It seems to me that eBay's most dangerous competition is etsy along with perhaps Amazon's "sellers."
You have etsy eating most of eBay's "we make it ourselves" market and you have Amazon which lets people buy "new" goods cheaper with less hassle than the eBay/PayPal mess.
You also have Craigslist going after eBay local...
The only niche eBay really has right now is cheap Chinese/HK direct imports and goods which are borderline legal (and Amazon would likely pull, like knives).
If someone steals that market form them then they might be in real trouble. Even my mom who is in her 50s uses Amazon to sell used books instead of eBay - easier she says.
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Can I just bring up etsy here?
It seems to me that eBay's most dangerous competition is etsy along with perhaps Amazon's "sellers."
You have etsy eating most of eBay's "we make it ourselves" market and you have Amazon which lets people buy "new" goods cheaper with less hassle than the eBay/PayPal mess.
You also have Craigslist going after eBay local...
The only niche eBay really has right now is cheap Chinese/HK direct imports and goods which are borderline legal (and Amazon would likely pull, like knives).
If someone steals that market form them then they might be in real trouble. Even my mom who is in her 50s uses Amazon to sell used books instead of eBay - easier she says.
Etsy really isn't competition for eBay, at least unless they change their policies significantly. They explicitly ban mass-produced items.