A bit of VRM Alchemy

Wednesday, March 12. 2008

A bit of VRM Alchemy

One of the areas in VRM that needs fleshing out is how the market environments may work, and I've been fascinated by examples of existing C2B (Customer to Business) markets - and one of the most interesting ones was Etsy's Alchemy.

In essence it allows the customer to specify what they want, and a guide price, and a due date. Suppliers bid to do it (or not).

What is interesting is that it was culled in Etsy version 2 in mid 2006, but by (apparently) popular demand has now been brought back. (tip of hat to A VC for the notification)

Posted by Alan Patrick in Web Services / Cloud Computing at 21:19 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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