In a never say die attitude Sensis are changing their online strategy again. Late last year they virtually abandoned their justlisted.com.au site and made it a simple doorway site to Domain’s data but now they want www.tradingpost.com.au to change to an auction system and take on the mighty ebay.

Sensis bought www.tradingpost.com.au in 2004 for a massive $636 million dollars and the business has been sliding back on them since then.

Some pretty big claims have been coming out of Sensis lately, including one that states “2 million people” already use www.tradingpost.com.au each month. Sensis were trying to hold this up against ebay’s 5 million account holders to show that they might gain traction in online auctions.

Now that has to be PR spin plain and simple. After reading this I quickly surveyed the next 20 people I met and not one person had visited www.tradingpost.com.au within the past several months and most have never visited it at all. (more…)

As predicted on this site Just Listed has begun bundling the Just Listed Guide (Sydney)in with the Trading Post Newspaper. This could be the start of Just Listed going nationwide, or it could be the start of Just Listed going down. Whilst the bundling of Just Listed (owned by Sensis) makes some sense for Sensis (sorry) but it could have a negative impact on the magazines value. Here’s why!
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