eBay per se

This came in our San Jose (Silicon Valley) Tue morn paper. Thought some of you might
be interested.

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Amazon.com to do battle with eBay.

Earth’s biggest bookstore is taking on Earth’s biggest fleamarket.

Amazon.com the Web’s biggest retailerand would-be superstore, is entering the
person-to-person auction marketplace today in a direct challenge to the supremacy of
San Jose-based (ahem) eBay Inc.

In attempting to carve out a portion of the private-party internet auction market --
which one analyst expects to exceed $18.7 billion in sales by 2002 as it erodes
traditional classified advertising -- Amazon.com is hoping to accomplish a goal that
so far has excluded others.

Despite competition from the newspaper industry and leading web sites Yahoo and
Excite,eBay estimates that it retains an 86 percent share or the market -- dominance
almost unprecented on the highly competitive World Wide Web.

And so on.

Where the auctions are:

Auction Firm..............Items for sale

eBay..........................................1,878,260
Yahoo..........................................166,168
UpforSale*....................................33,789
AuctionUniverse.........................23,830
Collector’sUniverse.com.........22,854
Excite..............................................21,805
OneWebPlace.............................15,233
Boxlot................................................7,381
AuctionAddict.com.......................5,678
Haggle.............................................5,396
CityAuction......................................4,729
Collectit.net.....................................2,683

*Owned by eBay

Thes people are looking for our business (money). Clearly with 86% of the business eBay is the first place to look. Amazing how many garage sales there are out there

Super Slueth
The Ancient Mariner

Been to amazon.com auction. Not much there yet. No Harbour Lights as of yesterday. Pretty much the same format as ebay but faster.

I saw that ebay made the world news again last night. Wasn't good news either. Increasing numbers of fakes and non-shipments of purchases. Make sure you check-out the people you are buying from very carefully.

What we need now is a multiple-auction site search engine like www.dogpile.com

You request, and I must obey:
http://www.rubylane.com/en/search/

Just tried the "Ruby Lane" search engine and was impressed by the speed and diversity. I will bookmark this and give it more investigation. Only question is it seems to not have all of the offerings listed on ebay. Is there a reason for this.

Rod-
I tried the search engine and it works well. Thanks for your effort.

Rich

I just noticed in our logs that we had a few referrals from here, so I thought I'd check it out.

Glad you like our search engine! In answer to your question, we only index the Antiques & Collectibles at eBay, and we recently started filtering auctions from all sites that end more than seven days from now. When the auction is within 5 days of ending, it will show up in our search engine.

Check out our online shops while you're at our site.

Jim
Owner
www.rubylane.com