SERVICES What services does eBay provide? 1.1- THE ONLINE AUCTION MARKETPLACE Hailed as “The Customer Marketplace” by the Harvard Business Review authors‚ eBay provides an online auction platform for individual buyers and sellers‚ small businesses and larger corporations to get connected‚ trade and interact with each other. When Pierre Omidyar originally founded eBay in 1995‚ he was merely helping his wife sell her old Pez dispensers by connecting her to potential buyers. eBay remains true to providing
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EBay: In a League by Itself This case tells the long story about how eBay developed and grew obtaining market leader status through the whole process. When thinking back to this case the issue that I think is most important to eBay’s process is their willingness to talk with their customers about improving the service and the website. One example of improving the service showed up on C-306 of the case. It took place "when eBay introduced a feature that referred losing bidders to similar
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Yes‚ there is an auction website that is combatant to eBay. The web site uBid.com is just that‚ a formidable contender. These two auction based websites are leaders in the world in the effect of bid vending. The function of the websites are comparable‚ yet distinguish themselves accordingly to give themselves a branded feeling. The feel of the site is crucial to its success overall. So much can be said regarding comfortable site navigation and user friendliness. And because of the convenience
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order to understand why and how eBay has been successful‚ it is important to understand Porter’s five forces model. The model includes threat of potential new entrants‚ threat of rivalry in the industry‚ threat of suppliers‚ threat of suppliers‚ threat of buyers and threat of product substitution. [pic] Rivalry in the industry Because of low entry barriers‚ the market is full of competitors. Yahoo! Auctions is one of the example competitors for eBay eBay continues to appeal to their customers
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BUCP-797-Golbal Business Policy Summary: ebay’s logistics system has problems Ebay’s delivery really has problems‚ and some time the products are delivered slowly‚ because ebay does not have their own logistics system as Wal-mart. They must rely on ups or some other delivery company to send the products. Questions: 1 Dose ebay’s current logistics system has effect on the daily business? 2 what is the difference between ebay’s logistics and wal-mart’s logistics? 3 How to improve the whole logistics
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Zheng Executive Summary Background eBay Inc history: September 1995: funded as a sole proprietorship. May 1996: incorporated in California. April 1998: reincorporated in Delaware. September 1998: completion of initial public offering October 2002: acquired PayPal Product Online Auction: Every day‚ 24 hours a day‚ 7 days a week‚ 365 days a year‚ millions of people from all over the world go shopping at online auctions. This is not an exaggeration - eBay‚ with a 76% share of the auction site
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25-34 years old. Over half of the users don’t have kids and also lack college experience. The majority of the people are Caucasian and have a household income of $100‚000. After looking at this information there are some good opportunities that eBay could capitalize on. First‚ a good target market would be the “Baby Boomer” generation. This generation’s age demographic falls into the 45-64 year range which makes up about 30% of internet usage in the United States. With the rise of smart phone
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1‚083 Rebecca Payne ECO2023 Pray 11-19-2012 eBay & Weird Al Business Structures There are a variety of different business structures that comprise the market in the world today. The most common ones found in the business world today are sole proprietorships‚ partnerships‚ and corporations. From these you will also find monopolies and oligopolies. Economists assume there are a number of different buyers and sellers in the market which leads to competition which allows prices to change
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Case Study: eBay Goes on a Shopping Spree Ashley Dames MMOL 5-6 Dr.Toni Pauls October 21‚ 2012 eBay was founded in 1995 by Pierre Omidyar‚ was actually known as AuctionWeb‚ and primarily was composed of random items that were auctioned off. Currently‚ eBay has over 30 million sellers and has an amazing array of goods for sale. Originally‚ eBay’s customers would bid on auction items that they were interested in purchasing. Now‚ over 60% of purchasers use the “buy it now” function rather
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of the low entry barriers and the market is full of competitors)‚ substitute products or services (many of the items on eBay are not purely exclusive to the site and other sites use similar ways to do their business)‚ supplier power (there is a limitless number of suppliers for eBay‚ and much revenue comes from suppliers’ own revenue)‚ buyer power (each item can be listed on eBay where a limitless number of buyers use the site‚ and choose whether to use the site or not). EBay’s business model is
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