A Comparative Study between eBay and Taobao in Chinese Online Auction Market BSAD 415:66 Electronic Business Prof. G. Trites Jie Yue (Kathy) 200706289 June 10‚ 2008 1 Introduction Being the largest online trading company‚ eBay has launched websites across the world‚ including thirty other countries in addition to its original U.S. website. China‚ with its large online market‚ is one of these countries. In 2003‚ after its cooperation with Eachnet‚ the first C2C online company
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Different aspects of online auctions‚ eBay. For assessor only | | 1. Content | | 2. Language structure | | 3. Language accuracy | | 4. Language: format & citing/referencing | | Overall: | | Advisory grade | | Assessor’s initials | | Maastricht UniversitySchool of Business & Economics | Place & Date: | Maastricht‚ 10-12-2012. | Name‚ initials: | Elemans‚ DP | ID number: | I6049135 | Study | International Business | Course Code: | EBC1009
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Case: Taobao VS eBay China This case deals with the competition of dominant position in China’s online market between domestic player Taobao and global internet C2C service leader eBay. EachNet was copyed from eBay’s business model. As it confronted the difficulties raising capital‚ eBay entered China with its acquisition of the EachNet in 2002. The previous Chinese operation was changed significantly to align it with eBay worldwide systems including listing categorization‚ location of servers
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TaoBao vs. eBay China Why did eBay succeed in the US but fail in China? What could eBay have done to avoid defeat? Unlike the US‚ China did not have the infrastructure necessary for eBay to enter and operate successfully. Therefore‚ eBay was before its time in China and failed because: * Low internet penetration rate – eBay needs high traffic. * Lacked the norms and laws to support online exchange – trust is a key success factor in internet based businesses‚ and the lack of rules
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I. INTRODUCITON Auctions are as modern as today ’s technology‚ yet as old as mankind. The Internet‚ however‚ has expanded the scope and reach of this market mechanism beyond the wildest dreams of its traditional purveyors. Unlike traditional auctions that were limited in scope‚ online auctions have brought this mechanism to the masses‚ providing them with an all-encompassing selection of goods they can buy or sell. In recent years we have seen the emergence of electronic marketplace that leverages
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Taobao VS eBay in China eBay China eBay‚ as a global company with a global strategy that trades across many nations‚ regarded itself very much as an American company‚ founded in 1995. Under ’ pioneered online person to person trading ’‚ " a web-based community that bought buyers and sellers together " approaches ( Stockdale and Felstead‚ 2010) ‚ currently the company listing sites in 29 countries and defines the C2C model of e-business around world. eBay has became the dominant online trading
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CASE: IB-88 DATE: 01/04/10 TAOBAO VS. EBAY CHINA Ten to 15 years from now‚ I think China can be eBay ’s largest market on a global basis…. We think China has tremendous long-term potential and we want to do everything we can to maintain 1 our No. 1 position. — Meg Whitman‚ eBay CEO‚ 2004 By 2008‚ Jack Ma‚ CEO of Alibaba.com Inc.‚ was in a position to consider how to fortify Taobao’s dominant position in China’s online consumer-to-consumer (C2C) market. Ma and his company had come a long way
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eBay first entered the Chinese market in 2002 by acquiring a 33% stake in its local counterpart‚ EachNet‚ followed by a full acquisition a year later in 2003. Critically assess eBay.s choice of market entry strategy for China‚ listing both the advantages and disadvantages of its acquisition strategy. As we know‚ eBay’s China expansion strategy can be considered as failure‚ despite the fact that eBay entered this potentially rewarding market with caution. This cautious strategy was very unusual for
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Online Auction for UUM Students 1. Introduction The fast development of communication technology caused the millions of auction listings in thousands of categories on auction websites‚ for example eBay‚ Yahoo and uBid (Yen and Lu‚ 2008). Online auctions conducted over the Internet provide substantial sales growth chances for the intermediaries and substantial unit cost reduction for purchaser of chosen commodities (Emiliani‚ 2000). Recently‚ online auctions activities have increased rapidly‚
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Actually‚ as the high complexity of consumers today‚ marketers seldom use only one segmentation method to segments the whole market. Thus‚ we found that Tao Bao and eBay are tending to use multiple aspects‚ but it also has the most influential segmentation. First‚ in geographic segmentation‚ e-Bay segments the market based on the nation. For example‚ the apps will suggest the most popular products in different nations due to distinct preferences such as the clothes‚ shoes and accessories in the front
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