Talk:Online marketplace

Proposed merge with EMarketPlace
should either be merged or redirected to Online marketplace nothing worth salvaging here Theroadislong (talk) 21:19, 21 November 2014 (UTC)

Proposed merge with EMarketPlace
The Online Marketing Intermediaries section has multiple grammar and spelling mistakes. Is someone who's well versed in online marketplaces able to clean it up?

This article presents unmitigated OR in Wikipedia's voice
This article needs a rewrite. The term "online marketplace" (and synonyms like web marketplace, e-marketplace, internet marketplace, etc.) are widely used, and Wikipedia will do readers a service by citing RS that describe these services.

According to Cambridge dictionary, an e-marketplace is "the internet, as a place where organizations and consumers exchange information and do business."

IGI Global lists an informative range of ways the term "e-marketplace" is used e.g. "A Web-based system that facilitates and encourages buying and selling to induce collaboration among trading partners across a selection of industries" or "A virtual space that provides infrastructure services for buyers and sellers to meet and conduct business transactions online" or "A form of doing business that uses Internet technology to bring together multiple vendor and customer firms at a single Web site or platform in order to make trade." Not one of these definitions requires that the entity running the online marketplace must also be the entity conducting all sales transactions. HouseOfChange (talk) 18:53, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Here is quite a good article in Forbes we could use; this website also covers useful ground in a clear way. HouseOfChange (talk) 02:31, 7 May 2020 (UTC)