Google generally dislikes business models that require providing customer support or are hard to replicate at enormous scale.
Their biggest consumer facing products, Adwords and Gmail, focus on a single, infinitely repeatable, 0 cost product and have very little support available.
There's an upper limit to how profitable a consumer to consumer marketplace can be, as seen by eBay's shift away from c2c and more towards wholesale/business sellers.
Seems like a niche/startup player would be ripe to capture some of eBay's market share, as etsy, 1stdibs, etc do, but getting that initial momentum is hard, as is supporting a c2c marketplace's rabble of buyers, sellers and scammers.
This a space that I have long wanted to "disrupt"... Unfortunately I'm not a coder. If there's any hackers out there wanting a side project I have a lot of ideas.
Their biggest consumer facing products, Adwords and Gmail, focus on a single, infinitely repeatable, 0 cost product and have very little support available.
There's an upper limit to how profitable a consumer to consumer marketplace can be, as seen by eBay's shift away from c2c and more towards wholesale/business sellers.
Seems like a niche/startup player would be ripe to capture some of eBay's market share, as etsy, 1stdibs, etc do, but getting that initial momentum is hard, as is supporting a c2c marketplace's rabble of buyers, sellers and scammers.