Consumer - to – Consumer (C2C)

Website following C2C business model helps consumer to sell their assets like residential property, cars, motorcycles etc. or rent a room by publishing their information on the website.

Website may or may not charge the consumer for its services. Another consumer may select to buy the product of the first consumer by viewing the post/advertisement on the website.

Thus in C2C business model, consumers sell directly to the other consumers via online classified ads and auctions, or by selling personal services or expertise online.

For example – ebay.com (auction) and TraderOnline.com (classified ads),Hamrobazaar.com

         

Thus in C2C business model, consumers sell directly to the other consumers via online classified ads and auctions, or by selling personal services or expertise online.

For example – ebay.com (auction) and TraderOnline.com (classified ads)

There are a number of new consumer-to-consumer expert information exchanges such as AskMe.com, abuzz, InfoRocket.com (one of the first question-and-answer marketplaces) which is an person-to-person auction format.