Selected news stories about the Pew Internet Project and articles citing our data.
Growing numbers of people online are selling something
11/28/2005 | 
Coverage
Michael Bazeley, The Mercury News
'"We may be entering the height of the online buying season, but people are doing a lot of selling online, too, according to a new survey.
One in six American adults online has sold something through an Internet classified ad or auction site, according to the Pew Internet and American Life Project. On any given day, 2 percent of Internet users are selling online.
The data confirms what Internet watchers have long known -- that the Internet has evolved into a global bazaar, where people buy and trade a wide array of collectibles, knickknacks, furniture, clothes and other used items.
Much of the online traffic is going to Web sites such as San Jose auctioneer eBay and San Francisco-based classified ads site craigslist, which now has 190 sites in all 50 U.S. states and 35 countries.
"Each time a new area or region gets its own craigslist site, it's a coming of age for them,'' said Pew director Lee Rainie. ``It's like, `We've made it to the digital age.' It's like in the pre-Internet age getting a new ballpark or a new factory.''
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