eBay offers a wide variety of
features and services that enable members to buy and sell on the site quickly and
conveniently. Buyers have the option to purchase items in auction-style format or items
can be purchased at fixed price through a feature called Buy-It-Now. In addition, items at
fixed price are also available Half.com, an eBay company.
On any given day, there are more
than 12 million items listed on eBay across 18,000 categories. In 2002, eBay members
transacted $14.87 billion in annualized gross merchandise sales (GMS, the value of goods
sold on eBay).
People come to the eBay
marketplace to buy and sell items across multiple categories, including antiques and art,
books, business & industrial, cars & other vehicles, clothing & accessories,
coins, collectibles, crafts, dolls & bears, electronics & computers, home
furnishings, jewelry & watches, movies & DVDs, music, musical instruments, pottery
& glass, real estate, sporting goods & memorabilia, stamps, tickets, toys &
hobbies and travel.
Members from all over the world
buy and sell on eBay. Currently, eBay has local sites that serve Australia, Austria,
Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Korea, the Netherlands, New Zealand,
Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan and the United Kingdom. In addition, eBay
has a presence in Latin America and China through its investments in MercadoLibre.com and
EachNet, respectively.
