3. Company Profile :
Name – eBay . Inc
Industries served – Online retailing, Internet
Geographic area served – Worldwide
Headquarters – U.S.
Revenue- $14.07 billion (2012)
Profit - $ 2.60 billion (2012)
4. Introduction :
The Goal of this book is to teach you how to build a
profitable business selling on ebay – and most
important words in this sentence is ‘ PROFITABLE’.
Making sales on ebay is simple and you can learn how
to do that by just browsing the site.
The first online auction venue hit the internet in 1994.
5. Cont’d…
The following year , Pierre Ombidyar introduced the
site that would eventually known as ‘ebay’. Originally
called Auction Web , it started out as a kind of Virtual
Garbage Sale , but with the added excitement of
auction pricing.
6. Beware :
eBay Transaction are between buyers and seller. As the
online auction site, eBay is merely the vehicle that
brings the buyer and seller together.
eBay will assist with dispute but is not ultimately
responsible for the transaction.
7.
8. Early History :
AuctionWeb was founded in California, on September
3,1995 , by French-born Iranian – American computer
programmer Pierre Obidyar as a part of larger site.
One of the first items sold on AuctionWeb was a
broken laser pointer of $14.83.
Jeffery Skoll was hired as a first president of the
company in 1996.
10. Board of Directors :
Fred D. Anderson
Edward W. Barnhalt
Scott Cook
David Dorman
David M. Moffet
11. Mission :
eBay Inc. enables commerce by delivering flexible and
scalable solution that foster merchant growth.
eBay delivers the world’s largest online marketplace to
customers via any connected device, connecting
people with the things they need and love.
19. Process of Selling :
Register a eBay
Create a Seller account
Providing your Debit / Credit Card Information
Declare your payment process of selling fees
Select payment methods to get money from buyers
20.
21. How to make money on
eBay.com : Register > Advertise > Getting Paid. eBay publishers
for quality clicks sent to eBay sites.
The amount paid per click(EPC) on a daily basis
depends on traffic quality. The quality of the traffic is
assessed using a number of different factors, including
revenue from sales and the long term value of users.
23. CONCLUSION:
eBay has changed the landscape of micro auction
from customers to customers.
Revenue model of eBay benificial for both seller and
user as the seller pay a minimal fee to list their product
and when they are sold a transaction fee is collected.
This satisfy sellers as they don’t mind to pay 5 to 10
percent of sales revenue to eBay.