Originally Posted by
reechy
not saying it wasnt a better product - what made eBay succeed was the community base. adoption didnt take off for the other auction sites.
two different products: google checkout is for checkout - it doesn't also allow person to person payments.
Well thats simply a first to the market problem. Claiming all other competitors tried and failed is kind of misleading to me I guess. The only advantage ebay had was that they were first.