posted on October 12, 2000 06:34:55 PM
Here is a link to an article that describes what ebay is doing to cause stress and tension among the auction community.
I am wondering if there is ever going to be an auction company that investors will see as an excellent competitor and invest in it, seeing as how eBay cannot fill the auction world shoes.
We all know about Yahoo! and Amazon auctions, but they only got the traffic to their auction segments from their parent site, and their technology and business model does not directly revolve around auctions, therefore they are not catering to them.
eBay is, so far, the most popular and best place to go. However, when McDonald's came about, Burger King was sure to follow. They cannot hold the title for long. There needs to be 2 or just 1 other competitor that focuses directly on auctions, not just including them because it is the hot new wave.
Please post sites which you think have the potential to compete. Not from a standpoint of how many listings they have now, but the look, feel, navigation, features, price, support, design of the site.
eBay - If you take away the outages and the downtime to maintenance the site, has a good format and anyone who uses auctions knows how to navigate on the site, we grew up there.[http://www.ebay.com]
Amazon - Great looking site, but again not their primary focus, probably 4th or 5th.[http://auctions.amazon.com]
Golds - Very clear site and easy to navigate, but I look at it and I see eBay.[http://www.goldsauction.com]
321Gone - Easy to navigate, great member support, price = free. One problem I saw there was the fact that I could not find where the heck to join. After searching, it was in the upper right-hand corner.[http://www.321Gone.com]
Any others??
[ edited by tahoe8 on Oct 12, 2000 06:41 PM ]
posted on October 12, 2000 06:56:50 PM
SmoothSale.Com - Person to Person one on one trading, and their smoothdealer communication button can even be used on ebaY - ebaY says it is OK.
The situation with TAGnotes has gotten even worse! Tosday ebaY sent me a warning for posting information from TAGnotes on the DNF board. They are threatening me with suspension from ebaY because of my posts. They say it is
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QUOTE- * Public Board Abuse -- The following types of postings are cause for immediate post removal, warning, board suspension and/or suspension from the site:
Advertising merchandise, auctions, services or commercial web sites.
Repetitive posts referring to the "Tagnotes" service were found to be in
violation of eBay's board policy: -ENDQUOTE
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The referred to quotes were primarily references to information in TAGnotes about problems with ebaY, outages that ebaY usually lies about, and solutions or alternatives to go around or fix the problem. One was a link to TAGnotes that someone requested. It is incredible the lengths ebaY will go to to HIDE information about the failure of their site.
posted on October 12, 2000 07:09:53 PM
I think your Right in time some other Huge name for auctions is going to come along that is simply auctions like ebay that investors are gona put there money behind for sure.
I Honestly cant say its out there right now at all I think the time for it isnt quite right yet.
and I dont think it is going to grow out of disinchanted ebay buyer and sellers at all and it may never ever take the #1 spot from ebay they may just battle for the position.
I think the sight is going to come out of left feild before most buyer or seller there even notice it, it will already have millions of Items sellers and buyers it may even offer that one hot service no one ever thought of before and when all do relize it is there it will draw sellers from ebay yahoo and the rest.
see the key right now to ebays sucess is that it didnt draw its users from all other auction sites.
it will take some group or company with an already strong fallowing like home shopping network to go on line with person to person auction site that starts with a big chunk of it TV veiwers already signed up to sell and buy .
Who knows either way this next auctiion site will need a large group of buyers and sellers with millions of Items ready made that are not already hooked on Ebay ready to sell and buy.
