ummmmmm.... just wonder....
now whats coming ahead is starting to become more clear....
its clear ebay decided long ago not to build ebay in a way where there may not be any competiors.... this would require not taking so much profits themselves.... but its clear they decided they could rip people off as hard and fast as they can... they knew this step would bring a real competitor one day....with this way there then becomes a big disadvantage after a competitor springs up... so many people being ripped off by ebay....SO they decided that when that day came they could sell out and morp over as NOT ebay with the bigdisadvange... so their moves with yahoo may be the start of this....if yahoo buys them and then yahoo makes people think they have run people off from ebay.. so that the bigdisadvantge will be less...so it looks like this is in ebays future....
the stores ... ebay cannot compete with froogle soon on this.... they closed them before people could see them losing to google.. plus i think they are thinking on letting yahoo buy them out and yahoo with a search engine can TRY to do shopping like google... with websites and stores........ the BEST search engines will be the place to enter a search for a specific item and buy.....this will come from webstores of people..... both google and yahoo will probaby have in house service for building websites that will fit their search engines to a T...and make searchers HAPPY.... this will end ecrater and blujay growth...and independent web builders.....
yes yahoo and google and probably msn will be setting up similar things here....peoples webstores will be on each ones search engines .....BUT each one of these will need an auction type of selling also.... not because its an AUCTION exactly but because the search engines cannot pick up another big interest of buyers... which is putting their interest in search and BROWSING and wanting to see different stuff in their interest each time they look.... these search engines don't seem to be made for this type of interest that buyers have.. with auctions .... all peoples items comes up to top page and comes up to very first item when they end... with search engines the first pages may stay the same.. not good for browsing and wanting to see different items.. so this type of selling and buying is needed to have a complete online selling and buying platform...
so i think its gonna be google... yahoo and msn...
when going to google you see the stores and websites of products on froogle... and right next to the froogle name.. should be auctions they may buy bidville since its the best set up out there with fast pages and a strong and clean appearance .. fast with a million items.... they have feedback as good as ebay..they may buy them and change their name and tweak it.. and google has their payment system Gbuy....
and yahoo will have similar and there the auctions of ebay will be .. will be their auctions when they buy them.... and their payment service will be paypal....they may keep the ebay name if they can convince people they have run off the ebay elite...if not they may change the name...
msn also will have similar....and will get an auction also and a payment service.......
then there will be 3 big time competitors and sellers then will make good profits from each one... but the only fly in the ointment is how our govt has changed so much... teddy roosevelt fought hard and made anti monoploly laws.... now our govt seems to be underminding that to help the robber barons..... just maybe all these will become one and NOT let the sellers and buyers benefit BUT INSTEAD make it even worse on both the sellers and buyers....
but it looks like these 3..... unless the govt is part of the ripping off of the people to help the few rich..... these 3 competing this way will be great for sellers and buyers... this would stop ecrater and blujay.. wagglepop.... all others....all others selling online in any fashion..
GBUY will now explode in popularity cause of how ebay has ripped off the people so hard THEY KNOW IT.... and this will make people explode with expanding Gbuy just because its a competitor of ebays pay pal
get ready to flee all other sites other than ones webstore.. or if you think you are on a site that google or msn will buy to use for their auctions then maybe stay.... bidville to me is best suited to be bought by either google or msn and made better...
us sellers....... get ones own webstore....with our own website we market that when we do our OWN marketing....place it in all 3 systems.. google .. yahoo... and msn..... next place our items in the auctions of these 3 systems.. this then will be the most efficent way and really give sellers and buyers alot of value..... and just hope the the govt are not in the pocket of the robber barons 1% who are trying to make everyone else as poor as possible to increase their wealth ... but facts are that when a country lets this happen this destroys their own future.. but the robber barons and the govt may be only concerned with the short term riches and their short life and to heck with the future because they will be gone....
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I like your possible conclusions and scenarios. With out a doubt non of these companies are stupid and we are so much useful income to their plans for the future.