Amazon is still running auctions. More than that I do not know. Bill Burns wrote: > Robert Wright wrote: >> Yahoo has no auction site. They used to, and in the beginnings of >> eBay, Yahoo's was substantially larger and more active than eBay's. > > No, that's not right. eBay started in 1995, and Yahoo attempted to > compete with them on auctions starting in 1998, followed by Amazon in > 1999. eBay was so well established by then that neither Yahoo's nor > Amazon's auctions got much traffic, and they both gave up. > > I signed up as a seller with eBay in 1996, less than a year after they > opened for business. > > See: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay > > http://wiki.media-culture.org.au/index.php/Yahoo!_Auctions > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon.com >