{"id":275,"date":"2006-12-19T09:53:01","date_gmt":"2006-12-19T15:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/?p=275"},"modified":"2006-12-19T10:34:06","modified_gmt":"2006-12-19T16:34:06","slug":"what-is-so-special-about-gmarket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/?p=275","title":{"rendered":"What is so special about Gmarket?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am asking myself the question, what is so special about Gmarket Inc. (NASDAQ: GMKT)?  Jim Cramer made a mention about it on his show yesterday, and was going on about how it is going to take on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.com\">EBay<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\">Amazon<\/a>.  I had never heard of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gmarket.co.kr\">Gmarket<\/a> before, and neither had a lot of people.  The site itself is a Korean auction site, with very little that would appeal to the regular North American.  The site does NOT have a very aesthetic appearance.  Pictures are flipping out from animations, and the site over-uses images with very little text.  I have no idea why Jim would think the site looks better than Ebay.  From an economical perspective, there is a good chance that this company would do very well in Korea.\u00c2\u00a0 Probably even beat the American competition like Ebay. Although, that is probably going to be the only market for this company. If they tried to enter the North American market, they would lose because we won&#8217;t put up with ugly looking webpages.\u00c2\u00a0 When designing retail websites these days, one of the key components is a nice clean design.\u00c2\u00a0 Too bad Gmarket didn&#8217;t listen and their site is UGLY.  Luckily for Jim, people don&#8217;t do a lot of research, and jump at whatever he says.  The stock is up 1.64 or 8.01% to 22.12 in early trading today.  I expect that the stock will fall back down to its previous trading prices after a week, and then the stock will be a decent deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am asking myself the question, what is so special about Gmarket Inc. (NASDAQ: GMKT)? Jim Cramer made a mention about it on his show yesterday, and was going on about how it is going to take on EBay, and Amazon. I had never heard of Gmarket before, and neither had a lot of people. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/?p=275\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What is so special about Gmarket?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stocks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}