Comments on: How to Beat eBay http://williamfrantz.com/wp/46 Stuff you can't live without Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:08:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Ray http://williamfrantz.com/wp/46/comment-page-1#comment-14029 Ray Wed, 01 Aug 2007 03:44:03 +0000 #comment-14029 <p>Have you considered the possibility of easing people of eBay by providing an extension to ebay which eventually becomes bigger than eBay, ala. mobile phone service providers. In the beginning people with mobile phones had relatively few people to speak with via the mobile phone network..but what they did have is the ability to call the traditional style phone, thus the critical mass issue wasn't such a problem at the start..and when people started to like the new freedom of having a mobile phone..well you know the rest.</p> <p>Perhaps someone with deep pockets could also offer each buyers a coupon, which could be used only on 1 day of the year, sometime in the future, to move to another auction site. This would generate instant buyer power and sellers would also be atracted to this. The cost of the coupon would be sufficient enough to create a frenzy of buying, and could be factored into the cost of acquiring those customers versus future cash flows. A big play but might have big rewards.</p> Have you considered the possibility of easing people of eBay by providing an extension to ebay which eventually becomes bigger than eBay, ala. mobile phone service providers. In the beginning people with mobile phones had relatively few people to speak with via the mobile phone network..but what they did have is the ability to call the traditional style phone, thus the critical mass issue wasn’t such a problem at the start..and when people started to like the new freedom of having a mobile phone..well you know the rest.

Perhaps someone with deep pockets could also offer each buyers a coupon, which could be used only on 1 day of the year, sometime in the future, to move to another auction site. This would generate instant buyer power and sellers would also be atracted to this. The cost of the coupon would be sufficient enough to create a frenzy of buying, and could be factored into the cost of acquiring those customers versus future cash flows. A big play but might have big rewards.

]]> By: William Frantz http://williamfrantz.com/wp/46/comment-page-1#comment-57 William Frantz Fri, 15 Apr 2005 04:30:37 +0000 #comment-57 <p>I downloaded Firefox and installed it. This website does not render properly in Firefox. There's some kind of bug with the menu mouse overs and the advertising banner. Firefox Favorites don't sync with my Pocket PC. The FTP client doesn't support drag-n-drop uploads. That's enough, sorry, uninstalling Firefox now.</p> I downloaded Firefox and installed it. This website does not render properly in Firefox. There’s some kind of bug with the menu mouse overs and the advertising banner. Firefox Favorites don’t sync with my Pocket PC. The FTP client doesn’t support drag-n-drop uploads. That’s enough, sorry, uninstalling Firefox now.

]]> By: Jason the Coloradan http://williamfrantz.com/wp/46/comment-page-1#comment-56 Jason the Coloradan Fri, 15 Apr 2005 00:28:21 +0000 #comment-56 <p>You won't do as well as your neighbor by buying ebay stock now. It's too high-profile and too big of a company now. You should focus on little known, undervalued small-cap stocks/companies if you want to be like your neighbor. You should know this already if you read articles on The Motley Fool website :)</p> <p>Your ideas sound like something Micro$oft would do. Don't give them any ideas, this web page is accessible to the public! :) And please don't tell me you're still using IE, the lamest, most insecure modern web browser in existence. Use Mozilla Firefox or the original Mozilla suite!</p> You won’t do as well as your neighbor by buying ebay stock now. It’s too high-profile and too big of a company now. You should focus on little known, undervalued small-cap stocks/companies if you want to be like your neighbor. You should know this already if you read articles on The Motley Fool website :)

Your ideas sound like something Micro$oft would do. Don’t give them any ideas, this web page is accessible to the public! :) And please don’t tell me you’re still using IE, the lamest, most insecure modern web browser in existence. Use Mozilla Firefox or the original Mozilla suite!

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