cmsspu
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posted on March 2, 2001 01:35:31 PM
Breaken News!!! from the undergroud. Serveal months ago ebay let go of some top softwear people who help put ebay together. These same guys are now going to come out with a copycat auction site. This site will charge 1/2 the fees ebay is charging! and add more fuctions. Word from my friends on the street said sometime in June this site will be release. Stay Tune!!!
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jamesoblivion
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posted on March 2, 2001 01:39:25 PM
If there are no buyers then there are no sellers so then there will be no buyers so then there will be no sellers... Round and round it goes, so no site.
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uaru
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posted on March 2, 2001 01:40:33 PM
Unless the "NEW Ebay" comes already stocked with buyers it won't make much of a splash. I don't know how many sellers use eBay because of their software.
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mrpotatoheadd
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posted on March 2, 2001 01:41:57 PM
And it will be different from
- Gold's
- Bidbay
- Bidville
- etc.
how?
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whinecooler
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posted on March 2, 2001 01:42:25 PM
GOSH........an Ebay COPYCAT!!
What a novel idea.
I wonder why nobody else has thought of that?
I hear Helen Waite is starting an auction site that will knock Greedybay out of the top spot.
If you want more information on the next new auction site that will route EBAY go there.
IT JUST AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN!!!!!!
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PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN!!!!
[ edited by whinecooler on Mar 2, 2001 01:49 PM ]
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traceyg
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posted on March 2, 2001 02:26:54 PM
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Serveal months ago ebay let go of some top softwear people who help put ebay together"
ROTFLMAO
Very funny I haven't laughed this hard in awhile. If Ebay ever had and top softwear people they were sleeping on the job.
Thanks 4 the laugh
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birdwatcher-07
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posted on March 2, 2001 04:34:26 PM
Gosh, didn't we hear something like this about Gold's? WHO?
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tonytiger27
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posted on March 2, 2001 05:32:00 PM
The only way to get the amount of traffic and business that Ebay has.....is to BUY Ebay.
PERIOD.
I don't care if this new site is an EXACT replica, NO ONE will go there---that is unless this new site has banner ads on EBAY!!!
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trueuser
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posted on March 2, 2001 05:52:50 PM
Said it once, twice,... before. The only way to compete with ebay if you have committed high volume sellers and at least 1000 of them and willing to sell at rock bottom ptices (no profit) for a year or so. Any thing else will fail.
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canvid13
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posted on March 2, 2001 06:04:18 PM
I don't know about a new ePAy but we are trying to get an online auction co-op going. We aren't allowed to leave the url but if you want more info please email.
Jamie
canvid13
[email protected]
Let's Build a Co-op!
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outoftheblue
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posted on March 2, 2001 07:59:51 PM
Hmmmm,
Hasn't something like this already happened. Correct me if I am wrong, but I think the site was called BidBay....
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gravid
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posted on March 2, 2001 09:13:59 PM
ohooow - If they are the top people responsible for eBay's performance the last couple quarters then it will be real interesting to see their site - if I can catch it up sometime for a few minutes in the middle of the night...
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loosecannon
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posted on March 2, 2001 09:17:02 PM
trueuser
I think it would take more than simply high volume sellers.
How about sellers of hard to find, quality and unique items? I'd rather see 1000 of these sellers than 1000 high volume, list 100 of the same item but sell only 50% if they're lucky types.
[ edited by loosecannon on Mar 2, 2001 09:18 PM ]
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ecom
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posted on March 2, 2001 09:27:44 PM
We should welcome any and all Ebay competitors.
Ebay has just become too dominant in the market and they'll continue to add fees on fees, unless a competitive alternative emerges.
Viva competition.
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jwpc
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posted on March 3, 2001 07:18:39 AM
Regarding "no one ever being able to compete" with eBay that isn't true. Till January, 2001, Yahoo was fast catching up with eBay till Yahoo decided to commit suicide.
As an eBay Power Seller, we had switched last January, 2000, to posting 99.9% of our auctions on Yahoo, and sold twice as much on Yahoo over eBay - and Yahoo was catching up fast with eBay, THEN the idiots decided to become suicidal, and has now lost about 85% of all of their listings. Naturally, the buyers are leaving for lack of product.
Odd, Amazon a few years back did the same thing - came on strong, we did great there also, and then, like yahoo they became suicidal and finally we couldn't give anything away on Amazon.
The only NON-Ebay site which I believe can possibly challenge eBay in time would be one who already has a massive customer base. A new, non-customer based auction site, is about doomed to either failure, or to be just another little auction.
Yahoo already had the customer base, as did Amazon. Off the top of my head, the only other entity which I think would have a chance to start an auction, and it be strong in the beginning would be PayPal with its now massive customer base. AW "might" be another which could pull off a new site, since they too have a strong customer base, but actually I don't know the numbers on AW, so can't really comment.
I am sure there are other such sites with large, established customer bases which could compete in time, I really haven't thought about it.
Regarding someone from eBay starting a new site - good luck - without the customer base I can't see any hope of major success.
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Pocono
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posted on March 3, 2001 09:14:18 AM
oh goodie...another site by the amatures
that built the first crash em' up site...HU RAY!
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Pocono
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posted on March 3, 2001 09:16:18 AM
Might as well be this site:
http://www.farts.com
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[ edited by Pocono on Mar 3, 2001 09:17 AM ]
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unknown
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posted on March 3, 2001 09:23:41 AM
Huh?
The S/W guys Ebay FIRED???
Ebay is known for having the most incompetant S/W people on the planet earth.
This guys are probabally the bottom of that barrell.
They Couldn't progam S/W to add 1+1
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