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Amazon vs. eBay: 2 Charts Say It All

Measuring user growth, which I am guessing is based on U.S. figures (?), for large sites such as eBay and Amazon is mostly meaningless considering the number of internet users who need a service as such and who shop online. A more meaningful user metric would be active users and we all know how hard that figure is to compute. So let us stick with the dollar figures.

Vansak nailed it on the head with his (her?) comment.

I'd rather skim 18.66% off of 100s of millions units sold for the next several years than to skim 3.23% off of millions (or even 10s of millions) of units sold for those same years or even for more years thereafter.

Yeah, eBay needs to improve and it looks like they are getting there. I think they have slighted the sellers a bit but I also think many of those sellers were not true business people prepared for the eventual maturation of a new market channel (such as online auction) or should I say their (the sellers) ONLY market channel. I am sure many feeling burned were "eBay only" businesses that did not expand their horizons.