In case anyone was wondering what the service was:<p>"It was a web site where sellers offered items for sale at fixed prices. The items available on half.com are limited to books, textbooks, music, movies, video games, and video game consoles."[0]<p>It curiously is also the reason why a town in Oregon was named "Half.com" for an entire year in '99[1]. Man, those dot-com days...<p>[0]<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half.com" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half.com</a><p>[1]<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halfway,_Oregon#Half.com_name_change" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halfway,_Oregon#Half.com_name_...</a>
Half.com was useful back when Ebay was more of a strict auction site. I remember using it circa 2001 or so to buy some rare PS1 games. I may have used it as recently as 2008 or so to buy textbooks. Now-a-days, most Ebay Sellers have "stores" anyway, where stuff is strictly on a Buy it Now price, so half.com is basically obsolete.
Wow this was a name I hadn't heard in about 15 years. The cycle of life is real on the web. A business is born, thrives, and dies. Rest easy old friend.
Sad to hear it. I just started selling my old books on half.com and found the experience to be pretty great. I sold a couple hundred dollars worth of books in a month or two.
I am a bit surprised by this in some ways, but not in others. Half.com was a decent place for textbooks, but they've gone down hill in recent years. Ebay never seemed to do much development though; logging into my old seller dashboard I found it looked nearly the same as it did a decade ago- and it seemed old back then.<p>I imagine the half.com domain is worth quite a bit. I wonder what their plans for it are?
They have some of the worst scores I have ever seen on consumer advocacy sites.<p>Seems like either they had a model that doesn't work in this day and age or just a site that tries to scam every last cent it can while it lasts.