OLA.com Online Auction Ebay Alternative Sees 300,000 1 Day Spike In Listings
- By Jason Savage
- Published 11/15/2008
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It seems that more and more, serious ebay sellers and online merchants are seeking out alternative venues to offer their wares. One of these is OLA.com also known as onlineauction.com. With its own "Declaration of Cyber-Independence" and an $8/month flat fee to sellers, not to mention an option to buy in for a yearly rate and become a "Founding Member", OLA is seeing fast growth. Just today, the ticker at the top of the home page has gone from registering 9,335,000+ auctions this morning to 9,665,404 this evening. Up over 300,000+ on the day and nearly 600,000+
on the month.
I remember when ebay first started out in the mid to late-nineties, with a reasonable fee structure and entrepeneurs seeing real profit making opportunities. OLA feels a lot like that right now. While OLA has reasonable structures in place to protect buyers and sellers, it is not overbearing, and the system itself has the open, flexible feel that ebay used to have. Emphasis on the phrase used to.
If you haven't checked out ola.com yet, maybe now is the time. While there are other ebay alternative sites out there right now, ola seems to be at the head of the pack.
I remember when ebay first started out in the mid to late-nineties, with a reasonable fee structure and entrepeneurs seeing real profit making opportunities. OLA feels a lot like that right now. While OLA has reasonable structures in place to protect buyers and sellers, it is not overbearing, and the system itself has the open, flexible feel that ebay used to have. Emphasis on the phrase used to.
If you haven't checked out ola.com yet, maybe now is the time. While there are other ebay alternative sites out there right now, ola seems to be at the head of the pack.
