eBay
The original mass-market venue for second-hand and collectible goods. Thirty years of completed-listing data makes it the de facto price discovery mechanism for a vast range of objects no exchange would ever list.
Traded here
- Barter & mutual credit Trading goods and skills directly, or through a local credit unit, without sterling ever being involved — the… Services, time & capacity
- Domain names Rented strings of text with no intrinsic value and occasionally seven-figure prices, transferred in minutes r… Rights, claims & intangibles
- Event tickets A time-stamped licence to occupy a seat, resold in a market where the UK has taken an unusually interventioni… Rights, claims & intangibles
- Luxury watches A market that briefly behaved like a financial asset, corrected hard, and settled back into being about scarc… Collectibles & physical goods
- Personalised registrations A string of characters on a car, sold by the state, held on a retention certificate — Britain’s purest market… Rights, claims & intangibles
- Retired LEGO sets Completed listings are the price reference Collectibles & physical goods
- Sneakers Mass-produced footwear turned into a liquid, screen-traded market by limited releases and authentication plat… Collectibles & physical goods
- Trading cards The primary price discovery mechanism, through completed sales Collectibles & physical goods
- Used cars Private sales and the classified market Collectibles & physical goods