Comments on: Yahoo Shopping India uses eBay! http://floatingsun.net/2006/12/14/yahoo-shopping-india-uses-ebay/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=yahoo-shopping-india-uses-ebay Sat, 11 May 2013 19:51:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: John http://floatingsun.net/2006/12/14/yahoo-shopping-india-uses-ebay/#comment-171313 John Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:04:23 +0000 http://floatingsun.net/blog/2006/12/14/776/#comment-171313 True Ebay rocks

]]> By: Ebay http://floatingsun.net/2006/12/14/yahoo-shopping-india-uses-ebay/#comment-106732 Ebay Mon, 08 Sep 2008 07:54:59 +0000 http://floatingsun.net/blog/2006/12/14/776/#comment-106732 The weirdest listings on ebay.

]]> By: Allen Harp http://floatingsun.net/2006/12/14/yahoo-shopping-india-uses-ebay/#comment-3709 Allen Harp Sun, 04 Mar 2007 16:35:17 +0000 http://floatingsun.net/blog/2006/12/14/776/#comment-3709 The concept, although a bit strange makes sense in the long run with a little extra consideration. Once the two giants join forces the resulting Yahoo Shopping eBay India will be a very powerful outlet for many retailers ( both Fortune 500 and individual as well). The end customers can benefit as well by having increased competition for their business. It should result in more favorable pricing in the local area. This may only be their first step at a joint geological venture.

]]> By: Diwaker Gupta http://floatingsun.net/2006/12/14/yahoo-shopping-india-uses-ebay/#comment-2364 Diwaker Gupta Sun, 17 Dec 2006 08:36:48 +0000 http://floatingsun.net/blog/2006/12/14/776/#comment-2364 *@shashikant*: I would strong debate the claim that “quick buy” non-auction items are the USP of eBay. The “buy now” concept was introduced much later, and eBay was already wildly popular by then. Of course, I have nothing but anecdotal evidence, but I suspect you have no better :)

True, big retailers sell on eBay as well. But I’d still argue that the dynamics of shopping on eBay vs. a Yahoo! like portal are significant enough that leveraging one for the other doesn’t seem like an obvious step to me. For instance, if you buy something from Yahoo or Amazon and its faulty or you want to return it, you typically deal with Yahoo or Amazon. eBay goes to great pains to _remove_ themselves from the path between the buyer and seller. If your item is faulty, you talk to your seller. eBay provides tools and a platform to aid this communication, but it explicitly tries not to be part of it.

But I agree that with time the distinction is narrowing. Amazon now has a lot of sellers where the item ships directly from the seller and not from Amazon (in which case the liabilities go to the seller).

]]> By: Shashikant http://floatingsun.net/2006/12/14/yahoo-shopping-india-uses-ebay/#comment-2348 Shashikant Fri, 15 Dec 2006 08:22:12 +0000 http://floatingsun.net/blog/2006/12/14/776/#comment-2348 To me, Yahoo Shopping looks a specialized eBay. On eBay, there are “quick buy” items which are not auction-based, the USP of eBay. Anybody can sell on eBay, including the big retailers from Yahoo.

It makes sense for Yahoo to leverage eBay, as the online shopping market is not that big to justify the investment.

As far as monetization goes, I guess, this will be same as CPC or revenue share, where Yahoo gets paid only if the user from Yahoo makes a purchase (by winning auction or with “quick buy”).

Surely, there is not much sense to build own shopping, jobs, matrimony, dating, classifieds services for every region. Wherever possible, they are using existing players’ services.

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