Shopzilla was founded in 1996 by Farhad Mohit and Henri Asseily by the name of binary compass enterprises. It was a price comparison service bit in 1999 it changed its name and became bizrate.com. In the end of 2004 name was again changed and it became shopzilla.

The basic purpose of making this portal was to provide people with a source or place to compare prices and products and from different vendors. In June 2005 E.W Scripts Company purchased shopzilla for $525 million and started its services by following aggressive marketing campaigns. The idea flourished in 2006 when only in the month of May shopzilla recorded 20 million unique visitors in that month.

Shopzilla is serving its customers through its websites in U.S., UK, French and German markets. Headquarter is in Los Angles, California. The main income stream for shopzilla is by generating leads for merchants for which shopzilla is offering pay per click marketing model to its publishers. It depends on merchants, how much they offer for their product to be in no.1 place on shopzilla. Normally PPC for each product depends on the competition for that product by merchants. Shopzilla also runs its website on the basis of reviews by customers and most importantly on the basis of “Shop Rank” given by customers to each product. Surely they have given good idea and I must say facility for customers to make better selections when going to purchase anything even from any vendor. On this basis I can easily say, when it comes to comparison shopping, best name that comes into mind is shopzilla.

eBay is an online auction store providing sell and buy opportunities to people on their desired prices. This is an American company, eBay Inc. that also runs some other big companies like PayPal, Skype and StubHub. Along with the main website running for us people, eBay operates its services in other countries with 30 localized websites.                             

eBay was found in 19995 by French-born Iranian computer programmer Pierre Omidyar. It was started in San Jose, California and in beginning was a tribute to the Ebola virus as a part of his website. Company changed its name form auctionweb to eBay in 1997 when they started a business with Electronic Travel Auction to sell plane tickets through SmartMarket Technology. Company started its services publicly in September 1998 and soon both Omidyar and Skoll became billionaires.

Ebay.com recorded 902 million visitors in last year which is almost three times more than the visitors of walmart. Customer support on eBay has been phenomenal all the time. This awesome support includes library of self-help resources and e-mail contact forms. Along with these opportunities people can have instant contact with customer support representative. Phone support is not available to all customers but it is limited sellers with rank “Bronze PowerSeller”. Overall help desk by eBay is appreciable. Finally all this was a start and story up till now and taking a view of this all I can say eBay is best online auction web store!

Amazon.com is one of the pioneer companies who started to sell good on internet. It is an American electronic ecommerce company in Seattle, Washington.               

Amazon was founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994 and started online business in 1995.   In the beginning it was a bookstore but soon it started to diversify its focus on products. With in few years it became biggest online store on internet which was offering computer software, video games, electronics, apparel, VHS, DVD, music CDs, MP3 format, food, toys, etc.

With the passage of time amazone.com has grown very well and showing profits for last many years. Especially when it comes to offering support services or selling their goods, they have no competitors which can put them in secondary position of online stores. Not only is this but the affiliate program started by this portal also appreciable due to commission structure and high quality staff assistance to publishers. As far as its business worth is concerned, it has gain good position after merger with SBC Communications. Just an example of its business success is the profit, U.S.$8.5 billion in 2005, and U.S.$10.7 billion in 2006. This is all what makes amazone.com a reliable name in the list of online shopping stores!