Signed by James Carney, founder and CEO of Bidder's Edge, the ad notes that last month eBay stopped allowing the items up for sale on its site to be cross-listed on the Bidder's Edge site. It Compromises the User Experience' Bidders' Edge was founded in 1997 and went live in November 1998. The site is essentially a search engine that covers most of the major Web auction sites.
Buyers compare prices and choose the items they want to bid on.
The actual transactions are completed on the auction sites themselves. The privately held company now includes over a million items. That's a sizable reduction from August, before eBay removed its 2.5 million sale items from the Bidders' Edge database. I guess there's somebody somewhere in the company that didn't want any search engines covering their site. It doesn't make any sense because we're not competitive with eBay in the least.