Three major e-commerce business models selected Business-to-Business (B2B), Business-to-Consumer (B2C), Consumer-to-Consumer (C2C), Consumer-to-Business (C2B), Business-to-Administration (B2A), and Consumer-to-Administration (C2A). For each of the e-commerce business models that are listed above, could you please provide an example of a scenario in which the selected business model would be most appropriate and explain why? Also could you please provide an example scenario for each business model that would not be appropriate and explain why?

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I have written the answer below. I have provided one scenario and based on that I have told which model is appropriate for it and why other models are not appropriate for that scenario. Please do give a read to the below answer.

Step-by-step explanation

Consider a scenario where the business or organization's focus is to deliver its products and services to the client which are the consumers. For this scenario, Business-to-Consumer (B2C) is the perfect e-commerce business model because the business has to sell the products directly to the consumers. The customer can view the product on the business website and can directly purchase the product through an online payment. Since the interaction is needed only between the business and the consumer B2C model is the most appropriate model for this scenario.

Let us consider the same scenario in which the business has to sell the products and services to its valuable customers and see why business models other than Business-to-Consumer are not suitable.

First Business-to-Business (B2B) is not appropriate for this given scenario. This is because in this model first, the business sells the product to the other organization, and then the organization will sell the product to the consumer.

Consumer-to-Consumer (C2C) is not the appropriate model for this given scenario. This is because in this model works between two consumers who want to sell their assets with each other. The consumer publishes the product which he wants to sell on the website and the other consumer can purchase the product.

Consumer-to-Business (C2B) is also not the appropriate model for this scenario. This is because in this model the consumer makes the service available online at the specified price. The business which can fulfill the consumer requirements within the consumer specified budget get the service and can approach the customer. The Customer-to-Business (C2B) model is used in FreeLancing.

Business-to-Administration (B2A) is not suitable because in this model the business provides services to the government. These services can be provided through a website to the government.

Also, Consumer-to-Administration is a model in which the consumers are delivering the services to the administrative sector therefore it is not suitable for the above-given scenario. 

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