How Amazon and Google are taking eBay's Business

Posted by timothy on Wednesday June 22, 2005 @10:11AM from the aye-you-betcha dept.

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."

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or... by cryptoz · 2005-06-22 10:17 · Score: -1, Troll

You could just be careful with your money and not buy stuff that you want to sell three weeks later. Really, honestly, it does save you money in the long run.

Okay, okay, fine. I figure this is actually a good thing. I mean, we're all communists here, right? So we want to have the small time guys get just as much of a chance as the larger corporations, right? right?