eBay is an American multinational e-commerce corporation founded in 1995 that operates online marketplaces where individuals and businesses buy and sell a wide variety of goods and services worldwide. It is headquartered in San Jose, California and has over 204 million registered users. eBay started as an online marketplace for the sale of goods between individuals and has grown to facilitate sales of a wide range of items, with over 600 million listings and $1,700 in transactions occurring every second on average.

1. “World's Online Marketplace."

2. What is ebay?
eBay Inc. is an American multinational internet consumer
to-consumer corporation.
Founded on : 3rd September 1995
Features : Online auction and
shopping
Website : www.ebay.com
Founder : Pierre Omidyar
"Whatever it is, you can get it on eBay."

3. san jose,california
Headquarters: : :
CEO : :
John Donahoe
"Buy it New, Buy it Now"

4. History...
> ebay started as a marketplace for the sale
of goods and other individuals in the living room
of Pierre Omidyar.
> Originally it was called “Auctionweb”.
> The site began with the listing of a
single broken laser pointer that was
sold through auction for $ 14.83 .
> ebay is the short form of echo bay.(It was
the name of pierre’s consulting firm at that
time)

5. LOGO
1995-2012
Present
"Buy it, sell it, love it"

6. Items
in this case we need to ask
“What is not sold or auctioned or
bought over here???”
Let’s have a look here,

7. "When it's on your mind, it's on eBay"

8. Back end(server side): JAVA
WEBSPHERE
SERVLETS
HTML
Database : ORACLE
DATABASE
Programming languages

9. Philanthropist Ebay
Charity auctions
> “Power lunch” with Warren Buffett raised
$2.63 million.
> Celebrity signed beds raised $35,000.
> Auctions for the welfare of children and
healthcare.

10. > The building on the company's North Campus
in San Jose uses an array of 3,248 solar
panels, spanning 60,000 square feet (5,600
m2), and providing 650 kilowatts of power to
eBay's campus.
Environmental record

11. INTERESTING FACTS
Page viewers per day : 1 billion
Trading on the site every second: $1,700
Registered users : 204 million
Current listings : 600 million
> eBay engineers have to add about 10 terabytes
of new storage every week to cover new
transactions...!

12. WEIRDEST ITEMS SOLD ON EBAY
A Man’s Whole Life
£192,000
Captain Kirk’s Charitable Kidney
Stone.(William shatner)$75,000

13. A Large (And Genuine) Piece Of The Planet
Mars $450,000
Britney Spears’ Chewed Gum $263

14. Companies owned by eBay

15. "Connecting buyers and sellers
globally.”

16. References
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebay (history, environmental
record, philanthropist ebay)
http://www.theunusualfacts.com/2012/11/10-weirdest-ebay-
items-ever-sold-or-on.html (weirdest items on ebay)

17. Thank you…