library and analyzing the methods those website are using to apply on theirs websites. Polyvore is using a social networking strategy focus on majority female users. E- commence is one of the hottest thing on Internet. It has been popular since 1995 ebay and Amazon became two of the main e-commence websites. E-commerce is short form of electronic commerce. It is a way to buy and sell of products over electronic systems like Internet. My project is to research the e-commence and fashion sites evolution
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MARKET EBay has a very wide range of target marketing mainly because of the wide range of product available at it’s website. Millions of items like collectibles, appliances, computers, equipment and many more miscellaneous items are listed, bought or even sold on a daily basis. In other word, eBay generally target online auction and shopping communities. However, eBay also has business strategies to target specific segment of the market. From the entire wide range of items available, eBay originally
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the sales). Side by side with Barnes and Noble, Amazon faces another fierce competition of WalMart and CostCo Sales. It began as the worlds biggest book store and now it’s the worlds biggest everything store. Competition: Amazon competes mainly with Ebay for online commerce and with Barnes and Noble when it comes to books. Since Amazon sells a wide range of products such as movies, books, games,
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founder of E-bay and Jeff Skoll was the co-founder. The name "eBay “came from the name Mr. Omidyar used for his original business, Echo Bay Technology Group, the "eBay AuctionWeb" was originally just one part of the Echo Bay Technology Group. When Mr. Omidyar went to register the domain name echobay.com it was already registered so hen did the next best thing - Shortened it to eBay.com. The first thing to ever be sold on the eBay was Mr. Omidyar's broken laser pointer, which he got $14. The
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than 50% of the market share. EachNet was the Chinese EBAY, with sensitivity to differences between the US and Chinese market. • Using well founded company with hard resources in china – Warehouses, shipping company, contracts with local supplier Etc. This will let Ebay, a smoother entrance to the market. Disadvantages • Trust issues – The Chinese customers hadhard time trusting new foreign companies, changing the brand name to EBAY EachNet emphasis this fact. • Chinese/ US culture
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consumers. EBay’s B2C business model is successful because it is based upon trust, fairness, and opportunity. Buyer and sellers trust eBay to have honest sellers and serious buyers. If a buyer or seller violates the rule of trade they will be banned from the site. Also the buyer and seller are given a satisfaction rating which encourages ethical behavior. On eBay the buyer purchases the product at what they believe the item is worth and seller sells the product at the least amount they are willing
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eBay Inc. is an American multinational internet consumer-to-consumer corporation, headquartered in San Jose, California. It was founded in 1995, and became a notable success story of the dot-com bubble; it is now a multi-billion dollar business with operations localized in over thirty countries. The company manages eBay.com, an online auction and shopping website in which people and businesses buy and sell a broad variety of goods and services worldwide. Case: The Globalization of eBay International
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base: To attract new customers and to create customer monopoly eBay established a business bond with more than 60 website. For example iBazar in Europe and establishing link with America online that have largest access to the largest user base on the internet and gave special competitive advantages over its rivalries such as AOL (Gopalkrishnan and Gupta 2000). 2. Targeting local and international trading: To have local presence EBay has locally 53 sites and to maintain global presence it has users
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EBay and the Existence of Firms As a global online auction market, eBay provides people a new way to do online shopping, not only by purchasing a product at a certain price, but also by the unique auction format. Through auction procedure, sellers can earn more than the base price in their mind and buyers can bid the price up to the most they can afford. By setting up a convenient platform to gather sellers and buyers together, eBay reduces lots of searching costs as other websites expend
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Ray F, Maryana K, Kangi J, Brittany M 10/2/14 Management Information Systems Jia Shen Peer to Peer Online Shopping Peer to Peer online shopping is a high tech version of old fashioned bartering systems. Peer to Peer online shopping connects people all over the world by facilitating online sharing. Typically, an online peer-to-peer marketplace brings people and/or businesses together online to deal with each other directly without having to go through a slow, expensive middle man. Peer to Peer
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