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The tough thing here is that you have to essentially monopolize a certain market place like craigslist and ebay have done. If you want to bid on a product you a
by wallawe 15y ago
The tough thing here is that you have to essentially monopolize a certain market place like craigslist and ebay have done. If you want to bid on a product you are going to go to ebay, if you want to search for something in your area you are going to go to craigslist. These are your competitors and to take users away from these, while implementing a monthly fee is going to be really tough.
Take a look at what a difficult time oodle is having, even though it is teamed up with the monstrous facebook. People are going to go to the one with the most listings and that's why the big two will remain so.
- sixtofour 15y agoI'm not expert, but what wallawe says makes sense. So the next step/question is, what can you do, that ebay and cl already do, but an order of magnitude better. What pain do ebay or cl users experience that they would pay to make go away. Alternatively, what can you do that ebay or cl don't or can't do. I've never used ebay, hardly used cl, so I don't have a source of pain to suggest. Since you came up with the idea, hopefully you have something that really pisses you off, perhaps the very thing that motivated you to do this in the first place. If it's just spam, they seem to be doing OK right now.