Founded | Pierre Omidyar, 1995 |
Headquarters | San Jose, California |
Products | online shopping |
Services | ecommerce |
People | Devin Wenig (CEO) |
Competitors | Amazon, Flipkart, Myntra, Jabong, Shopclues |
Employees | 34,600 (2015) |
Website | ebay.com |
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ebay is an multinational e-commerce company, providing online shopping and online auction opertions headquartered in San Jose, California.
Ebay was founded by Pierre Omidyar in the year of 1995. ebay was formed with the basic idea of bringing sellers and buyers together in one platform for the broad variety of goods and services
Buyers are free to register to select products and get shipped to door delivery, whereas sellers or suppliers are charged for products listing, extra charges for maintaining store for the specific period from month to year and also extra transaction charges if the products got sold.
eBay auction type listings are sealed bid, Bidding on eBay auction style listing, The winning bidder pays the second highest bid plus one bid increment amount, eBay also allows sellers to offer a Buy it Now price that will end the auction immediately.
In 2008, eBay implemented a system of seller ratings with four categories. Buyers are asked to rate the seller in each of these categories with a score of one to five, with five being the highest rating.
ebay is an multinational e-commerce company, providing online shopping at the customers ease