posted on July 23, 2001 10:25:47 AM
half.com suddenly jumped from 15 million to 50 million items recently. Doesn't anyone have any idea where this occurred at? What categories are you seeing several times the listings you did previously?
PS. The deal with ABE would account for only a small fraction of this. While ABE has 29 million items, no more than 20% or so have ISBN numbers (either they were published before ISBNs came out (about 1970) or dealers never entered the information. And half or more of ABE dealers are not joining the program (being hostile to half.com-type selling). So ABE is going to contribute at most 5 million or so listings--not 35 million. Incidentally prices
are going to be about 50% more for the same book as at ABE. A $10 book at ABE is going to be a little over $15. This is because the ABE dealer gets $10 plus $1.50 more shipping reimbursement than the half.com dealer would. half.com gets its 15% and ABE gets more than 10% for doing the uploading.
