Nowadays Ebay is still the place to buy and sell specialty items, which will always be a multi-billion dollar market, but they've lost their position as the marketplace of the internet.
If I were Ebay I'd also worry that thanks to Stripe it's quickly becoming much easier to become the marketplace for a given category, and beat Ebay via specialization.
Before I make any purchase on Amazon these days I always double check with eBay and ever single time eBay has been able to beat Amazon prices.
With same if not better checkout experience, faster shipping prices and access to Asian marketplaces; it's the jumpoff point before I hit up DealExtreme or Alibaba.
Plus no sales tax.
Plus eBay bucks.
But I'm hesitant on telling more people about this secret because I don't want the cheap prices to go away.
It's incredible. Jeff Bezos lost. No one gets it yet.
Over here, Ebay is the fleamarket of the internet, dominating the used items market. There are some ebay-like runner-ups, but nothing has broken through yet.
Owned by eBay. Kijiji is an eBay property and it's the biggest "Craigslist" in most markets other than the US.
They also own 25% of Craigslist