[DMCForum] Re: eBay... Joe OBrien...

["Joe OBrien" <joeyoseppijoe@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ubid and eBay got in on the auction game at the same time. But 
apparently eBay went the way of VHS and Ubid became BETAMAX, aka no 
one was using it. Then eBay took off to what it is now.

There was some other auction site at the time, but I cannot remember 
what it was now. For the moment eBay is the only game around. Ubid 
is till running, maybe if enough people get pissed, Ubid will start 
to come around?

For now though, we've got nothing. And last I saw Ubid was listing 
items on like a flat fee purchase system, not really a bidding 
format like eBay.

For now, we are stuck with eBay. Just like EVERY other company in 
this country, with growth, comes the greed once they know they have 
a monopoly. I wouldn't be surprised if sometime soon a competitor 
would arise to combat eBay with the pricing now & in the future. 
That would force eBay to compete for business, not just getting it 
because they are the only game in town.

Maybe we should all start an auction site to rival ebay and become 
rich??


Joe













--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Scott McMullan <smcmullan@xxxx> 
wrote:
> Is there another really good auction site out there, that 
could "eat
> ebay's lunch" if enough people are unhappy?  I know there are a 
lot of
> auction sites out there, but I don't browse enough of them to know 
if
> there's a leading runner-up.

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