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The History of eBay
eBay was founded in Pierre Omidyar's San Jose living room back
in September 1995. It was from the start meant to be a marketplace
for the sale of goods and services for individuals.
In 1998, Pierre and his cofounder Jeff Skoll brought in Meg
Whitman to sustain the success. Meg had studied at the Harvard
Business School and had learned the importance of branding at
companies such as Hasbro.
Meg culled her senior staff from companies such as Pepsico and
Disney, created an experienced management team with an average
of 20 years of business experience and built a strong vision
for the company -- that eBay is a company that's in the business
of connecting people, not selling them things.
They quickly shed the image of only auctioning collectibles
and moved into an array of upscale markets where the average
sale price (ASP) is higher. ASP is a key metric in determining
eBay's transaction fees, so increasing the ASP became an important
item. By forging partnerships with namebrands such as GM, Disney
and Sun, eBay has managed to do exactly that. Sun has sold
$10 million worth of equipment and it now lists between 20 and
150 items per day.
The Business Model
eBay has built an online person-to-person trading community
on the Internet, using the World Wide Web. Buyers and sellers
are brought together in a manner where sellers are permitted
to list items for sale, buyers to bid on items of interest and
all eBay users to browse through listed items in a fully automated
way. The items are arranged by topics, where each type of auction
has its own category.
eBay has both streamlined and globalized traditional person-to-person
trading, which has traditionally been conducted through such
forms as garage sales, collectibles shows, flea markets and more,
with their web interface. This facilitates easy exploration for
buyers and enables the sellers to immediately list an item for
sale within minutes of registering.
Browsing and bidding on auctions is free of charge, but sellers
are charged two kinds of charges:
When an item is listed on eBay a nonrefundable Insertion Fee
is charged, which ranges between 30 cents and $3.30, depending
on the seller's opening bid on the item.
A fee is charged for additional listing options to promote the
item, such as highlighted or bold listing.
A Final Value (final sale price) fee is charged at the end
of the seller's auction. This fee generally ranges from 1.25%
to
5% of the final sale price.
eBay notifies the buyer and seller via e-mail at the end of
the auction if a bid exceeds the seller's minimum price, and
the
seller and buyer finish the transaction independently of eBay.
The binding contract of the auction is between the winning
bidder and the seller only.

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