SINGLES can now auction themselves on-line in a bid to find true love.

Just when you thought you'd tried and tested every dating trick in the book along comes buymebay.com. The novel website- designed by a former midwife -allows members to put themselves up 'for sale' or bid on others..

Peterborough, UK (PRWEB) June 28, 2004 -- www.buymebay.com is a website which gives a completely new twist to finding love online. Members can put themselves up 'for sale' or bid on others who are 'auctioning themselves off' to the highest bidder.

Email addresses only are for sale. Members can also chat and flirt in the 'Flirtzone' before making their final bids on their object of
desire. Free polyphonic ringtones for members are also on site, as well as a retro-games arcade section. Joining up is free.

BuyMeBay has brought the thrill of bidding and selling on an auction site to the world of dating.

Members simply put a picture and a description up on the site and other members are invited to bid for the chance of getting to know the
auctionee better. Bidding starts at just 1.00 and is capped at 30.

Other dating sites all start with the premise that if for example, Julie wants to find love, then Julie should pay expensive fees to read replies or access emails sent to her by interested parties. She cannot pick and chose which replies interest her and no contact details are ever revealed to her other than an email address.

Buymebay turns this notion on its head, and asks only that the interested parties should pay for the chance to chat to Julie, not the other way round. She won't pay a penny. She again receives an email address at the end of the process but this time she knows whoever won her auction, has watched her auction countdown, outbid other interested parties and paid for the chance to chat to her. This sorts out who is genuinely interested in her and who is just trying their luck.

Members are limited to one auction at a time, but can bid on as many auctions as they like.

Also of course, the real and thrill of taking part in an auction environment is well proven. It is an exciting and fun thing to do
online and Buymebay think dating should be too.

BuyMeBay went live only a few months ago but has over 1000 members in the Auction Site and 300 of these regularly chatting and flirting with
other members in the 'FlirtZone'. At the moment any member who posts 100 times in the 'Flirtzone' can start using the Personal Messaging service offered. This also gives members another way of chatting privately, swapping email addresses and also offers a way of building up a lively community for all members to enjoy. Again this is free although members can pay to subscribe if they wish to Personal Message another member sooner than 100 posts.