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Ebay’s decline

I have blogged before about how Ebay’s neglect of it’s core user group would land it in trouble.  Now Nielsen data from Henry Blodget’s blog shows that coming through in their traffic.

December 1st, 2008 | Category: Online retail
  • http://jenslapinski.wordpress.com Jens

    You should also check out their stock price, it has reflected this decline for several years:

    http://finance.google.com/finance?q=ebay

    Embeddable widget here:

    http://www.wikinvest.com/stock/EBay_(EBAY)

  • http://jenslapinski.wordpress.com Jens

    You should also check out their stock price, it has reflected this decline for several years:

    http://finance.google.com/finance?q=ebay

    Embeddable widget here:

    http://www.wikinvest.com/stock/EBay_(EBAY)

  • http://trailbeater.blogspot.com/ Ben Colclough

    Ebay appear to have maxed out their marketplace for now. But still it is a healthy little earner – a real business which will last. Surely more interesting and exciting though is Paypal, there is still tonnes of room for growth (they are in a much stronger position than Visa or MasterCard to win in mobile payments) and ultimately the potential is there to match and compete with Visa and MasterCard.

  • http://trailbeater.blogspot.com/ Ben Colclough

    Ebay appear to have maxed out their marketplace for now. But still it is a healthy little earner – a real business which will last. Surely more interesting and exciting though is Paypal, there is still tonnes of room for growth (they are in a much stronger position than Visa or MasterCard to win in mobile payments) and ultimately the potential is there to match and compete with Visa and MasterCard.

  • http://www.auctionexplorerbooks.com James Findlay

    Nic, I think this is also an indication that the Internet auction using community is migrating to niche market sites, such as ours. We auction rare books via the Internet and have seen our growth steadily increase, on a consistent basis. Other factors like costs come into the equation, we charge our sellers a mere 5% commission and $1 per book listed, plus there is no buyer’s premium (Ebay’s charges are substantially higher). I believe that the future lies in these types of highly specialised community based websites – typical “long tail curve” business model.

  • http://www.auctionexplorerbooks.com James Findlay

    Nic, I think this is also an indication that the Internet auction using community is migrating to niche market sites, such as ours. We auction rare books via the Internet and have seen our growth steadily increase, on a consistent basis. Other factors like costs come into the equation, we charge our sellers a mere 5% commission and $1 per book listed, plus there is no buyer’s premium (Ebay’s charges are substantially higher). I believe that the future lies in these types of highly specialised community based websites – typical “long tail curve” business model.

  • nic

    Interesting point James. I think we are seeing a similar trend with social networks too. It could be that on the web the economies of scale aren’t strong enough to justify the product compromises necessary on these one size fits all sites.

  • nic

    Interesting point James. I think we are seeing a similar trend with social networks too. It could be that on the web the economies of scale aren’t strong enough to justify the product compromises necessary on these one size fits all sites.