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by paulddraper 2770 days ago
Sure. If a competitor has managed to get good consumer market share, then switching is easy. The marketplaces are not exclusive.

If, for example, HomeAway got a similar number of rentals to Airbnb (though in this particular case, it hasn't), then both markets could easily co-exist.

Creating C2C marketplaces, however, is not an easy task.