Typically dutch
One of the things I love when I walk around in the city is looking for bargains. People always say that Dutchmen always carefully watch their money and are stingy, so I am a very good example of a dutchman. In every shop there is always something on sale, so I always find interesting things
In addition to that, there is a very popular dutch site (www.marktplaats.nl), which litterally means market place), that sells almost everything, form stamps to cars and from books to houses, all second hand though. Here is how it works: people can post the things they want to get rid of, other people want to buy it and get in contact with the ones who sell it. It is really just a bulletin board, but categorised.
this site was made by a couple of student, who sold it around the year 2000 for approximately $ 650.000. Last year, ebay bought the site for over 200 million dollars, which proves how popular the site is.
The only money they can make with the site, is the 6 dollars someone has to pay to place an ad for something that costs more than 200 dollars. An ad for a book of 50 dollars is free, an ad for a car of 3000 dollars costs 6 bucks. This means that there has to be 40 million people who will pay those 6 dollars, to break even. And to think that the Netherlands just has 16 million citizens. Those students who were happy with their 650.000 dollars would've smacked their heads when they read this.
In addition to that, there is a very popular dutch site (www.marktplaats.nl), which litterally means market place), that sells almost everything, form stamps to cars and from books to houses, all second hand though. Here is how it works: people can post the things they want to get rid of, other people want to buy it and get in contact with the ones who sell it. It is really just a bulletin board, but categorised.
this site was made by a couple of student, who sold it around the year 2000 for approximately $ 650.000. Last year, ebay bought the site for over 200 million dollars, which proves how popular the site is.
The only money they can make with the site, is the 6 dollars someone has to pay to place an ad for something that costs more than 200 dollars. An ad for a book of 50 dollars is free, an ad for a car of 3000 dollars costs 6 bucks. This means that there has to be 40 million people who will pay those 6 dollars, to break even. And to think that the Netherlands just has 16 million citizens. Those students who were happy with their 650.000 dollars would've smacked their heads when they read this.
posted by J. Lamer @ 9:28 AM
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