By: Mark Manjardi

A Presentation of The First Online Auction Site

URL: http://www.ebay.com/ History Purpose Content Uses Web 2.0 Similar Sites Research Positives & Negatives Surprise

Overview of

Founder: Pierre Omidyar Date: September 3, 1995 Headquarters: San Jose, California First Known As: Auction Web Funny Historic Story: Pez Candy

Dispensers First Item Sold: Broken Laser Pointer

History And Creator

Serve as an online biding site where people can sell things they no longer want

Online thrift store Highest bidder gets item at end of deadline Never ending auction for the world

Purpose of

Any item or product up for sale

Day to day lists of for-sale items

People made pages displaying their item

Each item’s page made up of Image, Information, Biding Price, Contact Info

Content

School:◦ Educational – teaches students how to make a dollar out of

items they no longer need

Home◦ Forget a Garage Sale. Sell Items Online!

Business◦ Promote & Sell Items◦ Communicate with other business online

Uses (School, Home, Business)

Communication◦ Best way to communicate = buying & selling from each other on one

huge online market◦ Comments & contact information◦ Phone & email

Secure Information Sharing◦ Detailed information on each item necessary◦ Information on seller also◦ Information runs the site

Collaboration with World Wide Web◦ Sites for images and background information on items

How is this a Web 2.0 tool?

Amazon http://www.amazon.com

Craigslist www.craigslist.com

Yahoo auctions.yahoo.com

Why eBay is better…

Similar Sites

1999 — A year after going public, eBay has 10 million registered users and a gross merchandise volume of $2.8 billion annually.

2002 — 61.7 million registered users, gross merchandise volume of $14.9 billion annually.

2005 — 181 million registered users, gross merchandise volume of $44.3 billion annually.

2008 — 87.7 million active users worldwide, gross merchandise volume of $59.7 billion annually

Today – eBay keeps growing190 countries24 currencies

ResearcheBay remains the premier buying and selling marketplace in the online universe, with more active listings, users, and goods than shoppers are likely to find anywhere else

Positives◦ Items around the world all at one site◦ Anyone can buy or sell◦ Best auction site due to popularity

Negatives◦ 18 or older◦ Don’t know who you are buying from◦ Not physically buying it in store

Overall◦ The new era of shopping

Positives & Negatives

Questions..?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW9bHDy5khQ

eBay Song