Thursday, January 22, 2009

E-commerce success and its causes


Ebay is an online phenomenon. We can buy or sell anything imaginable, from designer handbags to cars to some wacky knick knack we found at a garage sale. And ebay is also the one of the success e-commerce that we can seem nowadays. In 1995, that was a man name Pierre Omidyar who starts engage online garage sale at home. The first name eBay used was Echo Bay Technology. But, unfortunately, when the company tried to register the domain name echobay.com, they found that it was already in use. So, they shortened the name to eBay.com and then it becomes the name of the website that you have seen today.


EBay allow people to bargain and bid for the item they want and make them really enjoy the competition of the bidding process. Ebay has provided many things for user to buy such as clothing, accessories, electronics, household goods, toys and sporting goods. It can attrack different kind of people to use ebay. It is very convenient and save our time because even we do not go out for shopping , we also can buy our favorites things through ebay. It is a security online transaction because ebay is using credit card payment, so that it would not lost money .Besides that, having an eBay store can help us generate more income than just running auctions.It is also a benefit for the user who want earn money through the ebay.

related link:

http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~magnus/ief248a/eBay/history.html

http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/2127.html?welcome=1213184390

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