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The Bumblebee User Group Meeting

The Bumblebee User Group Meeting. Nick Browne Coraider Services September 11 th , 2007 nbrowne@coraider.co.uk 020 8417 0625 www.coraider.co.uk. General Plan. A.M: News and system developments P.M: System overview and discussion Introductions. The Bumblebee System. Two functions:

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The Bumblebee User Group Meeting

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  1. The Bumblebee User Group Meeting Nick Browne Coraider Services September 11th, 2007 nbrowne@coraider.co.uk 020 8417 0625 www.coraider.co.uk

  2. General Plan • A.M: News and system developments • P.M: System overview and discussion • Introductions

  3. The Bumblebee System Two functions: Advertising found and recovered property on the Internet to try and reunite it with its rightful owners.www.virtualbumblebee.co.uk Police Internet auctioning of found, recovered and forfeited property (as well as superfluous assets) www.bumblebeeauctions.co.uk

  4. Origin • November 1997:A huge collection of stolen property is on public display as part of Operation Bumblebee.More than 20,000 items are being exhibited at Epsom racecourse in Surrey. The haul includes paintings, jewellery and silverware recovered in surprise police raids.BBC

  5. Press since last meeting • Build your own bike: Guardian March 3rd 2007 • 10 Ways to become richer: Sky News Website: June 2007: No Longer Available • Be a Brainy Bidder: The Times: 18 June 2007 • Bag a bargain with police auction website : Argus March 2007: No Longer Available • Liverpool Daily Post: Feb 2007 • Cambridge Evening News: Jan 2007

  6. TV and Radio Coverage • 3rd July, 2003, VB on BBC • Solent TV: Operation Marmora: September 8th, 2006 • Solent TV: Operation Marmora October 4th, 2006 • HertBeat Radio: October 17th, 2006. • Meridian Tonight - South - Monday 18/12/06 • Art Theft in the South: 19th January 2007: Inside Out. • Police Car Auctions: 14th August 2007: The One Show

  7. Impact of The One Show on Site Visits

  8. Financial Investigation Units • Bumblebee Auctions is also now the preferred method for Sussex Police's Financial Investigation Unit to dispose of cars obtained under Confiscation Orders in asset recovery through the Proceeds of Crime Act. • Asset recovery through the Proceeds of Crime Act remains one of the Government’s key strategic criminal justice objectives and challenging rising targets continue to be set. For the current year, Sussex has been set a confiscation order volume target of 95 and a value target of £2.167m. This represents increases of 102% and 69% respectively over last year’s targets.

  9. Advantages for FIUs • Bumblebee Auctions consistently raises higher returns than conventional auctions • Bumblebee Auctions is demonstrably fair.

  10. Headline Growth Figures Alexa UK Traffic Ranking: • Feb 2007: 6,800. • Sep 2007: 3,574 • Nearly 42,000 auctions completed

  11. NOCHEX Chris Leach New Upper limit Multiple Payments

  12. Image Uploading

  13. The Bumblebee System User Group Meeting Paul Fright Coraider Services September 11th, 2007 pfright@coraider.co.uk 020 8417 0625 www.coraider.co.uk

  14. Restrictions • Images must be jpg or gif • Maximum dimension 300x300 pixels • Maximum file size 32Kb

  15. Choice of Camera As the final image is fairly small any Digital Camera can be used, however for best results you should check that the camera has Macro mode support for close ups. Optical zoom is also useful for framing the shot.

  16. Getting Pictures onto PC • The standard way is via the cable provided • Use a Card Reader, acts like a USB flash drive and is faster than the cable • Some camreas are Wifi or Bluetooth enabled.

  17. Nikon Coolpix P2 • Wifi Enabled • Will transfer pictures directly from the camera to a folder on the PC as they are taken. • 3.5 optical zoom

  18. Web Cam • Not a replacement for a digital but useful for close up • Directly captured to PC • Ensure it can be focused

  19. Sample Image

  20. Hints • Try to use natural light where possible • Avoid use of flash • For close up use a recognizable object or ruler to give a scale • A high contrast object will help the camera auto focus

  21. Image Editors Any basic Image editor can be used as normally all that is needed is image cropping and resizing • Paint • Part of Windows • Supports cropping • Will resize but only by percentages • Paint Shop Pro, Photoshop etc • Quick Resizer available for download

  22. Image Editors

  23. HTML Editor • This is an additional auction editor and not a replacement for the current one. • WYSIWYG (What You See is What You Get) editor • Multiple Image loading from a single page • Requires Security changes to Internet Explorer (trusted site zone)

  24. HTML Editor

  25. Multiple Image Loading

  26. Multiple Image Loading

  27. DEMO

  28. Multiple Payments • Allows users to pay for multiple items at one go • Owners and Users will still get one email for each item paid for as normal

  29. Multiple Payments

  30. DEMO

  31. Multiple Claims Longer term

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