eBay Goes Social
eBay has just launched its new feature called eBay Neighborhoods. The new feature gives eBay members a chance to join groups, rate and review products, leave comments, and upload photos.
Members can’t create their own groups though, they have to choose from one of the 600 premade groups created by eBay. Not too social eh? Other familiar social features like tag clouds and recommendations are present.
This new feature is part of the online auction giant’s redesign that’s scheduled to roll out over the coming months. Other features that will be added are real-time auction monitors, one-click bidding, and streamlined checkout.
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October 11th, 2007 02:22
Ugh. What does this mean for the state of the world if eBay has gone social?
October 11th, 2007 02:26
@Kyle:
Haha my first reaction was, “Are you serious?” I think eBay is a little confused
October 11th, 2007 02:42
Hmm actually they’ve been social for a while. They have “community forums”. I recently started checking ot the seller forum just because I wanted to gain tips on selling a few items. I was surprised how social those forums were so I imagine Ebay knows that and decided to capitalize on it. I personally think that was a very smart move on their part, lol.
October 11th, 2007 02:45
@Opal:
You know I think that this might actually be better than their message boards.
October 11th, 2007 03:01
I would hope so! A lot of fighting went on there. Those forums weren’t moderated but it was interesting to see that the “cooler heads” hung out there to chat. I got the info I needed and vacated. It seemed that a fight would break out every day on at least one thread.
October 11th, 2007 03:06
@Opal:
Now I understand why eBay did it. This should be a great help. Now I understand why you can’t create your own group too. Pretty smart move I agree.
October 11th, 2007 12:38
That’s crazy - I think I will stick to blogging to socialize online.
October 11th, 2007 13:08
I was just about to say the same thing B.B. It reminded me of a forum I used to go to…. It was a disaster…..
October 11th, 2007 15:57
@Danielle:
Lol
@katalyst:
Sounds familiar
October 11th, 2007 22:53
I keep hearing about all of these people making a living selling on Ebay. I’ve got to go check all of this stuff out. Sounds interesting.
October 11th, 2007 23:55
@Christy:
One of my friends makes his living off eBay. He scours garage sales and antique shops for items. He then cleans them and sells them. He’s got a house in NY and Florida.
October 12th, 2007 00:39
Oh wow, that sounds fun!! I may need to quit blogging and become an Ebay seller..hehe..
October 12th, 2007 01:49
@Christy:
What’s good about it is .. you don’t need a good pagerank for that