Furthermore, like competitor edeal , boxLot has followed the lead of FairMarket and adopted a network approach. The new engine is additionally slated to power other affiliate sites. In early March, boxLot also introduced a new look and interface. Despite our skepticism, the frames interface worked surprisingly well. For ease of bookmarking, the frames turn off when viewing an actual auction listing.
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In terms of the site's inventory, there are not a lot of surprises in the general auction categories. The sports and computer categories had the highest numbers, sports with 8,082 listings and computers with 6,743 listings. Some of the thinner categories included dolls and figures at 139, and paper, cards, and ephemera at 14. To get a sense of the site's bidding activity, we checked out the hardware section of the computer category, which listed 5,021 auctions. A look at the auctions that had closed within 24 hours revealed 103 auctions with bidding on 65 of them.