Chapter 10
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Introduction

Auction Basics

Web Auction Strategies

Virtual Community Strategies

Exercises

Additional Resources

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Electronic Commerce 2e Home  Chapter 10  

C h a p t e r   10:
Strategies for Web Auctions, Virtual Communities, and Web Portals

Introduction

Benchmark Capital
eBay

Auction Basics

Purchasing Activities
Christie's
Sotheby's

Sealed-Bid Auctions
1996 Nobel Prize in Economics

Double Auctions
Chicago Board of Trade
New York Stock Exchange

Web Auction Strategies

General Consumer Auctions
Amazon.com
(Auctions site.)
Apartments.com
Auctions.com
BBB Online
(Better Business Bureau Third-Party Assurance Site.)
Cars.com
Classified Ventures
eBay
Excite
(Auctions site.)
Klik-Klok Dutch Auction
NewHomeNetwork.com
TRUSTe
(Third-Party Assurance Provider.)
Yahoo!
(Auctions site.)

Specialty Consumer Auctions
Bid.com
CDenergy
CigarBid.com
CityAuction
CNET.com
(Auctions site.)
Cyberhorse
eHammer
Golf Club Exchange
Haggle Online
Dell Auction
Professional Coin Grading Service (PCGS) (was Coin Universe)
Stamp Auction Network
uBid
Winebid
ZDNet
(Auctions site.)

Business-to-Business Auctions
Auction IT
Band-X
CheMatch
ChemConnect
Chemdex
CompUSA Auctions
FastParts.Com
FreeMarkets Online
Going, Going...Sold!
J.R. Metals Quick Bid Auction
NECX Online Exchange
OpenClose Connection
SciQuest

Auction-Related Services
Auction Guide
AuctionInsider
BidXS
(formerly Bidder's Edge)
i-Escrow
PriceSCAN
Price Watch
Secure Trades
TradeSafe Online

Seller-Bid Auctions and Group Purchasing Sites
Mercata
TravelBids

Virtual Community Strategies

eBay
GeoCities
MIT Media Lab
MIT Software Agents Group
SkyTel Communications
Tripod

Virtual Communities
Milpro

Early Web Communities
GeoCities
Lycos
Salon.com
Theglobe.com
WELL

Web Portal Strategies
AOL
Excite
GO Network
Lycos
MSN
Netscape Netcenter
Yahoo!

Exercises

Exercise 1
MIT Software Agents Group

Exercise 2
CNET.com
Haggle Online

Dell Auction
uBid
ZDNet

Exercise 3
Grand Yachts Northwest
Hansen Yacht Sales
Yacht Sales International

Additional Resources

Afzali, C. "EBay Goes Wireless with SkyTel Partnership,"
(InternetNews.com, May 13, 1999.)
Agorics, Inc. "A Survey of Auctions"
(Auction Information Page.)
Priluck, J. "MIT: E-Commerce Just Beginning,"
(Wired News, February 24, 1999.)
Sullivan, J."Sold on eBay,"
(Wired News, September 23, 1998.)
Yahoo! Directory of Online Auctions