eBay is no stranger to running tests across its platforms. In the Classifieds Group, for example, they opened up Spanish language sites in Texas and Florida last year to see if the bilingual communities in those States would find it useful. They also tested Gumtree –known very well in the UK – in Boston, Chicago and New York for the expatriates living in those cities.
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FEATURED POSTRichard Brewer-Hay / Sunday, March 1st, 2009
eBay to test eBayClassifieds.com in target U.S. markets
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FEATURED POSTRichard Brewer-Hay / Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Oodles of Opportunities
Wal-Mart quietly launched its own Classified Listings service at the end of last month partnering with Oodle to deliver the service. With the recent headline-grabbing news for online classifieds with both eBay’s Kijiji and Craigslist, I was surprised that this only raised a few eyebrows online. Although, it does confirm what we talked about on Ink last month; that the U.S. classifieds market continues to grow and represents the largest eCommerce market in the world… with still endless opportunities to grow further.
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