E-tailing with Chinese characteristics

Eachnet.com, a Chinese language online auction site, has its eyes on the title of China's largest consumer e-commerce community. The company claims to have 650,000 users and that its website receives more than 800,000 hits each day. The company also boasts that it has auctioned about $25 million worth of computer and technology related goods since its launch in August 1999. It says it can host over 35,000 simultaneous auctions.