Sunday, June 14, 2009

Ebay success and its causes



On the Sept 5 1995, E-bay was founded by Pierre Omidyar. He is French –born Iranian computer programmer. E-bay as the world’s largest online trading offers a wide range of opportunity that user can come together in one internet site to trade and buy. The item such as collectibles décor, appliances computers furnishings equipment vehicles and even the service can be sold too. As long as the item is not illegal and does not breach the e-bay policy, sellers are permitted to list items for sale. For the buyers are allowed to bid which things they are interested.

In order to become e-Bay users,, they need to register first by filling their information, E-bay web site enables users browse through listed items in a fully convenient and automated way.

According to Kevin Pursglove who is spokesperson of e-Bay, the success of e-Bay is allowing people to often times connect with some very fond and special early childhood memories. Example such as collecting baseball cards to toy soldiers to Barbie dolls to doll houses and so forth.

Next, he thinks that people really enjoy the experience of the shopping bazaar by going through the process of looking around the merchandise. Besides that, he believes that people really enjoy the competition of the bidding process. With the auction format of e-Bay, user can get a bargain price and negotiate a little bit over the price. Another reason of e-Bay success is e-Bay have cooperate with America online that the company have a number of arrangements with smaller sites that go back several years as an exchange to persuade people surf e-Bay website.
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