Ebay Inc.
...around the world every day, empowering them to explore new opportunities and innovate together. eBay Inc. does this by providing the Internet platforms of choice for global commerce, payments and communications. Since its inception, eBay Inc. has expanded to include some of the strongest brands in the world, including eBay, PayPal, Skype, Shopping.com, and others. eBay Inc. is headquartered in San Jose, California. (ebay.com, 2007)
Introduction:
Since eBay's founding in 1995 it has become the world's largest place to buy and sell, a community of hundreds of millions of regular people, small businesses, and even big businesses from all of the seven continents. Millions of items of every kind imaginable, in every condition imaginable, change hands every day on eBay for prices ranging from one cent to hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars. (ebay.com, 2007)
Main Body:
MISSION AND VISION
According to ebay.com, eBay's mission statement is, "eBay's mission is to provide a global trading platform where practically anyone can trade practically anything." They have definitely reached their goal. They have made shopping and selling on the internet enjoyable. You can literally find anything that you want on their website without leaving your house.
PRODUCTS AND SERVICES
eBay is the world's largest marketplace for rare, discontinued, collectible, or hard-to-find items, no matter what the type or price. Whether you're looking for turn-of-the-century box cameras, hand-made Victorian doilies, Soviet army service medals, or 1980s vintage arcade games, eBay will give you a better selection than just about anyone else anywhere.
Because of the immense variety of things that can be found for sale on eBay, many membe ...