[rescue] Re: EBay treasure

[vraptor at employees.org]

On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Lionel Peterson wrote:

>Listing service?
>
>That's a *job*?

Yep. Lotta people making middlin' to lotta cash
on ebay.  Think how much ebay makes per transaction.
Now think about ebay being one of the few "dot com"
companies that's actually been in the black for a
while (compared to say, Amazon), and how much money
they are making as a company.

No product, no inventory, no manufacturing--just IT
folks and developers keeping it all glued together.

There's an *awful* lotta cash and goods flowing through
that door.  People want to take advantage of that flow--
listing services; sell "how-to" books, e-books, seminars,
and "academies"; image hosting services; sell harvesting
software that hunts down email addresses from ebay based
on what the person bought/sold; listing management soft-
ware; the list goes on...

=Nadine=