eBay

eBay Inc.

Logo since 2012
Headquarters in the Willow Glen district of San Jose, California, in 2021.
Formerly	AuctionWeb (1995–1997)
Company type	Public
Traded as	NASDAQ: EBAY Nasdaq-100 component S&P 500 component
Industry	E-commerce
Founded	September 3, 1995 (1995-09-03)
Founder	Pierre Omidyar
Headquarters	San Jose, California, U.S.
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Thomas J. Tierney (chairman) Jamie Iannone (president​ & CEO)
Services	Online shopping
Revenue	US$9.79 billion (2022)
Operating income	US$2.35 billion (2022)
Net income	US$−1.27 billion (2022)
Total assets	US$20.85 billion (2022)
Total equity	US$5.15 billion (2022)
Number of employees	c. 11,600 (December 2022)
Subsidiaries	Auction Co., iBazar, GittiGidiyor, G-Market, Half.com, Qoo10.jp
Website	www.ebay.com
Footnotes / references

eBay is a website. It is a place for online auctions. Anybody can sell almost anything they want there. People can buy many things there as well.

People have to send what they sell themselves, usually using mail. Some items may be collected by the buyer such as items to large or heavy to post. Buyers can transfer the money in any way they want as long as the sellers accept payments made that way. A lot of people use PayPal to transfer the money. PayPal was owned by the same people as eBay until 2015. Margaret Whitman was the CEO of eBay from 1995 to 2008.

History

eBay was started in 1995 by Pierre Omidyar. It was first called Auctionweb. The name 'eBay' came later when he tried to register a domain name for his planned name EchoBay. It was already taken so he shortened the name to 'eBay'.

Statistics

Millions of items are bought on eBay every day. It is often very cheap to list an item on eBay. Total costs are usually below ordinary auction house costs. Many people look at others' items because they are interested in them.

Other websites

• eBay site