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How Amazon and Google are taking eBay's Business
prostoalex writes "Wall Street Journal says many online sellers who started on eBay are now going solo, being helped out by 'name-your-own-price' Amazon Marketplace and Google's and Yahoo's advertising programs, which allow small businesses to direct their ads to search engine users interested in specific items. The article discusses several companies where online sellers, being disappointed with eBay's falling profit margins, increasing fees, disruptions coming from PayPal account freezes and high fraud rate, are leaving eBay. Many start with setting up their own sites, continuing to do business on eBay, but then switching to solo e-commerce entirely after looking at profit margins."
Ebay's policies are also getting ridicilous lately, tried to sell my kidney that looked like it had the face of the messiah in it, but they didn't let me..
You have been outbid.
as we all know, wsj.com is run off of an iMac connected to a home dsl line.
Wait a second. Are you suggesting that Amazon.com is a good place to sell books? That's amazing. If you didn't know better, you'd think that the site was designed to do just that.
There's no point in questioning authority if you aren't going to listen to the answers.