Internet Auctions Industry Competitors

Looking to unload a used nuclear power plant? DoveBid has conducted many auctions of large capital assets, including the sale of the Maine Yankee Nuclear Power Plant. The firm has taken its expertise onto the Internet, providing online auctions for corporate asset sales; for a time, auctioning equipment from failed dot-coms was a particularly booming business....

AuctionDrop hosts fire sales in cyberspace. As an online retailer of surplus, salvage, and other unwanted inventory the company acts as a middle man between national big-box chains, high-end luxury retailers, and manufacturers looking to liquidate excess inventory and customers searching for bargains....

Buyers and sellers of business products and services can connect virtually in the BuyerZone. The BuyerZone.com online marketplace makes business transactions easier by providing multiple competitive price quotes on products and services across more than 125 categories including furniture, outsourced payroll services, security systems, telecommunications services, and software....

SupplyOn is a joint venture that provides an electronic marketplace for several European automotive suppliers. The company, with its several thousand customers in 70 countries, provides services that improve efficiency in purchasing, sales, logistics, product development, and quality processes....

Ableauctions.com is ready and willing to offer liquidation and merchandising services through its wide array of divisions and subsidiaries. Subsidiary Unlimited Closeouts provides liquidation services to companies with overstock, while iCollector.com offers live fine art, antique, and collectibles auctions....

"I got it on eBay" is barreling its way into the lexicon of the new millennium and placing a cyber-grin on the corporate face of online auctioneer extraordinaire eBay. The company is a cyber-forum for selling more than 50,000 categories of merchandise -- from Beanie Babies to fine antiques -- hosting about 500,000 online stores worldwide....

Exchange Blvd, conducting business as EB Auction Solutions, builds item-specific online auction marketplaces. The company provides the technology and support services to manufacturers and retailers interested in creating new online avenues to liquidate specialty products....

Those who don't know their Gallery of History are doomed to buy their memorabilia from another auction house. Gallery of History auctions autographs, memorabilia, and manuscripts from artists, authors, athletes, entertainers, politicians, and scientists. Items in its catalogs range from an autographed photo of poet Allen Ginsberg to letters from Albert Einstein....

Lacking minions to do your bidding? Do your own at Leland.com. Leland's Auctions specializes in sports memorabilia and fields bids from serious fans and collectors. It also offers pop culture collectibles and real-time, online bidding as part of its overall auction events....

Mercadolibre greases the wheels of commerce in Latin America. Its online trading service enables individuals and businesses to electronically arrange the sale and purchase of items in more than 2,000 categories. In addition to its auction and classified listing services, Mercadolibre offers an online payment service (MercadoPago) to further facilitate electronic transactions....

Looking to play David to eBay's Goliath, OnlineAuction.com offers an online auction marketplace for buyers and sellers of everything from collectibles to real estate. The company, aka OLA, charges sellers a flat monthly or yearly fee to list items for sale; it currently hosts more than 10.3 million items including the usual online auction fare as well as cars, RVs, and residential and commerical properties....

Tradus hopes to be Europe's answer to eBay. A leading European online auctioneer, Tradus provides consumer-to-consumer and business-to-consumer auctions in a dozen countries. The company, formerly known as QXL ricardo, phased out its practice of buying merchandise from manufacturers to sell to consumers....

This company wants to do your bidding. Enable Holdings (formerly uBid) runs an online auction in which buyers bid for refurbished and closeout merchandise -- mostly computers and consumer electronics products. Its more than 5 million users register for the auction at the company's Web site, where they also enter and monitor their bids, which may start as low as $1....