Everything from golf clubs to ferraris are sold. Look at the empire of Yahoo, its strengths and weaknesses. It is a powerful search service, a dominant financial information provider and has a solid position aggregating content. Yahoo needs to build out its business arm. That was the idea behind Yahoo Shopping.
Shopping is huge and carried their winter profits.
They want to bring businesses together. Yahoo Auctions is not nearly the size of eBay. This would be the obvious fit to eBay in order to strengthen Yahoo's struggling auction service. What is not so obvious is what you can extrapulate from Yahoo's aggressive ecommerce strategy. They have succeeded in aggregating thousands of businesses together on their website to sell products.