In my last post I was praising yahoo answers as a place to meet potential customers, but what I really want is yabe. Yabe does not exist as far as I know, yabe is ebay backwards. I want to tell companies that I want something and then I want them to rush to tell me how low they’ll go to sell it to me (instead of selling something and seeing how much someone will pay for it). Sure it’s reverse economics, but it is the exact conversation that takes place in a b-to-b world. Not sure if it would work for b-to-c or c-to-c commerce, but it’d be an interesting concept and something I may pursue. No one is more willing to listen to your ads than the person that asks for them, that’s part of why Adwords works so well.
The real reason I want this service is because I need a new web host. My host is too bogged down, and Lopico has been moving too slowly for my taste since I relaunched. I don’t think that I need dedicated hosting yet, and I certainly can’t buy a server, so I’m just looking to move to a more powerful and less crowded shared network. There are hundreds if not thousands of hosting companies that can meet my need, so I want them to fight for my business - which they should.
Maybe I’ve missed it, enlighten me if “yabe” exists.
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August 3, 2006 at 6:02 pm
J.D. Amer
don’t say craigslist
August 3, 2006 at 7:54 pm
TheBizofKnowledge
Hmm, interesting concept — especially as it applies in the consumer market. I can’t say I’ve ever seen anything like that before where non-corporate consumers are involved. The only thing that even comes close (but isn’t exactly the same) is the way some freelance job boards work. If you need some web design work done, for example, you place the job description and wait for freelance bids to come in. Again, not quite what you had in mind, but a similar concept nonetheless.