Online Auctions - Sites (27x)

Ubid.com manages an online auction and shopping website that offers both goods sold directly by the company and items sold by pre-approved uBid Certified Merchants. uBid.com, a wholly owned subsidiary of Sunrise Bidders, Inc., was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Itasca, Illinois. The site offers both products sold through uBid.com and products offered [...]

Tradera.com is an online auction website in Sweden. Tradera currently has over a million members, and hundreds of thousands of visitors every month. Although Tradera welcomes members from all over the world, most are Swedish. On 24 April 2006, Tradera.com, along with its sister site Traderamotor.com, was acquired by eBay for 365 million SEK (about [...]

Trade Me is the largest Internet-auction website operating in New Zealand. Managed by Trade Me Ltd the site was founded in 1999 by New Zealand entrepreneur Sam Morgan who sold it to Fairfax in 2006 for NZ$750 million. Trade Me Ltd also operates several sister websites including Find Someone, Old Friends, Travelbug, Safe Trader and [...]

Swoopo is a bidding fee auction site where purchased credits must be used to make bids. Prior to changing its name to Swoopo in 2008, the website was called Telebid. Swoopo is operated by Entertainment Shopping AG and is based in Munich, Germany. In order to participate in an auction, registered users must first buy [...]

Founded in 1999, SalvageSale is an online auction marketplace built for the disposal of insurance and corporate surplus, salvage and other goods. SalvageSale’s experience with salvage and its knowledge of the inland marine, ocean marine and commercial property insurance segments has positioned the company as the leading authority on salvage disposition best practices. When an [...]

Quicksales (formerly Oztion) is an online auction site based in Australia, and the second largest auction website in Australia. According to the site there are more than 750,000+ items available for auction or purchase and as of 15 September 2009 there are over 430,298 member accounts. Listing, including up to three pictures, is free but [...]

Odesk is a company with a global job marketplace and a series of tools targeted at businesses that intend to hire and manage remote workers. Based in Menlo Park, CA, oDesk was founded in 2003 by Greek students Odysseas Tsatalos and Stratis Karamanlakis. Outsourcing, the trend of contracting out jobs, often to lower-cost regions where [...]

MercadoLibre.com (literally “free market” in Spanish) or MercadoLivre in Portuguese (Brazil) is a website dedicated to e-commerce and online auctions. It is eBay’s Latin American partner. MercadoLibre is Latin America’s number-one e-commerce site. It is currently present in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, Portugal, Panama, Uruguay and Venezuela. MercadoLibre [...]

MadBid.com is an online penny auction site launched in the UK in August 2008, where users buy bundles of bids and place them on new products being auctioned. MadBid.com received £4million in Series A Funding from Atomico Ventures in July 2010. MadBid.com is a pay-to-bid auction platform where users purchase “MadBids” otherwise known as credits [...]

Lixtor is an Internet-auction website operating in New Zealand since 2005, as a free alternative to currently dominant “paid” online-trading website in New Zealand, TradeMe. Lixtor’s business model is substantially different from its rival site TradeMe as it tries to operate its business on advertising revenue rather than charging users on listing fees and success [...]