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About Ebay. Worlds Largest E-commerce Site Founded by Pierre Omidyar September 1985 as Auction Web First item sold was an old broken laser printer that was about to be thrown out – it was put up as a test item and sold for $14.83 Company was Re-launched in 1997 as Ebay
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Kevin Smith About Ebay Worlds Largest E-commerce Site Founded by Pierre Omidyar September 1985 as Auction Web First item sold was an old broken laser printer that was about to be thrown out – it was put up as a test item and sold for $14.83 Company was Re-launched in 1997 as Ebay Transactions in 1997 up to 200,000 a month compared to 250,000 for the whole of 1996 1999 sees Ebay going international opening sites in Germany, Australia and the UK
Kevin Smith Ebid Http://uk.ebid.net CQOut WWW.cqout.com Bumblebee www..bumblebeeauctions.co.uk Delcampe Www.delcampe.com Other Auction Sites
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Kevin Smith 2002 Ebay buys PayPal 2005 Ebay buys Gumtree 2005 Buys Skype but sells again in 2009 2008 Jack Sheng of Eforcity first to reach a feedback score of 1 million 2010 Total Value of goods sold tops $62 Billion that's more than $2,000 every Second 2011 Ebay now has more than 97 Million members worldwide More Recent
Kevin Smith Vehicles A passenger Vehicle sells every 2 minutes Totalling 4.4 million to date (3rd ¼ 2011) Motorcycle sold every 6 Minutes Highest Priced Item sold – Gulfstream Jet for $4.9 Million in 2001 Top Sales