eBay per se
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04/02/99 02:15 AM
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FredKuhl
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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
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Re: eBay per se
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04/02/99 08:40 AM
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Digger
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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.
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Re: eBay per se
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04/02/99 12:08 PM
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What we need now is a multiple-auction site search engine like www.dogpile.com
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Re: eBay per se
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04/06/99 08:44 PM
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Rod Watson
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Re: eBay per se
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04/06/99 11:50 PM
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Dick Johnson
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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.
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Re: eBay per se
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04/07/99 11:24 AM
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Rich
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Rod- I tried the search engine and it works well. Thanks for your effort.
Rich
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Re: eBay per se
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04/08/99 03:12 PM
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Ruby Lane Jim
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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
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