{"id":19278,"date":"2017-10-19T13:53:07","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T17:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=19278"},"modified":"2017-10-19T13:53:07","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T17:53:07","slug":"nobody-thinks-about-ebay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/19\/nobody-thinks-about-ebay\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobody Thinks About eBay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.racked.com\/2017\/10\/16\/16473414\/ebay-online-shopping-resale\">Chavie Lieber<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=15489420\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.racked.com\/2017\/10\/16\/16473414\/ebay-online-shopping-resale\"><p>One of those things that so many brands want is scale: eBay is enormous. It has 171 million users, with 1.1 billion listed items at any given time. But it&rsquo;s also no longer the only game in town. There&rsquo;s competition from all over, most notably from eBay's great rival to the north, Amazon; Brooklyn-based crafts giant Etsy; and venture-backed consignment sites like The Real Real and Poshmark. Deering may talk of the company&rsquo;s advancements, but the truth is, eBay has fallen far behind.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>These days, 88 percent of postings are &ldquo;Buy It Now&rdquo; items, not at all tied to the auction function eBay is known for, and 81 percent of what&rsquo;s available for sale is new. To eBay, new means unopened, never-used items; this claim is murky, though, as most items are still coming from third-party sellers and not from brands themselves. In fact, eBay has become a haven for flipping, a practice in which users sell in-demand merchandise at exponentially higher prices, further adding to eBay&rsquo;s sometimes-dubious reputation.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Amazon Marketplace has grown significantly in the last 17 years. Today nearly half of all products sold on Amazon come from the Marketplace, which sells about 2 billion items and brings in an estimated $132 billion in sales each year, according to e-commerce consultancy firm ChannelAdvisor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>eBay is still useful to find items that no one else sells and to resell items that Amazon won&rsquo;t allow. But it&rsquo;s the last place I think about because there&rsquo;s so much friction compared with other sites.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chavie Lieber (via Hacker News): One of those things that so many brands want is scale: eBay is enormous. It has 171 million users, with 1.1 billion listed items at any given time. But it&rsquo;s also no longer the only game in town. There&rsquo;s competition from all over, most notably from eBay's great rival to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[19,890,509,96],"class_list":["post-19278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-amazon","tag-ebay","tag-shopping","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19279,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19278\/revisions\/19279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}