Keeping African Americans from Getting Lost in the Auction Shuffle

A new auction site named EthnicTrendz.com will feature stores and listings by African Americans from around the world, helping the Black community to more easily find and sell ethnic and specialty items.

Port St. Lucie, FL (PRWEB) March 21, 2005 -- A new auction site named EthnicTrendz.com will feature stores and listings by African Americans from around the world, helping the Black community to more easily find and sell ethnic and specialty items. The site also aims to keep African American sellers from getting buried among listings on general auction sites, and is available as a free service through April 30, 2005.
   
There are plenty of valuable auction sites out there, most notably eBay," says William Moore, co-founder of EthnicTrendz. The problem with those sites is that they try to cover everything, so that niche markets get lost in the mix."
   
To help solve the problem, Moore and his wife, Alicia, developed EthnicTrendz as a gathering place for African Americans around the world -- from the U.S. to the Caribbean, Africa, and elsewhere. The site facilitates trade among this population, allowing for what Moore calls cooperative consumerism."
   
In our fast-paced and somewhat faceless world, its hard to know anymore who manufactures, distributes, and sells us our goods," says Moore. By having one site that caters to the Black community, we can more easily support our own economic infrastructure. This doesnt exclude us from the rest of the world, but makes it easy to support one another when that is our goal."

To encourage trade further, EthnicTrendz keeps selling fees relatively low. Starting with a free, introductory period, it maintains lower prices than eBay for listings and added features nearly across the board.

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