Showing posts with label eBay. Show all posts
Showing posts with label eBay. Show all posts
Sunday, March 15, 2020

Hoarding, price gouging, and backlash in the time of corona virus--updated

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The NY Times has the story (followed by an update): He Has 17,700 Bottles of Hand Sanitizer and Nowhere to Sell Them Amazon cracked down...
Monday, September 21, 2015

eBay is 20

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The Guardian has a nice column by John Naughton noticing that eBay is 20 years old this month, and suggesting that one of it's biggest...
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Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Is sniping bad for eBay? New paper by Bakus, Blak, Masterov and Tadelis

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Is Sniping A Problem For Online Auction Markets? by Matt Backus, Tom Blak,  Dimitriy V. Masterov, and Steve Tadelis Abstract: "A com...
Saturday, March 7, 2015

Sniping on eBay, revisited

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Is Sniping A Problem For Online Auction Markets? Matthew Backus ,  Tom Blake , Dimitriy V. Masterov,  Steven Tadelis NBER Working Pa...
Sunday, December 22, 2013

The evolution of eBay

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Once eBay was primarily an auction site...a story by Jeff Himmelman in the NY Times Sunday magazine brings us up to date:  EBay’s Strategy ...
Thursday, July 11, 2013

From auctions to buy-it-now on eBay

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eBay has changed since I started studying in the late 1990's, when it was all auctions all the time. Here's the story: SALES MECH...
Friday, January 18, 2013

Lunch (with me) for a good cause, to be auctioned on eBay

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The auction will start this weekend... The fundraiser auction for Jewish Family Services of Silicon Valley, for a lunch date with me (or...
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Sunday, January 23, 2011

Sniping on eBay, in Australia (radio interview)

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Apparently eBay users in Australia are concerned about sniping (last minute bidding). I was interviewed for a radio report on the subject by...
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Monday, April 5, 2010

Sniping in auctions with substitutes

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On an auction site like eBay, many copies of the same good may be on offer for different auctions. A new sniping site, goSnipe , allows bidd...
Thursday, March 5, 2009

Trust and trustworthiness: promoting and maintaining it

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Trust is essential for all sorts of transactions, and how to set up institutions to promote trust and trustworthiness in the marketplace is ...
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