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I agree they don't seem to be innovating, but heck, neither is craigslist, and I don't see them going anywhere. I think that until someone else would need to
by lsc 17y ago
I agree they don't seem to be innovating, but heck, neither is craigslist, and I don't see them going anywhere. I think that until someone else would need to come along with something significantly better /and/ have significant advertising dollars to compete with ebay. (either that or ebay would need to screw up it's reputation system and badly.) I don't think that facebook or any of the other social networks will compete in that arena... the social networks may help in advertising, e.g. driving people to a particular purchase, but I go to ebay to /find/ something, and I don't think facebook is a useful model for that sort of thing.
Sure, you can buy shit from your friends on facebook; I do that without an online social network, through mailing lists and other informal networks. But I don't think that really competes with ebay in any meaningful way.
- davemc500hats 17y agocheck out http://payvment.com http://payvment.com & http://yardsellr.com http://yardsellr.com craigslist is not in any great danger, but they also aren't innovating much... and even they too face competition from social platforms eventually if they keep standing still.
- lsc 17y agoas far as I can tell, neither of those allow me to search for 'sv650 shift lever' after I drop my bike. The whole point of ebay is that I can pay 'some guy wants to get rid of it' prices, and still get exactly what I want, even if what I want is kindof weird. I am not sure that a social platform is best for selling things; I don't care what you look like, your sexual orientation, or how much you love your dog. I want to know if you will send me the item after I pay for it, and I want to know if the item will be in the condition you said it was in.