> Give these auction site time Ebutt took time to build up too, and then
> greed set in, o no dose this mean the other auction sites will do the
> same in time?
Unfortunately, I don't think so. auctions.yahoo.com has been around for
years as well, and used to be a lot bigger than it is now -- but it's fading
away, because everyone's on ebay. The problem is that in this sort of thing,
the bigger you are the easier it is to grow, and small sites are almost
certainly doomed to stay small. If I'm buying something, I don't have the
time to look through them all given the tiny chance of finding what I'm
looking for, and if I want to sell something, I'm not going to sell it
somewhere tiny where there's unlikely to be any bidders meaning the price I
get will be lower than it could.
If you want to expand your list, by the way, look on the 'auctions' section
of dmoz.org where there's 163 more.. I'd be curious as to what you find if
you do have the dedication to plough through the rest of them.
The one advantage of the tiny places, to be fair, is that if you _can_ find
something on them that you want, you have a good chance of getting a deal
because it's much more unlikely there'll be anybody bidding against you.
-- dan
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