he internet is not all Rite Corporation, a footwear
about eBay, but that will company, in various capacities.
be very hard to prove to
some people. The auction site is Meg Whiteman was also employed by
the main and sometimes only the Walt Disney Company, an
destination for online shoppers entertainment company, most
these days, and you tell me this recently as senior vice
is not staggering if i tell you president, marketing, Disney
the site is adding to its online Consumer Products, she was also
customer base everyday. at Bain & Co, a consulting firm
and other reputable firms, but we
EBay was founded by Pierre will not go into much detail.
Omidyar a Paris native in his San
Jose living room back in Credit must be given to Meg
September 1995. It was from the Whitman for beating back three
beginning meant to be a tough competitors, Amazon.com,
marketplace for the sale of goods Yahoo and Lycos who tried to
and services to individuals, knock the site from its perch.
which to some extent, is still is
today. From its flea market - like
roots, the site now host auctions
In 1998, Pierre Omidyar and for big-ticket items such as
co-founder Jeff Skoll brought in automobiles and real estate. The
a woman called Meg Whitman to site has not just weathered the
mastermind the auction site's storm - it is steaming full speed
continuing expansion. ahead.
Meg Whitman who studied at the The online auction site has built
Harvard Business School had a strong online presence, it has
previously worked for the Stride been through some though times
since its inception, but that navigate, even for the novice
seems to make eBay even stronger. Internet user.
For those of you that have still
not heard about eBay, it is an EBay has built an online person -
online auction website, and it is person trading community on the
not just any auction site, but internet, using the World Wide
the biggest in the world. If you Web. Buyers and Sellers are
know how an offline auction brought together in a manner
works, then you already have an where sellers are permitted to
idea about how eBay works. list items for sale, buyers to
bid on items of interest and all
Most people are turning to eBay members to browse through listed
for their online shopping needs. items in a fully automated way.
The auction site has made it easy These items are arranged by
for shoppers with its topics, where each type of
user-friendly search facility. auction has its own category.
Just type the name of whatever
product you are after and eBay The site has spawned a whole
searches through its various industry of programs and websites
categories and comes up with catering to online auction buyers
various links relating to the and sellers. You can find help to
product in that category. Click list, buy, pay or sell. These
the link, and you are on your way days, selling on the site has
to your very first purchase on become a full time job for many
eBay. It is that easy. And it is people. Some sellers consistently
for this reason, most shoppers make more than $150,000.00 in
keep going back to eBay, not just monthly sales and there are over
for bargains, but because the 260,000 people selling on the
auction site has a user friendly auction site and this figure
interface and it is easy to keeps growing by the day.
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