05-16-2006, 12:59 PM
Quote:Case Study: Keeping eBay at Bay by Being Your Own Competition
The report shows how certain newspapers in the UK are using CityXpress to set up their own classifieds businesses to compete with eBay.
Northcliffe Newspapers Group, a division of Daily Mail & General Trust (DMGT) and one of the largest publishers of regional newspapers in the U.K., has introduced a new online merchandise product called Stuff4Sale (http://www.stuff4sale.co.uk). Still in the early stages, Stuff4Sale.co.uk is already reporting notable success for the two first launch sites in the northeastern cities of Hull and Grimsby. CityXpress, the marketplace- and auction-product expert, is powering the sites (http://www.cityxpress.com)...
full article: http://auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y06/m05/i16/s03