this is a question from quora
http://www.quora.com/Are-there-any-big-peer-to-peer-or-collaborative-consumption-marketplaces-in-China
here’s a list of chinese p2p or collaborative consumption marketplace web sites,first 3 are all craiglist style sites:
1. http://www.ganji.com
2. http://www.baixing.com
3. http://www.58.com
4. http://www.douban.com/location
overall, i do not think this p2p market in china is big so far;
there’re many small markets in this category,
1. say, in big universities’ bbs, there’s usually a board named 2nd market, where students will exchange textbooks and other things;
2. in many local community sites, there are also such board that will facilitate the p2p market;
but maybe now (2011) it’s going to be big soon.
I think the p2p space will become huge over the next year or two. China will follow.
probably, in china i can some trends about the p2p market growing; the p2p trading is more hot than before;
when there’re enough people want to do p2p trading, it might be huge;