This article addresses the difficulties for businesses of trying to use exchanges and auctions to sell to other businesses (B2B). "Upstart stand-alone auctions that tried to be the eBay or Nasdaq Stock Market for specific industries failed to attract enough buyers and sellers to make the market efficient."
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16241-2001Jun19.html
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