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1. India

   July 20th, 2009 at 7:36 pm

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   Great reading, ready for more, thanks! Another great ebay alternative … http://www.efleaa.com

2. Ed

   August 5th, 2009 at 1:04 am

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   Hi Mark,

   I must admit quite a few auction sites exsist and it really makes you wonder which one of these auctionhouse acorns could possibly supercede eBay in the future?

   TTFN….Ed.

3. JP

   August 11th, 2009 at 4:41 pm

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   eBay’s days at the top are certainly numbered. Upstart companies, most notably Pricefalls.com, are chipping away at them with superior platforms, a more diverse inventory, and more user-friendly customer support. Not to mention the fact that it is absolutely free to list products on Pricefalls, which means there’s no risk involved. Do away with the old and usher in an era of auction prosperity for all by making the switch to Pricefalls today!

4. Steve

   August 27th, 2009 at 8:50 pm

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   I do not think there will ever be one true competitor to ebay, it is simply too big and too established.
   Where I do think that alternative sites will make inroads is those that focus on a niche, particularly in categories where ebay may have moved the goalposts by insisting on free P&P, or making it untenable for the smaller seller to establish themselves amongts some big players.

   Sadly too many alternatives to ebay simply come and go without ever seeing any real growth, and the main problem I see is this.

   When was the last time anyone saw an alternative to ebay market itself to buyers? It’s easy to to get sellers with cheap or free listing, but what use are they without buyers?

5. poorblogger

   September 5th, 2009 at 8:02 pm

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   If I’m not wrong yahoo auction not open to all country like eBay..
   Correct me if i’m wrong..

6. zhuzhiyan

   October 14th, 2009 at 9:32 am

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   If you’re looking to boycott eBay or get out of eBay completely (just because you think that eBay sucks and not for the eBay boycott), Or you want to put your eggs in some other online auctions baskets then here is a list of more than 50 sites that you might want to

7. insurance

   January 17th, 2010 at 6:40 pm

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   Wow! i agree! i’ve been searching for so long for a site where i could find everything that i want, and i’ve just found it!! really, i’ve visited your blog, and it’s amazing, i will keep visiting

8. eBuster

   February 1st, 2010 at 10:42 pm

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   i hope Google comes up with an alternative to eBay but the MAFIA would do a better job so far as i’m concerned

   eBay says it has 233m members but if you read the small print then this 233m soon becomes 14m for the UK and you could add 20% more for the USA but this still leaves you a very long way from eBays 233m figure.

   http://pages.ebay.co.uk/aboutebay/thecompany/companyoverview.html

   eBuster put the total for active members at about 33m members.

   http://www.ebuster.co.uk/SellerStats.aspx

   and that includes all the shill bid accounts and accounts set up for nothing more than selling feedback and if you think these are small numbers then take a look here were 1000′s of feedback adverts are listed.

   http://www.ebuster.co.uk/SellingFeedBack/AllSellingFeedback.aspx

   or here where we have a bidder with just 6 points retracting 275 bids

   http://www.ebuster.co.uk/BadBids/275BidRetractions.html

   or this one where a bidder has 72 bids with the same seller.

   http://www.ebuster.co.uk/BadBids/t-shirtzShilBidder.html

   eBays responce is to cook the book when they have been caught out.

   http://www.ebuster.co.uk/BadFeedback/euroachat2009/GoogleHadIT.html

   but Google cached pages saves the day.

   Take a look at ‘Books Fiction’ on eBay UK and it says it has about 2.5m items listed so if you take 2.5m and divide by 15 days and 200 items per page then you should see about 833 pages of these books each day but the highest page you will get to is about 251 and it will show items are ending in about 23 hours time if ordered by ‘Ending soonest’ so where are the other 500 pages.

   eBay says crime only accounts for something like 0.01% of items and it is doing all it can to help members so how come i can write software with limited access to data that spots gang activity a mile away.

   http://www.ebuster.co.uk/Matrix/Matrix.aspx?SellerName=xoberhausen

   eBay is doing all it can to hide data and will not answer why bidder in the UK are all called bidder 1-20 and the USA has two digit alias and not a ten digit unique alias but i think we can all work that one out for ourselves and now if you take the time to look at the bid history for cars you find a page full of new members and yellow stars.

   Sorry but eBay can not claim to have masses of loyal members if none of them are bidding and any figures from eBay must be taken with a large pinch of salt.

9. Anthony Taylor

   February 4th, 2010 at 7:25 pm

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   There isn’t really anything of any significance out there besides eBay right now. I don’t have a problem with listing my stock on another site as well as eBay, but I couldn’t replace it as I have never has any decent sell throughs elsewhere. Tried selling on eBid, had 1 sale in 6 months – it was a disaster.

10. David T

    March 4th, 2010 at 2:00 am

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    I too agree that ebay is the king dong when it comes to auction stes. I do not think any site out there is competition for them.
    But we are trying to give another venue for people to try. Why not its FREE…
    We allow feedback import from ebay as well as 10 other sites, re:amazon, etsy etc…
    Yes there is so many auction sites out there, however… most of these sites will NOT handle a auction site of any magnitude. Most are on a shared server hosting account. This can be verified with a reverse dns on ip. Some are not.

    eiStuff is different, we own the servers. So we are here to stay…

11. tearz

    March 7th, 2010 at 3:52 pm

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    we use to sell on ebay here in UK.But after sep 2009 when ebay changes their policy’s found many ebay alternative auctions website. a great list can be found here .

    http://www.top.onlineauctionsforum.com/

    But still ebay holds the number one .because those who start an ebay alternative auction website they cant beet many of ebay other facility’s such as ebay have its own payment system etc. i personally checked ebay face book page and ebay shares their analytic videos there.Most common comment is PUT THE FEES DOWN.

12. Leo Amador

    March 15th, 2010 at 2:04 pm

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    It is refreshing that you are actually keen to learn about other auction sites besides eBay. It is also surprising to know that eBay does not actually hold the number one position in other places. But if you are interested to know of other alternatives, you can check out the site below and experience buy and sell unlike what you have been used to before.

    http://bid4bargain.com/auctions/

13. labatterie

    April 26th, 2010 at 7:17 am

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    we use to sell on ebay here in UK.But after sep 2009 when ebay changes their policy’s found many ebay alternative auctions website. a great list can be found here .

14. Gary

    May 12th, 2010 at 9:42 pm

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    I have a website which does not charge for listings, nor does it charge a FVF or Final Value Fee and no commission.

    You can use 2 photos and a thumbnail …..Free!

    You could list your entire inventory and not pay a penny.

    http://cyber-flea.com

    Thanks, Gary