Online auctions made it likely for everyone with an internet connection to take part. It also opened the auction market in a way that hadn't foreseen. What had been other's rubbish once have been discarded now went up for auction and repeatedly proved to be someone else's treasure. Nowadays online auctions have become a giant industry. Online, bidders take trust on the fact that the sellers really have an item to sell and that is in the same condition as described. One vital factor with online auctions is trust. These auctions made the concept of the auction, both for buying and selling, well-liked and an industry has full-fledged up around them. In a lot of ways, they become the largest success story the auction business has ever had.