Question

What is the difference between e commerce websites and auction websites?

Answer 1

Commerce website means purchasing things online.

Answer 2

As for online marketplace, it is a two- or even multi-sided platforms where buyers and sellers congregate for transactions to happen. There are merchants as well as consumers who are usually the buyers on these platforms. There is a wide spectrum of marketplaces as it can be for the B2B (business-to-business) community or B2C (business-to-consumer) and even C2C (consumer-to-consumer) or P2P (peer-to-peer) depending on the target audience of the marketplace.