Urban Legend

sooo i read in the papers that google will be launching their own version of ebay soon called G-buy using a similar system to paypal....

But would any of you guys use it?

is ebay too powerful to compete against??

Micky The Finn

i think ebay is to well established now to try to compette against.

TrevCannon

Ebay's one of the biggest most used thing on the internet

Urban Legend

but does that mean it should have a monopoly??

89xr2

Depends if you have something better to offer

Micky The Finn

its not a monopoly.there are plenty of other auction sites around but nobody can name them i bet if asked and they arnt as busy as ebay.

COMEDY DAN

I think ebay has the market now.

How can you better a system that works.

I tried using www.ebid.tv the other day and it was total parp.

Urban Legend

im sure easy jet didn't take the same approach when they set up!

Cowboi

but google is HUGE.
theres not a lot u cant do on it.

search the internet
get directions
zoom in on area 51
compare product prices in all different shops
search for pictures
get the news
set alerts
block pop ups using its tool bar.


people know, love and trust google. and if anyone can test ebay i'd say its google.
if they make the site well (which they have with most things they have made) it may well take off.

i dont know if it will be as big as ebay, but give it a year or two and i bet it'll be not far off

Anonymous

If it gets enough money put behind advertising it then there is no reason it wont end up the same size as ebay.

To do that though, they have to spend enough cash to make it a household name.

The problem they have is people use phrases like "ebay it" when talking about selling stuff on the internet, seems unlikely in a couple of years that part of our langauge will have changed to "ebay or g-buy it"

Cowboi

i agree with chip.
ive lost count of the amount of times ive said to peolpe "wack it on ebay and see what happens"

i can be done, but wont be easy for them.

Mark B

as chip said its going to be alot of advertising to make it as big, ive just joined the marketing departmen in my work an some of the prices for adverts are crazy, but wont be a splash in the water for goole really,

could be a good place for bargains when it start out witch is alway good.

MB

Jonesy

It's not going to replace ebay. The service they are going to offer is going to compete with paypal not ebay. Ebay owns paypal. They may eventually try to go against ebay. But not to start with.

Urban Legend

That was my thinking, if anyone can compete it will be google as they are a forward thinking company with a massive following, they was on the ball with world cup live updates before most thought of it etc
my homepage will always be google as u can literally go anywhere from there!

and i agree with Chip, its going to be a massive up hill struggle even to get around the current lingo,

its like the whole hoover (vacum cleaner) and selotape(sticky tape) that sticks in our heads!

whateva happens tho surely the only winner is us the consumers!

Stavros

Got loads mate

http://search.ebay.co.uk/monopoly_W0...fltZ9QQfromZR8

Hope this helps

Steve

Rippers

If the audience was as big and the fee's where cheaper then deffo. Ebay/paypal charges are far too much IMO but without competition they can charge what they like, so I'd welcome a alternative

Urban Legend

can't belive i just clicked on that

Anonymous

There is something else that NO ONE has mentioned yet that might be important.

Do a search on google (for pretty much anything) and it returns "buy so and so now on ebay" in the results.

IF (and its a big IF) they decide to stop presenting ebay options (and i suspect they get huge payments for doing so) and they present g-buy on it instead, thats going to be a MASSIVE amount of "free" advertising for them.


I know hardly anyone who doesnt use google, so if on google you constantly get another auction site rammed down your throat instead of ebay, it could make a big difference.

AKJ-Dan

Well who knows...yahoo, altavista and msn were the major search engines until Google popped along So who knows, anything is possible.

Urban Legend

agreed, google has the best launch platform

but none of you have said you would use it, switch completely or avoid it?

(you know im getting paid for this market research!) LOL joke

Anonymous

Depends on whats on it mate, and how well coded it is.


Ive never heard of it till now, so i dont know anything about it yet.



Personally though i EXPECT i will use it if its from google, because (as mentioned above) they get things right when it comes to just about anything they do on the net.

Anonymous

yahoo and google are essentailly the same thing anyway.


i still use yahoo personally, but i view that as one and the same as using google

in fact i use phrases (god im a nerd, lol) like "give it a google" when someone asks me a question, even though to do a search i actually type "www.yahoo.co.uk"

Again, like "whack it on ebay" its a case of "give it a google" is in our language now.

AKJ-Dan

howd you figure that out then?

Urban Legend

are they not both essentially search engines?

GARETH T

the only thing google could do to make you use there auction site if pay you,,, as ebay is cheap to use and everyone in the world uses it

ballin

iTrader: (1)

so is msn, and thats shit!

sjoyce666

I heard rumours that google were going to make an offer for eBay and all associated companies

Havent heard anymore about it but if they did then google would have the whole lot covered and very little competition

Scott

AKJ-Dan

Thats my point tho, topic was about google bringing out same thing as ebay etc and would they compete...and thats why i mentioned their search engine...because its the same as the others and yet, they compete very well if not better now...so anything is possible

Anonymous

Google and yahoo are actaully powered by the same back end technology as far is i know, ie one is just essentially a different "front end" on the other more or less.

Urban Legend

understood personally i think it will be great to have a choice of DECENT sites to list on as will hope fully initiate a price drop war!

Cowboi

bring on the google g buy if u ask me.

whats the worst that can happen? its crap and we go back to ebay

AKJ-Dan

Hopefully

CharlieSaff

https://passionford.com/forum/viewto...150&highlight=

I think it will catch on if they offer better rates to advertise items and to transfer money, which they no doubt will

Mark_w

make it cheaper to use.... job done

frog

Google is on the world domination path folks, they have some very clever ideas and have beaten others on their own turf time and time again.

I reckon they'll be the next microsoft in a lot of respects.

Did you know that many top company executives have joined google with a $0 salary. Ok, most have personal fortunes, but google have attracted some of the world's top brains in exchange for no cash (well, I am sure there's long term gain there).

Did you know that google employees get one day a week to develop their own ideas, this is the kind of creativity fostering that's brought google maps, google desktop, picasa, etc... (see here for google's list of "products" http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/options/).

Paypal and eBay are forces to reckon with, we probably can't think of how they can be replaced/improved greatly. All I say, is watch out, google's about

Terry Tibbs

Would be good to get a new approach to buying things on the net. I hate paypal almost as much as I hate ebay. Too expensive and annoying.