Blog Post #8- March 28th, 2011- "The Orange Bazaar" Final Summary Post

"The Orange Bazaar" is basically a version of the very popular website eBay, where customers can buy or sell any type of product they are interested in from other users for a cheap price. eBay is a very visual website; the website contains pictures of the products being sold, and it also contains profiles of the prospective buyers and sellers. My entrepreneurial idea is another version of that website, but is restricted to students at Syracuse University. The website will gain popularity because students know where the products are coming from, and therefore can trust their whereabouts.

I originally came up with the idea for this website when trying to think of ways to sell textbooks easily and efficiently. I figured that I would feel most comfortable buying a textbook from another Syracuse University student, because I know for sure that the book is the correct one, and that it is coming from a person that I can identify with. However, I decided to not limit the website to just textbooks, and therefore expanded its product base. The website now includes Syracuse University sports tickets, as well as Syracuse University apparel and appliances, such as microfridges. If a student has season tickets to all the home basketball games but has to miss one game, that single ticket should no go to waste, and should in fact go to another Syracuse University student willing to buy it.

Another interesting factor about the website, called "The Orange Bazaar" is that it is not open to everyone. In order to register for the website, students must have a @syr.edu email address, making the website private and only open to current students. This, in my opinion, makes the website safer because everyone knows where the products are coming from and who they are selling to or buying from. It also makes giving or receiving the products easier because everyone is in close proximity with one another, so there wouldn't be a long wait time for delivery after you buy a product. "The Orange Bazaar," Syracuse University's version of the website eBay makes buying and selling products easy and efficient, because the client base is very exclusive and everyone knows where everything on that website is coming from.

Here are the url's to the blogs that I posted comments on:

http://bjkillen.blogspot.com/

http://thektriplerist195.blogspot.com/

http://mcnally-megan.blogspot.com/