Lissa McGrath at AuctionBytes.com:
In the last 12 months, eBay has increased auction-format listing fees, final value fees, launched eBay Express, significantly increased eBay Store fees, and made numerous other changes which have severely impacted many smaller sellers’ businesses.
Online classified sites have been around for a long time, and over the past few years, eBay has increased understanding and acceptance of buying online from an individual seller - something most people would not have considered before eBay emerged. Enter CraigsList, Backpage, LiveDeal, the Oodle classifieds site search tool, and other online classified sites.
Fifty-three percent of respondents to a recent AuctionBytes reader survey said they sell on classified sites. The big difference between eBay and online classified sites is the latter is completely free. No listing fees, no final value fees, no listing upgrade fees, free pictures, and no limited duration.
There is no problem selling large items, such as appliances or furniture, on these sites because most people pick up the items up from you. So, no shipping headaches either. And, if you have a PayPal account, the buyer can pay via credit card through PayPal even though it is not an eBay item.
Ashutosh Sanghvi on September 27th, 2006 at 8:02 am
The classifieds bug has also hit Indian shores. Recently while searching for an apartment I was delighted to see a site called khichdee.com which crawls the web to find classifieds from all categories of websites to provide them in a single, easy-to-search window. More importantly, khichdee also picks up ads from newspapers and magazines and presents them online!
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click india classifieds on August 10th, 2007 at 2:32 am
Classified market is getting competitive in India as well due to the sheer size of target audience. It will be interesting to see the moves made by the players.
Patrick Kallie on August 13th, 2007 at 3:06 pm
Classified market is getting huge, thier is alot of competition out thier!