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eBay - The World's Online Marketplace
eBay is The World's Online Marketplace® with a global customer base of 233 million. Founded by Pierre Omidyar 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 37 markets, including the United States.
As an early Internet enthusiast, Pierre knew that people needed a central location to buy and sell all kinds of items on a level playing field and to meet other users with similar interests. He started eBay to fulfil this need. At the time, Pierre's fiancée (now wife) was an avid Pez� (sweet dispenser) collector. She was having trouble finding people to trade with, and Pierre thought eBay might be the answer to her problems.
On any given day, there are millions of items listed on eBay across thousands of diverse categories, including antiques, toys, books, computers, sports, photography and electronics, amongst many others.
eBay UK facts and figures
Launched in October 1999, eBay.co.uk is the UK's largest online marketplace® and the UK’s number one e-commerce site (Nielsen / Netratings March 2007). 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 given time
- Launched in the UK in October 1999, eBay.co.uk is the UK's largest online marketplace
- eBay.co.uk hit the 15 million customers milestone in May 2006
- eBay.co.uk has achieved the ten million live listings landmark, meaning there are more than ten million items for sale on the site at any one time
- Every other (47%) internet user visits eBay.co.uk at least once a month (Nielsen / Netratings, March 2007)
- eBay.co.uk has over 13,000 categories
- eBay.co.uk's audience reached 14,743,000 in March 2007 (Nielsen / Netratings, March 2007)
- eBay visitors average two hours on the site and view 266 pages per month (Nielsen / Netratings, March 2007)
- 11% of all the time UK users spend on the internet (Nielsen / Netratings, March 2007)
- More than 68,000 people earn their primary or secondary income from trading on eBay.co.uk (ACNielsen International Research, February 2006)
- The UK continues to grow at very strong rates, and in the process reached an important milestone: the UK achieved its first ever $100M revenue quarter in Q2 2005
eBay Inc Facts and figures
- Founded in September 1995, eBay is a global online marketplace where practically anyone can trade practically anything
- eBay has a global presence in 37 markets, including the U.S.
- eBay has 233 million registered users worldwide.
- eBay Marketplaces net revenues for Q1 2007 totalled $1.25 billion with 49 percent from US operations and 51 percent from our International business
- In Q1-07, gross merchandise volume (GMV), the total value of all successfully closed items on eBay's trading platforms, was $14.3 billion. Total GMV for the full year 2006 was more than $52 billion
- eBay users worldwide trade more than $1,839 worth of goods on the site every second
- There were 588 million new listings added to eBay worldwide in Q1-07. At any given time, there are approximately 100 million listings worldwide, and approximately 6.4 million listings are added per day. eBay users trade in more than 50,000 categories
- ? Based on Q1-07 GMV, the following categories delivered $1 billion or more in worldwide annualized GMV: eBay Motors at $16.5 billion; Consumer Electronics at $4.9 billion; Clothing & Accessories at $4.5 billion; Computers at $4 billion; Books / Music / Movies at $3.1 billion; Home & Garden at $3.6 billion; Collectibles at $2.7 billion; Sports at $2.6 billion; Toys at $2.1 billion; Business & Industrial at $2.2 billion; Jewellery & Watches at $2 billion; Cameras & Photo at $1.5 billion; Antiques & Art at $1.4 billion and Coins & Stamps at $1.3 billion
- While eBay is well-known for its auction format, users can also buy and sell in fixed-price formats, which accounted for 39 per cent of total GMV during Q1-07
- At the end of Q1-07, eBay hosted approximately 632,000 stores worldwide, with approximately 57 percent of stores hosted on eBay's international sites
- Approximately 1.3 million sellers around the world use eBay as a primary or secondary source of income. (ACNielsen International Research, June 2006
- As of September 2006, eBay members worldwide have left more than five billion feedback comments for one another regarding their eBay transactions
- The most expensive item sold on eBay to date is a private business jet for $4.9 million.
Sources : Nielson/NetRatings and eBay Internal Data (March 2007)
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