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eBay is The World's Online MarketplaceT with a global customer base of 135 million. Founded in 1995, eBay has created a powerful marketplace for the sale of goods and services by a passionate community of individuals and small businesses. eBay now has a global presence in 32 international markets, including the United States.
On any given day, there are millions of items for sale on the site across thousands of diverse categories, including antiques, toys, books, computers, sports, photography and electronics, amongst many others.
eBay was conceived initially as a result of a conversation between Pierre Omidyar and his wife, an avid PezT (sweet dispenser) collector. She commented to Pierre how great it would be if she were able to collect Pez dispensers and interact with other collectors over the Internet.
As an early Internet enthusiast, Pierre knew that people needed a central location to buy and sell unique items and to meet other users with similar interests. He started eBay to fulfil this need.
eBay.co.uk
Founded in the UK in October 1999, eBay.co.uk is the UK's largest online market place and is now the UK's number one e-commerce site (Nielsen Net Ratings, May 2003). eBay.co.uk has also achieved the three million live listings landmark, meaning there are three million items for sale on the site at any one time
- eBay.co.uk's audience reached 8.6m in December 2004 (Nielsen Netratings, Dec 2004)
- eBay.co.uk's reach was 33.8% in December 2004 (Nielsen Netratings, December 04, where reach is the % of all active internet users within that month visiting eBay.co.uk)
- eBay.co.uk hit the 10 million users milestone in February 2005
- In Q2 04, eBay Motors in the UK reached a $1B GMV run rate for the first time
- In Q4 04, eBay GMV (in US dollars) from UK users grew by more than 150% from Q4 03, the 17th consecutive quarter of triple-digit growth
- 85% of addressable listings* on eBay.co.uk accept PayPal (as at Q2 04) as a payment method. 58% of addressable* GMV was paid for with PayPal payments (as at Q4 04) (*addressable listings and GMV exclude vehicles and real estate)
- The UK delivered GMV of more than $1 billion in 2004
Facts and figures
- Founded in September of 1995, eBay is The World's Online MarketplaceR.
- eBay has 135 million registered users worldwide. In 2004, more than 60% of eBay's new registered users came from territories outside the US
- At any given time, there are approximately 44 million items available on eBay worldwide, and approximately 4 million new items are added each day. eBay users trade in more than 50,000 categories.
- In Q4-04, eBay hit a record of 889 million page views, 270 million searches, 15 million bids and 11.7 gigabits of data per second in a single day.
- Profitable since its launch, eBay net revenues totalled $935.8 million in Q4-04 and $3.3 billion for the full year 2004.
- eBay has a global presence in 32 international markets, including the USA.
- Based on Q4-04 data, eBay users worldwide now trade more than $ 1,168 worth of goods on the site every second.
- In Q4-04, gross merchandise volume (GMV), the value of all successfully closed listings on eBay worldwide, was $9.8 billion. eBay's international GMV accounted for 48% of the company's total GMV during Q4-04. eBay's global GMV for the full year 2004 was $34.2 billion.
- Based on Q4-04 GMV, eBay has twelve categories that delivered $1 billion or more in worldwide annualized GMV: eBay Motors at $11.1 billion; Consumer Electronics at $3.5 billion; Computers at $3.0 billion; Clothing & Accessories at $2.9 billion; Books/Movies/Music at $2.4 billion; Collectibles at $2.2 billion; Home & Garden at $2.0 billion; Toys at $1.8 billion; Sports at $1.8 billion; Jewellery & Watches at $1.7 billion; Cameras & Photo at $1.3 billion; and Business & Industrial at $1.2 billion.
- While eBay is well-known for its auction format, users can also buy and sell in fixed-price formats, which accounted for 30.7% of total GMV in Q4-04.
- PayPal's total payment volume (TPV), the total dollar volume of payments initiated through the PayPal system, was $5.6 billion in Q4-04 and $18.9 billion in 2004. PayPal has 63.8 million registered accounts and is available in 45 countries.
- More than 430,000 people in the USA, and thousands more around the world, are making all or most of their living by selling on eBay.
- The first item sold on eBay was Pierre Omidyar's broken laser pointer. It was sold for $14
- The most expensive item sold on eBay to date is a private business jet for $4.9 million.
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