glossary:e:ebay

eBay

eBay is an American company, which runs the worldwide biggest online auction site.

It was founded in 1995 by Pierre Omidyar as “AuctionWeb”¹⁾. First it was a pure C2C market place but then eBay widened its scope within the last years also for the B2C market. eBay Inc. gained a revenue of 11.651 billion US-Dollars in 2011²⁾.

See also

¹⁾ Marth, Michael. Zehn Jahre Ebay Deutschland: Erfolgsgeschichte am Limit. FOCUS Online: 26/02/2009. Web. 02/12/2012. http://www.focus.de/digital/internet/ebay/zehn-jahre-ebay-deutschland-erfolgsgeschichte-am-limit_aid_374654.html

²⁾ Statista RSS. Rep. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Dec. 2012.http://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/74244/umfrage/umsatz-von-ebay-seit-2007-quartalszahlen/

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