came a mingling of language and culture. French words were used by Vietnamese citizens - hence "beaucoup" becomes something more similar to "boocoo," when pronounced by a Vietnamese citizen.

American soldiers picked up the slang term and began to use it as well, and when they returned to the United States after the war this term came with them. "boocoo" - an American pronunciation of a French word, as pronounced by Vietnamese citizens.

Who knew the history of one word could be so interesting?