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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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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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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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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motivation for diversifying into the consumer business with the launch of Taobao? Does it make sense? Alibaba Group’s motivation for diversifying into the consumer business with the launch of Taobao was mainly because of the rise of eBay in China. Jack Ma‚ the founder of Alibaba‚ observed that the entry of eBay through EachNet‚ which held an 85% market share‚ was a threat to Alibaba. He was especially concerned that the rise of eBay would encroach their existing B2B business. Jack also noted that the
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1435417.1435450 BY CAROL XIAOJUAN OU‚ ROBERT M. DAVISON Why eBay Lost to TaoBao in China: The Global Advantage electronic commerce involves electronically-facilitated transactions between consumers through third parties.9 In China‚ a number of C2C platforms have emerged‚ such as eBay (China)‚ TaoBao and PaiPai. TaoBao‚ established in 2003‚ has quickly assumed a dominant position in this market‚ underlined by the December 2006 decision by eBay to quit the C2C market in China altogether‚4‚ 8 merging its
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diversifying into the consumer business with the launch of Taobao? Does it make sense? Alibaba group felt that it was under threat from eBay as eBay had a large market share in C2C business. Alibaba felt that eBay may go into the B2B business which Alibaba is in‚ and their business may be under threat. Hence Alibaba decided to go into the C2C business with Taobao to compete with eBay for the fear of eating into Alibaba business. It made sense because Taobao managed to overtake eBay’s share of the C2C business
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E-commerce has quickly grown into a giant shopping force‚ with eBay and Amazon.com leading the way; both websites offer similar services in different manners. eBay focuses on being an online auction site where people are able to bid on the items they want‚ attempting to find the best deal‚ while Amazon.com is store-based‚ where items are sold at set prices. This study aims to compare the ease of completing four tasks both websites offer‚ registering an account‚ buying‚ selling‚ and reviewing an item
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