By Frank Barnako, CBS.MarketWatch.com
Last Update: 10:18 AM ET June 21, 2001
E-Bay's (EBAY: news, msgs, alerts) E-Bay.com and Half.com e-commerce sites ranked second and third in May for transactions on sites recorded by NextCard's (NXCD: news, msgs, alerts) latest monthly survey. Amazon.com (AMZN: news, msgs, alerts) ranked first, as usual. "Consumers purchase at Amazon.com more frequently and the size of the purchases are 23 percent higher than their closest online competitor, BarnesandNoble.com (BN: news, msgs, alerts) ," said Scott Lascelles, group vice president of loyalty marketing at NextCard. The NextCard report, issued Thursday, reported the average sale through Amazon.com rose almost 12 percent to $45.41 while E-Bay saw about a five percent decrease in May from April spending by NextCard users.