Buying and Selling on eBay

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Buying and Selling on eBay
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Whats on eBay?

• Anything and everything is available on eBay . .
  . Almost
• Cars, boats, real estate, collectibles, concert
  tickets, CDs, clothing, DVDs, artwork, various
  services, gift certificates, books, discount
  coupons, houses and even airplanes.

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History of eBay

• Founded by Pierre Omidyar with partner Jeff Skoll
  in 1995
• First item sold was a broken laser pointer for
  14.83. Astonished Pierre contacted the winning
  bidder to ask if he understood the laser pointer
  was broken. The buyer replied Im a collector
  of broken laser pointers.
• Name started as AuctionWeb - EchoBay - eBay

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• Meg Whitman CEO and President 1998
• 30 employees, half a million users and
  revenues of 4.7 million in the U.S.
• eBay went public September 21, 1998 and Pierre
  with his partner Jeff Skoll became instant
  billionaires.
• Target share price was 18, but went to 53.50
  first day of trading

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• eBay bought PayPal October 14, 2002 for 1.5
  billion dollars.
• eBay now has 15,000 employees and hundreds of
  millions of registered users all over the world.
• Their revenues are in excess of 7.7 billion.

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Statistics

• 26 billion SQL queries every day
• Over 100 million items available for purchase at
  any given moment
• Over 1 billion photos exist on website
• 1 billion page views per day

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Interesting Auctions

• Human kidney Sold for over 5 million dollars
  before eBay pulled listing
• Highest priced item sold so far Private
  business jet for 4.9 million
• Seattle man sold his soul for 400.00

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Forbidden Items

• Immoral, illegal, or just plain distasteful
• Fireworks, guns and firearms including
  collectibles
• Drugs, paraphernalia and alcohol
• Items related to crimes such as letters from
  murderers, crime scene memorabilia and seats to
  view executions
• Body parts and human remains