Huuto.net

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Huuto.net
Huuto.net screenshot.png
Type of site
Online auction
Available in Finnish
OwnerePrice Oy
Created byLari Lohikoski
URL huuto.net
CommercialYes
RegistrationRequired for bidding and selling
LaunchedJanuary 1999

Huuto.net is a Finnish online auctioning website. It was established in 1999 and has been owned by ePrice Oy since 2019.

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The main differences between Huuto.net and eBay are:

The name of the website is derived from huutokauppa (Finnish for "auction").

On August 18, 2007, Huuto.net had more than 500,000 items on sale. [1] By March 26, 2014, this had risen to over 1.8 million items. [2]

History

Huuto.net was created in January 1999 by Lari Lohikoski in Helsinki. It was a private service until the art auction Bukowskis bought it from Lohikoski in September 1999. Bukowski announced they would develop Huuto.net into an international auction of collectibles, but it was never done. Instead, they sold the website to Sonera Plaza Oyj in May 2001. After the fusion of Sonera Plaza with Sonera, which later combined with Telia to form TeliaSonera, Huuto.net followed along.

TeliaSonera concentrated heavily on its telephone operator business and neglected many unrelated branches, Huuto.net being one of them. Thus, the website did not develop much in the ownership of TeliaSonera and its functionality suffered. In June 2005 TeliaSonera sold Huuto.net to Ilta-Sanomat Oy and the website became the most popular Finnish classified advertising service. In 2019 Huuto.net was sold to ePrice Oy.

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