The Bassatts and Rockman were then courted by James Packer and PBL scooped up 30 per cent of seek for $33 million. Now the company is worth close to $900 million.
There are two questions to be answered when assessing Fairfax’s succession of failures with online classifieds: is the internet a genuine threat to its business, and therefore a significant proportion of quality journalism in Australia? And will the new online classified operators have their own threats to face - threats that could make the Packer and Murdoch investments even bigger failures than those of Fairfax.
The answer to the first is undoubtedly yes, especially now that Packer and Murdoch control the No.1 sites and will fund and consolidate them.
It used to be felt that with low barriers to entry online classified margins would be low and market leadership hard to sustain. In fact it turns out that brand leadership is its own barrier to entry and with it comes margins that are very high.
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