Crowdly

A marketplace for buying and selling used clothes

An online platform for people to exchange used clothes for free

An auction where sellers bid increasingly lower amounts to offer the same service

The unique characteristic of all "auction" models in e-marketplaces is that:

Only private individuals can participate, and not businesses

There is one seller but many buyers

You pay a small fee every time you make a bid

The price of the goods or services will change depending on the bids made

A private e-marketplace belonging to BMW where its parts manufacturers can provide details of parts availability and prices would be:

A buy-side B2B marketplace

A sell-side B2B marketplace

A C2C e-marketplace

A B2C e-marketplace

An example of online "disintermediation" would be:

Online Travel Agencies (OTAs) selling tickets on behalf of the airlines

Airlines selling tickets directly instead of through Online Travel Agencies (OTAs)

Amazon.com replacing the physical bookstore

Netflix replacing the broadcast TV channels

An example of a C2B e-commerce model would be:

An e-marketplace where translators offer their translation services to companies

A supplier bids on a purchase request made by a large retailer

A platform where a government sells used office equipment to its citizens

A "flea market" mobile app selling between individuals

A "click and mortar" e-commerce organisation is an organisation which:

Sells its goods in physical stores but orders are only taken online

Sells its goods and services both offline and online

Sells its goods through digital Point of Sale terminals inside physical stores

Sells its goods and services only offline but does advertising online

"B2C" refers to a business which:

Sells its products to other businesses

Sells its products online

Sells its products to (private) customers

Sells only physical products or services

"Pure Electronic Commerce" refers to a business which:

Performs the ordering, processing and delivery of its goods digitally

Has no bricks and mortar stores

Sells only physical products or services

Only accepts customer orders online

The activity of any business to buy or sell goods or services over the Internet

E-commerce refers to:

Any business which performs at least some part of its activities digitally, e.g. on the Internet

Businesses which perform all of their activities online

Any business whose name begins with E

E-business refers to:

Businesses which perform all of their activities online

The activity of any business to buy or sell goods or services over the Internet

Any business which performs at least some part of its activities digitally, e.g. on the Internet

Any business whose name begins with E