Why there isn't a buyer's e-shop?

I define e-shops like EBay are seller's shop. It is the sellers
advertise their items. Then the buyers bid.

How about turn that around? For example, I want a laptop with 900+
CPU, 128+ MB, etc under £ 1200. The sellers can bid with lower and
lower price. The buyer saves a lot of effort to buy something with
reasonable price.

I guess this is not a new idea at all. But why it is not implemented?

Cheers,
Dabei

On 20 Mar 2004 01:01:35 -0800, dabei_post RemoveThis @hotmail.com (Jonathan Yu)
wrote:

 >I define e-shops like EBay are seller's shop. It is the sellers
 >advertise their items. Then the buyers bid.
 >
 >How about turn that around? For example, I want a laptop with 900+
 >CPU, 128+ MB, etc under £ 1200. The sellers can bid with lower and
 >lower price. The buyer saves a lot of effort to buy something with
 >reasonable price.
 >
 >I guess this is not a new idea at all. But why it is not implemented?
 >
 >Cheers,
 >Dabei

Hello Dabei,

What would be the business model? Example, most places charge a
percentage based on the final price, would you spend time and money on
a site, that as it gets more and more successful, you make less and
less per transaction?

I'm sure if you can move based on quanity over time, but look at ebay,
they make money even when the seller doesn't sell via insertion fees.
How would you model that with this system.

Just asking, so if you or a reader, we can be helpful to eachother.

hth,

tom





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