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I wonder if you can always turn a double-marketplace problem into a situation where the buyers and seller is the same person. Or, if it means figuring out a wa
by christopherslee 16y ago
I wonder if you can always turn a double-marketplace problem into a situation where the buyers and seller is the same person.
Or, if it means figuring out a way to change your business model to make sure they do become the same person.
- andyangelos 16y agoThere are some success stories demonstrating that creating a buyer-seller hybrid is not always necessary. Take http://www.uship.com/ http://www.uship.com/ for example. Most ebay sellers and small business needing to ship packages will rarely have experience (or interest) in the trucking industry, but still need reliable delivery. The truckers using the service may list an item to be shipped in the future, but are most likely not the typical customer on the site. The uship team just found two groups that were not paired and probably did a tremendous amount of legwork to create activity on both sides. I think sometimes you can just replace "they need to be the same person" with "we need to be solving a specific problem."