EBay

eBay is a Web site of auctions created in 1995 by Pierre Omidyar, which became a world reference in its category and a social phenomenon. eBay account today more than 200 million registered members.

History

The company eBay () was created in 1995 by Pierre Omidyar, under the name of “AuctionWeb”, then took in 1996 the name of eBay. Its founder in the beginning created this site to allow his wife to exchange then to buy and sell candy distributers PEZ which it collected. Its head office is based with San Jose in the Silicon Valley in California. Meg Whitman is the director. This company employs: 9000 people for a turnover in 2004 of three billion dollars. Carried by the boom of Internet and the E-business, the site eBay is an enormous success since its beginnings. The Germany is the second most active market.

The company has a local site for the following countries: Argentinian Germany, , Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Korea, Spain, the United States, France, Hong-Kong, India, Ireland, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Netherlands, Filipino, Poland, the United Kingdom, Singapore, Sweden, Swiss, Taiwan.

The site eBay

Who can use the services offered by eBay?

Any person registered on the site eBay of her country can take part in the biddings of all the countries. It is necessary to be legally major to be registered. Once the inscription is validated, i.e.:

to be able to buy: after checking of the Email address indicated to the inscription;
to be able to sell: after identity check of the member by postal mail (justifying of residence) or banking identification (by the credit card);

each member can:

to sell a good:

nine: the marketing activities are subjected to the local legislation of the country,
of occasion: that represents the majority of the transactions,
the sale of services, ebooks and certain objects is strictly supervised, even prohibited according to the countries. It is essential of good lira the conditions of sale of the site;

to buy a good:

while raising,
by immediate purchase if the salesman proposes this option;

to contact the salesman to obtain more information.

Each member engages his own responsibility in the event of nonrespect for the legislation or the regulations for eBay. In all the cases, the encherissor who gains an object has obligation, according to the payment eBay, to conclude the transaction his. In the same way, the salesman must of course respect to him also his engagements.

The purchaser should not raise on a blow of head: it is appropriate of good lira the conditions of sale of salesman (state of the object, expenses of sending, possible return, etc).

How does it go?

The system of Enchère of eBay functions according to the principles of an alternative of the Enchère of Vickrey: the paid price by the end-buyer, highest offerer, is the bid price by the second offering one small sum more (for example, 50 centime S).

Means of payment

The means of payment are not really limited but remain given by the salesman. The most used are the following:

the Transfer;
against refunding;
the personal Check;
the money order;
PayPal , the electronic platform of payment whose eBay is owner since 2002;
the cash payment with handing-over of the object in clean hands.

The method of payment is generally specified in the advertisement. The salesman can also propose an insurance on the delivery of the product.

Deposit-sales

Certain shops, of the “deposits sale eBay” propose to deal with all the process of sale on eBay. These shops act as an intermediary between their customers and eBay, and are remunerated by taking a commission on the final selling price.

The company eBay

Its activity

To be financed, eBay takes a commission on each transaction carried out in exchange of the services offered. It is the salesman who pays this commission; the purchaser, does not have any expenses additional with the purchase to him to deal with. The company eBay emits an invoice once a month.

There exists, for the French site, four ways of paying the expenses:

by check;
by credit card with single payment;
by direct debit;
by PayPal.

The choice of the direct debit is hazardous and the experiment disadvises it. In the event of problem (sales planted in series for example), eBay is useful on your bank account and you Re does not credit (on the account eBay, in the form of having for the following transactions, never of refunding!) at least two months later.

Calculation of the expenses

This calculation depends on two factors.

On the one hand, expenses of insertion (according to the starting price) and of options (photographs, proposed, etc). The detail is explained on the site eBay.

In addition, commission on the final price of the sale.

Lastly, the expenses of eBay are particularly high, including compared to the expenses of eBay.com the American site. Moreover, these expenses are the subject of increases regular.

For example, if you sell an object 100 € on eBay in immediate purchase, it will cost some to you: (has to see according to the object)

2,85 € of expenses of insertion
6,13 € of expenses of final commission
0,05 € for the immediate option to buy.

Is a total of 9,03 €, therefore 9,03%

Acquisitions

Strange sales

In January 2007, Australian 24 years put its life at the biddings (its name, its phone number, its tangible properties, its friendly relations, its potential conquests). Started with five dollars, the biddings reached seven thousand five hundred Australian dollars (approximately 4480 euros) with the fence on January 22nd.

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