Doug, Neither of your statements is accurate.
Notebooks have been almost entirely "Quick Buy" all quarter. The reasoning is that they are bought primarily by businesses, which typically prefer "Quick Buy" Their words, not mine. Judging by the success of Quick Buy in limited time last quarter I believe they know what they are doing.
The only thing that Onsale and Ebay have in common is the word Auction. People need to stop making this comparison. eBay is a classified service, nothing more. Onsale is a retail (etail) business,
with inventories etc. Revenues are booked differently.
Which leads to where they DO compete. Yahoo Auctions. They did stagnate for a bit over the last month, but have now picked up steam again to the point where as we speak right now there are as many auctions as there ever were(give or take a thousand or two). To say they have fewer auctions than a few months ago is WAY offbase. On 11/2 they had <30,000 auctions. There are now >95,000.
The real wild card here is Yahoo. They have yet to promote the site with any purpose. If they choose to, eBay is going to take a big hit in the teeth. Kinda hard to charge coming and going when the leader in eyeballs in coming at you free of charge.
Just an additional thought here:
What would 95,000 banner ads on Yahoo cost to run 24/7? They aren't costing Onsale a thing and there may be many more than that down the road. |
