03-09-2004, 10:49 AM
Quote:Originally posted by justin
in any case the world would be a much better place if ebay and paypal were not the primery auction monsters. but buyers really determine that not the sellers since its hard to sell on other auction sites heh.:o
Well it's called first mover advantage or something like that. Basically Ebay was the first auction site and so people slowly started joining. and then by the time other sites started up, Ebay already had alot of members. So if someone new wanted to buy or sell something, of course they would go to the site that has more auctions listed and more members to bid on their stuff. So that way, Ebay kept getting bigger and bigger thus giving it an even bigger advantage over its competitors. It's going to be hard for any other site to ever compete with Ebay.