History of ebay

• History of ebay eBay was founded by Pierre

Omidyar in September 1995.
• In 1998, Pierre and his cofounder Jeff Skoll
brought in Meg Whitman.
• With an experienced management team they
built a strong vision for the company “ that
eBay is a company that's in the business of
connecting people, not selling them things
 The Business Model

• The Business Model eBay has built an online person-

to-person trading community on the Internet.
• Browsing and bidding on auctions is free of charge,
but sellers are charged two kinds of charges:
• When an item is listed on eBay a nonrefundable
Insertion Fee is charged, which ranges between 30
cents and $3.30, depending on the seller's opening
bid on the item.
 Business overview of ebay

• Business overview of ebay

• B2B->Business to Business
• B2C->Business to Consumer
• C2C->Consumer to consumer
 Revenue Model

• Revenue Model Ebay generates revenue from a

number of fees i.e insertion fees, final value fees
& several optional adornment fees.
• eBay sellers are permitted to offer a variety of
payment systems such as Paypal, Paymate,
Propay & Moneybookers.
• When a new Paypal registration via ebay is done,
it earns an offsite revenue even when the
account is used for non-ebay transactions.