Some ideas for ebid - No 1 - Change the name

[phoenixautosport]

a good point to remember is that you can keep the nuts and bolts of the site and apply differently branded front ends to it, so you can have several different sites targeting different markets but all using the same database of items for sale.

on another note bitcoin bay is the way forward since silk road was shut down there is a shed load of people with currency and few places to spend it

[squern]

To get back to the original idea - name change.
I can't speak for anywhere else, but in the UK company name changes have been associated with failing or disreputable people:

Con-men go bust, then open up again with a similar name.
Failing companies do not address their problems, just hide their old identities.

I worked for a large organisation for 15 years. During that time, it changed its name three times and in a period of 4 years, we had three different Chief Executives. The cost each time was enormous. (Signwriting all the vehicles, and a complete hospital, stationery, brochures and publicity material. But it didn't matter - it was public money)

So I worked for three different companies, without changing my job or location!

It would have gone bust, not only because of innefficiency, management incoherence, and political interference, but because of the waste*, but it was a public service (NHS), so was absorbed into another organisation.

To give examples of waste: Discarding wheelchairs if the tyres went flat. And buying new ones. They hired a skip, and PAID to have scrap metal taken away.

This is an extreme(?) example of the sort of organisations who resort to name change to boost flagging fortunes. I don't know that eBid's fortunes are flagging - I doubt it, with all the new buyers and sellers arriving.

But if they were, like any other company, they would need to address the real problems first, before resorting to cosmetic changes

[adruml]

BackRub to Google

Standard Oil to Amoco

Yeah, definitely wouldn't work here.

[Juliebabe25]

BackRub to Google

Standard Oil to Amoco.

Some good examples there!

Its just that any new name, as long it was easy to say and spell would be more marketable in the future.

[Gill]

Wait for the competition.

eBid has competition, so why change the name?

[squern]

Some good examples there!

Its just that any new name, as long it was easy to say and spell would be more marketable in the future.

What would be easier to say or spell that eBid - two syllables, four different letters?
eSell, eBIN, eMAO (possibilities of confusion in China, here), eList?

And WHY would that make the site more marketable?

I did hear of a site for posh Yorkshire people called ebayGum.

[Juliebabe25]

What would be easier to say or spell that eBid - two syllables, four different letters?
eSell, eBIN, eMAO (possibilities of confusion in China, here), eList?

And WHY would that make the site more marketable?

I did hear of a site for posh Yorkshire people called ebayGum.

I have already said why a new name would be more marketable and why ebid is not a good name in todays world.

And if it was a Yorkshire site surely it would be ebidgum ebidygum lad.

[tony41]

I have already said why a new name would be more marketable and why ebid is not a good name in todays world.

And if it was a Yorkshire site surely it would be ebidgum ebidygum lad.

You have said why you think a new name would be more marketable. However, it appears that most people in the forum don't agree with you.

You have missed the joke that it was a posh Yorkshire site.

[Juliebabe25]

You have said why you think a new name would be more marketable. However, it appears that most people in the forum don't agree with you.

Yes I think its running at about 1 to 20 in favour of changing the name.

[MPS16]

Yes I think its running at about 1 to 20 in favour of changing the name.

Dont take up gambling.

Its actually 20 to 1 against

Not 1 to 20 on a name change.