I haven’t posted before but I wanted to say Lee’s idea of the portal is interesting. It’s like what shopping.com does and a number of others for retail things but we could make one for vintage and antiques too, I don’t think there is anytihing like that yet is there? There was Rubylane but that was like one mall, this could search all auction sites maybe. And I think it could be a good first step or a side project working to a Webay site. I don’t think it removes the need for an actual site owned by the users, in the long run bigger then ebay, because if it started working then Ebay would just buy all the other sites like they always do. Somekind of search portal might be worth trying for an emergency measure for right now though because the problem with all the non-Ebay sites is lack of buyers and everyone too lazy or too busy to go searching all of them, the buyers I mean, who has time? Maybe not such a logistical nightmare if we just copied the basic model of a shopping.com type site, that exists so it can be done. The problem is a lot of it would end up leading back to Ebay now…not all of it but a lot of it at first. But better than nothing if it integrated the small sites in one place. Does anyone know how shopping.com actually works, its indexing function?
And Val I liked “Freebay” too, that sucks that it can’t be used either. How about “theFreeMarket.com” or something?
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