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> any product based primarily on aggregating products that others sell is a failed model What about eBay?
by w1ntermute 10y ago
> any product based primarily on aggregating products that others sell is a failed model
What about eBay?
- seibelj 10y agoeBay is not forwarding you to third-party websites in order to purchase products. They are listing products directly. The company the author was creating forwarded you to someone else. In return the store paid a monthly fee. Essentially this company was targeted lead-gen, and stores paid a fee for them to do the work and drive traffic.
- w1ntermute 10y agoMy bad, I didn't realize the OP's company was forwarding traffic to a 3rd party. That's indeed a bad idea.
- blcArmadillo 10y agoI don't think eBay is really an aggregation service; it's a platform on which people directly sell items. An aggregation service on the other hand goes out and finds shops already selling items through other platforms and provides one place where you can search all these shops. They would then presumably collect some sort of commission on sales.