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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Different aspects of online auctions‚ eBay. For assessor only | | 1. Content | | 2. Language structure | | 3. Language accuracy | | 4. Language: format & citing/referencing | | Overall: | | Advisory grade | | Assessor’s initials | | Maastricht UniversitySchool of Business & Economics | Place & Date: | Maastricht‚ 10-12-2012. | Name‚ initials: | Elemans‚ DP | ID number: | I6049135 | Study | International Business | Course Code: | EBC1009
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How did eBay pursue international growth? With exceeding 3.7 billion‚ more than a half of the world’s population‚ and Internet usage in the region rapidly growth at 406 percent‚ Asia became an attractive and lucrative marketplace for eBay to expand their business. Since 1995‚ eBay enjoyed strong revenue growth and was a dominant player in online auction industry. With previous experience of extending their business in Europe‚ North America‚ Latin America and failure in China and Japan‚ eBay was once
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eBay Introduction In this paper‚ eBay’s strategy for its growth through the years 2001-2010 is analyzed. eBay has tried itself to expand and diversify through its various business strategies. This paper would analyze the major strategies that affected the eBay’s growth positively and negatively. Mergers and Acquisitions One of the widely used strategies for diversification is Mergers and acquisition. Companies acquire stakes in other companies and control them. Some companies follow the strategy
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An Analysis on ebay’s Operations OPIM 201 Arielle Elise CHUA Stefanie Kaye SU WANG Run Yu Kimberly Klaire WONG EBAY’S 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
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unveiled a three-year revival plan. eBay has begun to move away from its origins as an online flea market‚ and instead is starting to look more like an outlet mall where retailers sell out-of-season‚ overstocked‚ refurbished‚ or discontinued merchandise‚ and like low price bulk retailer Costco‚ where the inventory is somewhat fluid but everything is a good deal. 2- What are the problems that eBay is currently facing? How is eBay trying to solve these problems? eBay is not facing any current problems
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Prof. (Dr.) T. Muthukumar PTM1001014 Module Lecturer Business Activity:- The Functions and Purpose of Businesses - A Business Success? eBay was founded in 1995 by Pierre Omidyar. In just ten years eBay has grown into one of the world’s most recognised companies. eBay is an on-line auction house and market place‚ putting millions of buyers in touch with millions of sellers. These buyers and sellers traded goods worth nearly $20 billion in the first
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY eBay‚ Inc. is the largest and most popular marketplace on the Internet‚ allowing members to buy and sell almost anything. Launched in 1995‚ about 147 million people now use eBay. An estimated 430‚000 people in the United States make all or most of their living by selling on eBay. eBay’s online payment service‚ called PayPal‚ enables transactions nearly anywhere in the world. eBay proclaims “trust” between buyers and sellers as the key to the success of the marketplace. eBay is the “The
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EBay vs. Amazon Introduction: In a world where trade is increasingly becoming digitalized online‚ there are new and challenging strategies emerging. This essay aims to analyze and determine these strategies. Considering the example of eBay and Amazon‚ their business models and their multi-sided platforms‚ we can compare them to decide which strategies work in this market and how‚ in the future‚ they can keep a competitive edge as the market continuously changes. However‚ as Amazon and eBay
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and trade through an online platform. eBay tried to fulfill this necessity by opening an online trading “auction house” for Chinese customers. The company provided a service where an item would be listed in their webpage with the ability to bid on it. The owner would place the item or service online while buyers who were interested on acquiring the product would bid on it till the highest bidder got the product. Then‚ the owner would be informed through eBay and the trade would take place online
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