Auction Houses !!!!!
Electronic Consumer Auction House
The first Established and currently most popular auction house is E-bay.
Auction Houses earn income form sellers, buyers and from advertising!
Profits form the Internet strength of bringing together people who share narrow interests...thus increasing a market for obscure iotems.
Newspaper companies who perceived internet Auctions as a threat to their classified sales started Auctions.com.
Specialized auction sites such as Onsale.com and Ubid.com deal primarily with online bidding for name brand technology equipment. Other specialty auction sites are Winebid.com and Golf Club Exchange.