Paper Proposal
I’d like to write my paper about www.marktplaats.nl. Www.marktplaats.nl is an intermediary site for people who are searching commodities or buyers of theirs’. I want to tell in comprehensive matter about the site and therefore my questions are: ‘What is www.marktplaats.nl and how is it used? I have made an index for my chapter, although they might differ from the final one.
Chapter 1: Introduction
In this foreword I’d like to inform why I’ve chosen www.markplaats.nl for this paper. That would basically be because I have used it several times and I think it has enough participatory information to use it for my paper.
Chapter 2.1: What is www.marktplaats.nl
In this chapter I want to tell what www.marktplaats.nl is. It is an intermediating site between salesmen and buyers.
In chapter 2.2 I want to tell how the site works. How can you put your advertisement on the web and how do you get in contact with other buyers or sellers.
Chapter 3: Creator
If I can find any information about the creators of the site I’d like to put it in this chapter.
Chapter 4.1: The law
What does the law say about second-hand transactions via Internet. My housemate studies law, so I’ll find out about it. To look further with this chapter, the second chapter
Chapter 4.2 will be about the safety. How safe is it to transact via Internet? And does the site provide any protection as well?
Chapter 5: Legal versus illegal
Almost all advertisements are legal in the sentence that products were once bought and are now being offered for sale. But what about the illegal practises? A Lot of stolen goods can be sold very easily via the Internet. Also I see a lot of advertisements that say “I’ll burn you’re CD for €5,-. Send me a list of tracks and I’ll make it for you.”
Can you report those things? Do people even care it’s illegal?
Chapter 6.1: Level of participation and the practice
A lot of users participate on www.marktplaats.nl, but how? What do the advertisements look like and can there be spoken of competition between sellers and buyers? How do the www.marktplaats.nl users get in touch with each other and how at the end does the transaction gets done?
Chapter 6.2: Can the site be seen as efficient?
Is dealing through the Internet an efficient way to find what you are looking for? Is it the way to get rid of you’re stuff?
Chapter 7.1: Comparison
Now we’ve seen how the site works and how it is used I want to compare the site with the traditional forms of second-hand transactions. Is it quicker or not and would the traditional forms disappear?
Chapter 7.2
In this chapter I’d like to compare the site other sites second-handling sites like www.ebay.nl. In what ways would www.marktplaats.nl be better, or not. What are the differences and does the site I grade as better have more participants as well?
Chapter 8: Conclusion
I want to summarize how www.marktplaats.nl works and why it should be seen as a safe site or not. Furthermore I want to briefly say again how the people use it and if it’s a benefit site or not. Is it a helpful site and does it work correctly?
Chapter 9: Discussions
9.1 Recommendations for my paper. What did go wrong, what should I have done differently?
9.2 Recommendations for the site. What should, in my eyes, change for the benefit of www.marktplaats.nl
9.3 And at last recommendations for other researchers or research projects.
Chapter 10: Literature
What information I have used.
The site of course, the books of law and some other websites.