Economic downturn putting a hurt on eBayChicago Tribune, United States - 20 minutes agoAA slowing economy is taking a heavy toll, especially as eBay tries to reinvent itself because its online auction platform is slipping in popularity.
EBay vendor passes gigantic feedback milestoneThe Associated Press - Nov 13, 2008NEW YORK (AP) — If you've ever sold something on eBay, you may have been pleased to receive positive feedback from the buyer. Multiply that by a million,
EBay halts inauguration ticket salesCNET News, CA - Nov 14, 2008EBay on Thursday removed tickets for the upcoming presidential inauguration from its Web sites in an effort to help politicians curb scams.
Michigan man loses pennies on eBayMLive.com, MI - Nov 14, 2008At least one Michigan man was shafted when he sold some pennies on eBay. November 14, 2008: Bismarck Tribune: A Michigan man reported he sold $2532 worth of
MI5 Discover Al-Qaeda Buying Ambulances on EbayThe Epoch Times, NY - 1 hour agoSo serious is the problem that counter-terrorism officials at the Home Office have written to eBay, the Internet auctioneer, asking them to stop selling
Man faces trials in speed camera, eBay flapsEast Valley Tribune, AZ - Nov 14, 2008Shelton also is nearing trial in Maricopa County Superior Court on a felony theft charge that he did not deliver a car he sold on eBay to a buyer in Canada.
eBay Inc. is an American Internet company that manages eBay.com, an online auction and shopping website in which people and businesses buy and sell goods and services worldwide. In addition to its original U.S. website, eBay has established localized websites in thirty other countries. eBay Inc. also owns PayPal, Skype,[2] StubHub, Kijiji,and other businesses.
The online auction website was founded in San Jose, California, on September 3, 1995, by French-born Iranian computer programmer Pierre Omidyar as AuctionWeb,[3] part of a larger personal site that included, among other things, Omidyar's own tongue-in-cheek tribute to the Ebola virus.[4] In 1997, the company received approximately $5 million in funding from the venture capital firm Benchmark Capital.[5]
The very first item sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer for $14.83 (though in 2008, eBay banned the sale of laser pointers.[6]). Astonished, Omidyar contacted the winning bidder to ask if he understood that the laser pointer was broken. In his responding email, the buyer explained: "I'm a collector of broken laser pointers."[7] The frequently repeated story that eBay was founded to help Omidyar's fiancée trade PEZ Candy dispensers was fabricated by a public relations manager in 1997 to interest the media. This was revealed in Adam Cohen's 2002 book, The Perfect Store,[4] and confirmed by eBay.
Chris Agarpao was hired as eBay's first employee and Jeffrey Skoll was hired as the first president of the company in early 1996. In November 1996, eBay entered into its first third-party licensing deal, with a company called Electronic Travel Auction to use SmartMarket Technology to sell plane tickets and other travel products. The company officially changed the name of its service from AuctionWeb to eBay in September 1997. Originally, the site belonged to Echo Bay Technology Group, Omidyar's consulting firm. Omidyar had tried to register the domain name echobay.com (the domain has recently been put up for sale) but found it already taken by the Echo Bay Mines, a gold mining company, so he shortened it to his second choice, eBay.com.[8]
eBay went public on September 21[9], 1998, and both Omidyar and Skoll became instant billionaires.[7] The company purchased PayPal on October 14, 2002.
In addition to its original U.S. website, eBay has established localized websites in many other countries:
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The online auction site and its subsidiaries have decided not to allow the sale of coveted tickets to the Jan. 20 swearing-in ceremony of Barack Obama.
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