Google Auctions to Rival eBay and Yahoo?
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10-13-2005, 10:16 AM,
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Google Auctions to Rival eBay and Yahoo?
Quote:Google is reportedly sending 600 workers in engineering and support to a new location in the Phoenix area which is the center of a new Google complex in Arizona. full article: http://www.searchenginejournal.com/index.php?p=2322 |
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10-13-2005, 03:42 PM,
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Re: Google Auctions to Rival eBay and Yahoo?
I'll believe it when I see it. I still think that if google opens a marketplace it will be a classifieds type site rather than an auction site.
"Well, Jay was so giddy that someone named Jay was involved with this site we posted our first non-eBay listing in 3 years here at Lunarbid (we tried two items at Yahoo once upon a time, they bombed)" -Marie posting in a LunarBid thread at OTWA in 2005 wins the award for 'most moronic reason ever given for choosing a venue"
"thanks twat u must have nothing better 2 do. do u talk to all your members like that. will not be recomending your site. best way to put it is TULIPTOOLS.COM IS REALLY SHIT. DONT JOIN." -pubescent owner of rinky dink off2auction.com in 2011 |
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10-13-2005, 04:41 PM,
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Re: Google Auctions to Rival eBay and Yahoo?
I'd love to see Google do a fixed price/store front type venue.
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10-13-2005, 04:58 PM,
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Re: Google Auctions to Rival eBay and Yahoo?
Google will probably do something *soon*. Ebay knows it...which may be one reason why ebay is buying up all kinds of other types of businesses on the web and diversifying in a major way. I think they know their US auction business is tanking fast, which is why they have half.com, 25% of Craig's List, paypal, skype, ProStores & co., Verisign gateway, etc. All those rake in money with off-ebay users. -- altho I don't know how Craig's List makes money-- maybe ads. Ebay continually needs to find new users (= new money) worldwide, with a good percentage off-ebay, to continue to stay 'vibrant' once google does something *hopefully* stupendous.
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10-13-2005, 06:06 PM,
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Re: Google Auctions to Rival eBay and Yahoo?
Quote: they have half.com they effectively killed sales on half.com last year when many sellers moved to Amazon (instead of ebay stores) after eBay announced half would close. ebay later changed their mind about the closing but the damage was done. we've sold more on bidville over the past year than we have on half. they paid $300 million to buy half in june 2000 and the site has been on a steady decline since then. |
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10-13-2005, 07:07 PM,
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Re: Google Auctions to Rival eBay and Yahoo?
Here's something on google and classifieds from 2 weeks ago:
http://community.tuliptools.com/index.ph...637.0.html
"Well, Jay was so giddy that someone named Jay was involved with this site we posted our first non-eBay listing in 3 years here at Lunarbid (we tried two items at Yahoo once upon a time, they bombed)" -Marie posting in a LunarBid thread at OTWA in 2005 wins the award for 'most moronic reason ever given for choosing a venue"
"thanks twat u must have nothing better 2 do. do u talk to all your members like that. will not be recomending your site. best way to put it is TULIPTOOLS.COM IS REALLY SHIT. DONT JOIN." -pubescent owner of rinky dink off2auction.com in 2011 |
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10-13-2005, 07:21 PM,
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Re: Google Auctions to Rival eBay and Yahoo?
Any auction would be tied into AdWords somehow.
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10-14-2005, 12:55 AM,
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Re: Google Auctions to Rival eBay and Yahoo?
[quote author=bargainbloodhound link=topic=796.msg3015#msg3015 date=1129218154]
I'll believe it when I see it. [/quote] Actually so will I after last night. Last night I was searching the Internet about a possible Goggle Auction site and was very surprised to find mention of this on a website forum (I forget which one) of someone saying they just heard that Google was planning an auction site - that was posted in January 2004 - that's 2 months shy of 2 years ago. |
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10-14-2005, 03:22 PM,
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Re: Google Auctions to Rival eBay and Yahoo?
Someone even started a "petition for google to start online auctions" at the beginning of the year. Only 103 people signed it, but even if more had signed I doubt that google bases its business development decisions on online petitions. :
http://www.petitiononline.com/ga05/petition.html |
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