Consumer-To-Consumer (C2C) Electronic Commerce: The Recent Picture

Abstract

Consumer-to-consumer, the oldest form of e-commerce has facilitated in large part by websites offering free classified advertisements, auctions, forums, and individual pages for start-up entrepreneurs. C2C is a form of e-commerce we know, used well before internet appeared. Recently C2C is supported by large websites. Since its existence, C2C has gone through tremendous changes in technology as well as increase in market size and revenue from year to year. Due to its fast growing and increase in market size and revenue, there is the need to investigate the recent situation of C2C to determine how beneficial the growth is being to customers. This paper will discuss the recent statistics of C2C market size and revenue. The paper will also discuss the origin, definition, business model, advantages and disadvantages of C2C e-commerce. The paper will further look at some features of C2C e-commerce website.

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