eBay Launches worldofgood.com, a Social Values Marketplace

EBAY (EBAY) has unveiled a new ecommerce marketplace called WorldofGood.com, which "offers products that have a positive impact on people and the planet, empowering consumers to align their social values with their shopping." This is an interesting approach to a new market niche that also has the potential to enhance EBAY's image as a socially-friendly organization.

I've always thought expanding via vertical-specific marketplaces was a great idea. World0fGood.com is not exactly what I had in mind (I was thinking more along the lines of newegg.com, etsy.com, stubhub.com) but it will be interesting to see if the site gets some traction on the back of some EBAY traffic.

Comments

[Et tu, Brute!:]

worldofgooddotcom against the panoramic background of ruthless extermination to its founding core of auctions and sellers.

Leaves a bad taste.

2008 Sep 03 12:12 PM

[Phlago:]

Too little too late for FEEbay. Their corporate greed has gotten in the way for to long, its alienated those of us who actually made them. (Who they forgot about).

I myself use alsoshop.com - And other auction alternatives, and have never looked back at the fee beast!

2008 Sep 03 12:32 PM

[patty-bog:]

Talk about a two faced company - a company which continously offends and intimidates it's sellers with such obnoxious terminology as "violation of ebay policy", "non Pay Pal payments will be prohibited" etc etc.
Sellers who prefer to not deal in Pay Pal are made out to be a bunch of crooks and rip-off artists, while the great ebay protects the market place; while in fact raping their customers (sellers) to greater and greater depths.
Trying to foist "free shipping" - is ebay paying the shipping ? Nooo !! They advise the sellers to incorporate the shipping cost into the sale price ?! and if it results in fewer sales then advise to lower the price !!
They also want to control shipping and handling charges - are they going to come and help me package the goods I sell ??

All ebay cares about is "trying" to generate money any way they can - I have a gold crown they'll probably want to "extract" when they can't find anymore ways to extort money out of me.
Ebay makes Tony Soprano's organization look like the Salvation Army.

2008 Sep 03 12:54 PM

[Watching th...:]

I have never understood the American mindset of treating their own like crap, while doing a show of global compassion?

2008 Sep 03 01:32 PM

[wizzert:]

Feebay???

World of WHAT???

This IS a joke...right???!!!

2008 Sep 04 02:13 PM

[arlin:]

What a crock!
Ebay is in a world of hurt and so they promote political correctness?
How about Ebay becomming an auction site,instead of a Paypal appendage?

2008 Oct 15 07:04 PM

[pisssed of ...:]

to true my friend ...i only started selling and surprise ebay/paypal froze my account saying that they will keep my money for 21 days as they want to see if get good feedback...i already have 100 percent positive buyer and seller feedback but they they need to verify ....and they expect me advertize{costing me} give out stock and pay shipping costs while hundreds of dollars goes straight to paypal and i dont see a dime .....well fuck ebay/paypal robbing scumbags why is the fbi /us gov doing nothing about these crettins.....it is almost impossible to find out where they are even located.......the slut who is in charge of keeping our money is ...louise phelan
Louise Phelan, PayPal , PayPal - Careers -
and the only ebay builing i could find is in ireland here is the address


Unit 6, Blanchardstown Corporate Park, Dublin 15, Customer support and shared services,
Ph: 01 4369001 Fax: [phone]

Apr 27 08:48 PM

[pisssed of ...:]

oh by the way ..feel free to have a big dump in a box and post it to them......that is one shipping cost i would be more than happy to pay......make sure you tell at least 4 people online how much they suck feel free to copy/paste this to save you time

Apr 27 08:55 PM