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In February 2002, eBay acquired iBazar, a French online auction site founded in 1998, for approximately $112 million in stock. [17] [6] eBay entered the Chinese market in 2002 and shut down its Chinese site in 2007 due to competition from local rival Taobao. [18] [19] In February 2002, eBay exited Japan due to competition from Yahoo!
Yahoo! Auctions is a service set up by the online search giant Yahoo! in 1998 to compete against eBay. [2]There are currently only two localizations of the service active in Taiwan and Japan; Yahoo! has discontinued the service in the United States, Canada, Singapore, Hong Kong, United Kingdom and Ireland.
A Japanese auction [1] (also called ascending clock auction [2]) is a dynamic auction format. It proceeds in the following way. An initial price is displayed. This is usually a low price - it may be either 0 or the seller's reserve price. All buyers that are interested in buying the item at the displayed price enter the auction arena.
As one of Japan's first international E-Commerce proxies, they pride themselves in having the only userbase in Japan consisting of registered members residing in 196 countries. [ 2 ] The website operates in English, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), French, Spanish, Korean, Indonesian, Thai, Italian, and Japanese.
The major difference between Japanese and Dutch reverse auctions is in putting suppliers in two different position. While in Dutch reverse auctions suppliers opt-in at intended price point and thus end the auction immediately, in reverse Japanese auctions suppliers explicitly opt-out of a given market at their intended price point.
In 2003, eBay acquired Eachnet, China's online auction leader at the time, [7]: 51 for US$180 million. It became a major contender in the Chinese consumer e-commerce market. [8] Responding to eBay's moves Alibaba launched Taobao as a rival consumer-to-consumer platform. [7]: 51 To counter eBay's expansion, Taobao offered free listings to sellers.
In reporting Ma's accomplishments, Adi Ignatius, former Time senior editor and editor-in-chief of the Harvard Business Review, noted that "the Chinese Internet entrepreneur is soft-spoken and elf-like—and he speaks really good English" and remarked that "Taobao.com, Mr. Ma's consumer-auction website, conquered eBay in China."
Catawiki is an online auction platform for buying and selling special items and collectibles. Catawiki was founded in 2008 as an online community for collectors. Since 2011, the company has been hosting weekly online auctions, in various categories such as vintage comic books, model trains, coins, watches, art, jewellery and classic cars.