Saturday, October 29, 2011

Racism on eBay?

"We investigate the impact of seller race in a field experiment involving baseball card auctions on eBay. Photographs showed the cards held by either a dark-skinned/African-American hand or a light-skinned/Caucasian hand. Cards held by African-American sellers sold for approximately 20% ($0.90) less than cards held by Caucasian sellers, and the race effect was more pronounced in sales of minority player cards." Research.

1 comment:

zippy said...

Im sure Ebay places Citys of color down to the bottom of page.Ebay calls it Best Match.Very sad..........