Remember the good old fashioned auction where you rocked up and could crawl all over the goods, picking and pocking at it to see whether there was something wrong with it?

I remember when people where reluctant to buy things from auction for the fear of buying someone else's problems even when they could inspect it before auction including the fact that most reputable auction houses even did some kind of pre inspection on goods and let you know there was something wrong with it.

And now. Now you can go to online auction centers and buy anything you can think of from just about any part of the world. How times change.

Well .... what changed?

Was it the convienience of easily being able to locate goods?

Or the fact you didnt have to wait for auction day as there are auctions taking place every minute of the day.

Or the rise and rise of the internet as a shopping tool.

Or brand name marketing that gained consumer trust and the mass marketing of it's services namely e bay.

Going to have to research that one.

Looking around traditional auction centres they all have websites now (and what business shouldn't) and most have some kind of online auction system in place as well as there traditional style.

So how long will it be before they all move to online?