eBay: How can eBay build its culture in China I. Overview eBay is an online provider of marketplaces for the sale of goods and services. It also provides commerce‚ platforms‚ online payments services and online communications. It offers products and service to individuals and businesses. Established in 1995‚ the company operates in the US and other international markets with employs 16‚400 people. eBay keeps its leadership position in the new industry – C2C (consumer to consumer) (Ou and Banerjee
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Case Analysis: Auction Wagon State the problem Through the case I found that the main problem of AW is finance. The undercapitalization put the company at a great disadvantage. They don’t have enough money on advertising to attract consumers and business‚ also delay to improve the inappropriateness of software. As it mentioned in case‚ AW is the first Bay drop-off store in America’s second largest metropolis‚ Los Angeles. They did not take advantage well of it because the finance problem. Missing
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IBMS216FM Case name : eBay Group members : Jeroen Dorst (0849963) Chun-Hou Ip (0850229) Fritzgerald Koeiman (0837237) Martijn Roos (0812417) Discussion questions 1. What are the ethical responsibilities of an organisation such as eBay? The ethical responsibilities of an organisation such as eBay are different from those of an organisation that directly sells their services or products to another organisation or individual. Organisations like eBay are merely
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sellers have made eBay Inc. the world’s largest and most popular Internet site for individuals and businesses to exchange goods. By 1999 eBay had 5.6 million registered users and listed over 3.1 million items for sale; by 2004 there were an estimated 65 million registered users from 150 countries‚ 971 million items for sale‚ and gross merchandise sales hit $15billion. eBay owns local sites in 19 countries‚ has stakes in another eight foreign nations‚ and provides users with its own online pay service‚
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Q1: The major explanations to the reason why AOL was so successful in the commercial online industry comparing to its competitors CompuServe and Prodigy are as follows: · AOL offered the unique and board range of features such as Online Community‚ Computing and the like‚ so their services are relatively differentiated · AOL kept good relation with its customer because of the easy access to AOL’s online service which only required to have a personal computer‚ a telephone line‚ and a computer‚ and
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prepared marketing plan of one online store that I choose to show how they improve competitiveness of their marketing or sale strategy that they take. I have chosen company eBay – the world’s online marketplace. Below is some information about this company that I have search through most of the reference unit. This introduction is about‚ what is eBay‚ what the product is‚ how they market their products and what is their marketing strategy. What is eBay Inc? eBay Inc. was formed as a sole proprietorship
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Online Travel Industry Internet travel bookings have been very prosperous these past couple of years. During the first three months of 2005‚ Internet travel bookings grew about 20 percent in the United States from the year earlier. Companies like Expedia‚ Travelocity‚ and Orbitz are putting more emphasis on selling to corporations and expanding in foreign markets. Travel has become one of the Web’s most developed categories. According to comScore‚ "online leisure travel bookings reached about
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Case 2- Emerging industries Online music industry – iTunes and Spotify Table of Contents Introduction 1 iTunes 2 Spotify 2 Why are iTunes and Spotify so popular? 4 Critique 4 Sources 5 Introduction In this casework‚ we want to focus on the changing environment of music industry. It started with radio‚ later on gramophone‚ vinyl and records‚ CD’s and now online music. We want to research why this new type of listening and sharing music is so popular and finally‚ will
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consumer online auction market against eBay in China. After four years of an intensive and expensive battle‚ eBay withdrew from China completely. In about 200 words‚ describe the advantages Alibaba.com might have had over eBay in this new market‚ and then describe the advantages eBay might have had over Alibaba.com. Be sure to discuss lock-in effects where appropriate. Alibaba has advantages over eBay. Alibaba is already well known in their country. Alibaba’s Fees were not charged for online auctions
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The Slave Auction Analysis Imagine being ripped from your mother’s chest at a young age knowing you’ll never see her again. Listen to the screams of the little children around you as you hold on to your lover’s hand for dear life praying to every god imaginable that you two won’t be ripped apart.-- “I got a nice wench starting at 800”.-- Your grasp gets tighter as they examine you from head to toe. The bids are getting higher and higher‚ tears stroll down your face. You look at the stone cold
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