Keeping African Americans from Getting Lost in the Auction Shuffle
A new auction site named EthnicTrendz.com will feature stores and listings by African Americans from around the world, helping the Black community to more easily find and sell ethnic and specialty items.
Port St. Lucie, FL (PRWEB) March 21, 2005 -- A new auction site named
EthnicTrendz.com will feature stores and listings by African Americans from
around the world, helping the Black community to more easily find and sell
ethnic and specialty items. The site also aims to keep African American sellers
from getting buried among listings on general auction sites, and is available as
a free service through April 30, 2005.
“There are
plenty of valuable auction sites out there, most notably eBay,” says William
Moore, co-founder of EthnicTrendz. “The problem with those sites is that they
try to cover everything, so that niche markets get lost in the
mix.”
To help solve the problem, Moore and his wife,
Alicia, developed EthnicTrendz as a gathering place for African Americans around
the world – from the U.S. to the Caribbean, Africa, and elsewhere. The site
facilitates trade among this population, allowing for what Moore calls
“cooperative consumerism.”
“In our fast-paced and
somewhat faceless world, it’s hard to know anymore who manufactures,
distributes, and sells us our goods,” says Moore. “By having one site that
caters to the Black community, we can more easily support our own economic
infrastructure. This doesn’t exclude us from the rest of the world, but makes it
easy to support one another when that is our goal.”
To encourage trade
further, EthnicTrendz keeps selling fees relatively low. Starting with a free,
introductory period, it maintains lower prices than eBay for listings and added
features nearly across the board.
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Source : http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/3/prweb219773.htm