Pricing
Registration is free. Registration allows you to use certain features of this site
where your contact information is needed.
We send invoices monthly or quarterly at the beginning of the month due at the end
of the month. At this time we do not accept credit cards. Payment is made in US
dollars to Mountain Hawk Corporation that owns and operates the Steel Spider Website.
There is no charge for steel buyers to use Steel Spider. There is no charge
to use the following services relating to buying steel:
There is currently no charge to use the following services relating to selling steel:
We charge a seller a monthly or quarterly fixed fee to provide certain advertising
and sales lead services. For any of the services we charge for, we also
provide a trial period so you can evaluate any of the services prior to making a
committment.
Receive Inquiries
We charge a seller $100 US per quarter (or $40 per month) to receive Inquiries.
If multiple people in the same office all wish to receive Inquiries, we charge $200
per quarter. Sellers can receive Inquiries without charge for a period of time sufficient
to evaluate the potential value of these Inquiries to the seller. A seller can receive
inquiries without charge until we contact him. A seller will not be invoiced for
receiving Inquiries until after he authorizes us to invoice.
Spider Bites are messages sent through Steel Spider where a buyer is responding
to a specific item in the searchable Inventory. Spider Bites are not considered
Inquiries and there is no charge to send or receive a Spider Bite.
Border Ads
Sellers and others can have their company logo appear randomly on each page of Steel
Spider. The logo links to the seller's website or we can set up a Company Profile
page that the logo can link to is the seller provides the content for the page.
We charge $100 US per month to display your logo in a Border Ad. This also entitles
you to use the Automatic Data Entry.
Automatic Data Entry
Sellers using the
Automatic Data Entry
process can manage their steel by providing a file. This avoids the need to indivually
add each item using the form to
Add Steel to Multi-Supplier Inventory. The steel from the previous file
is deleted and the steel in the new file is added to the Multi-Supplier Inventory.
We charge $100 US per month to use the Automatic Data Entry process. This also includes
the ability of the seller to display a Border Ad. Let us know if you are interested
in a free trial of the Automatic Data Entry process.
If a Seller using the
Automatic Data
Entry process to post their steel in our searchable Inventory has one or
more people in his company at his location receiving inquiries we only charge for
one person receiving inquiries. Additional people in his company and at the same
office can receive Inquiries at no additional charge. This works out to $400 per
quarter regardless of the number of people at the subscriber's location receiving
Inquiries.
Setup/Run/Award Sealed Bid Auction
Our
Sealed Bid Auction
platform uses and builds on many of the features developed for Steel Spider. The
sealed bid auction process includes describing your auction and the steel being
auctioned, uploading a file describing your steel in detail, announcing your steel
using our Offering platform, selecting which bidders ae awarded steel, notifying
successful and unsuccessful bidders, displaying your logo as a border ad and using
the Automatic Data Entry process to add any unsold steel to the searchable inventory.
Signing up to use the Sealed Bid Auction platform enables a seller to use all of
the services on Steel Spider available to a seller for a flat fee of $300 per month.
Let us know if you are interested in a free trial of the Sealed Bid Auction platform.