season or overstocked products at a fixed price. Also‚ they rely heavily on paypal for revenue since you absolutely must have a paypal to purchase from eBay as all transactions go through them. A portion of the fees goes to eBay. 2. What are the problems that eBay is currently facing? How is eBay trying to solve these problems? A problem that eBay is currently facing is the continued growth of Bill Me Later (BML). It increases overall risk for the company putting downward pressure on stock price
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| Case Analysis: eBay Customer Support Outsourcing | | Name: Qiong HuangStudent #: 500423506Course #: MT 8216For: Professor BabinDate: December‚ 10‚ 2010 | Situation eBay.com‚ “the world’s online marketplace”‚ is an online auction and shopping website in which people and business buy and sell a wide variety of goods and services worldwide. It is managed by eBay Inc‚ which is founded in 1995 by Pierre Omidyar. eBay’ mission was to provide a robust trading platform where practically
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4. eBay is positioned well to successfully compete with its top three competitors‚ Amazon‚ Google and Overstock. Table 1 provides a financial comparison of eBay with its top three competitors. eBay is a distant third from Google with a market capitalization of $64 billion but is first or second in key ratio comparisons (eBay Direct Competitor‚ 2012). Specifically‚ eBay is first or second in several key ratios such as Gross Margin‚ Operating Margin‚ Earnings Per Share and Price/Earnings. The Operating
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Company name: eBay Inc. Company stock symbol: EBAY Company Information What started as a side hobby for the founder of eBay Pierre Omidyar in 1995 has become a huge success. I have chosen eBay as my research paper because I am an active seller and buyer of eBay and I think that it is a great platform for individual who wants to start somewhere but doesn’t have much experience and financial support. History of the company‚ HQ location Founded by Pierre Omidyar‚ a computer programmer on September
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successful internetbased company‚ eBay History of eBay eBay started life out as Auctionweb‚ founded by Pierre Omidyar Brainstorming amongst friends resulted in the overall idea By 1997 maintained its impressive growth but it needed additional funding Benchmark provided said funding‚ and more importantly‚ leadership Ms. Whitman was installed as CEO and Mr. Swette as COO First move was to issue an IPO How does it work? eBay provides listings and listings support
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environment? One of the great opportunity that eBay experienced is that when Pierre Omidyar realized that the Internet enabled market efficiency by allowing millions of buyers and sellers to view products and conduct transactions. With the help of Withman‚ eBay grew from a programmer’s experiment into a major publicly traded company‚ trading on NASDAQ with the symbol EBAY. Competitors are one of the threats of the company because they are competing with eBay which makes them compete and strive to be
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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 a platform
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Question 1 What are the competitive advantages that contributed to the success of eBay using the value-chain analysis or RBV concept? In 21st century the internet population started rising across various countries of Asia and eBay is the largest and leading provider of online auction for consumer-to-consumer in the world. Using the Resource-Based View concept‚ we will first identify the three key types of resources that eBay possess‚ and these are the competitive advantages that contributed to
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Vision As there is no vision stated in the case‚ hence we come out with a new vision for ebay as follows. EbayVision statement : “ To become the world’s leading e-commerce franchise in the world” In our opinion‚ the vision statement above is very clear that Ebay wants to be a leader in e-commerce world. Mission The Original Mission Statement: “We intend to continue to work toward our mission of creating the world’s leading ecommerce franchise by investing in our core Marketplaces
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1. Company Description 2. Question 2.1 What is competition like in the online auction industry? How strong are the competitive pressures confronting eBay and other online auction firms? 2.2 What forces are operating in the online auction macro-environment that has the power to alter the nature and structure in the online auction industry? 2.3 What does a strategic group map reveal about the positions of the major players in the online auction industry? Is eBay in a good position on the map
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