EBay
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eBay Inc. (/ˈiːbeɪ/ EE-bay, often stylized as ebay) is an American multinational e-commerce company based in San Jose, California, that facilitates consumer-to-consumer and business-to-consumer sales through its website. eBay was founded by Pierre Omidyar in 1995 and became a notable success story of the dot-com bubble. eBay is a multibillion-dollar business with operations in about 32 countries, as of 2019.[update][1][2] The company manages the eBay website, an online auction and shopping website in which people and businesses buy and sell a wide variety of goods and services worldwide. The website is free to use for buyers, but sellers are charged fees for listing items after a limited number of free listings, and an additional or separate fee when those items are sold.[3]
Logo since 2012 | |
 Headquarters in the Willow Glen district of San Jose, California, in 2021. | |
| Formerly | AuctionWeb (1995–1997) |
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| Type | Public |
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| Industry | E-commerce |
| Founded | September 3, 1995; 28 years ago (1995-09-03) |
| Founder | Pierre Omidyar |
| Headquarters | San Jose, California, U.S. |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | |
| Services | Online shopping |
| Revenue |  US$9.79 billion (2022) |
| US$2.35 billion (2022) | |
| US$−1.27 billion (2022) | |
| Total assets | US$20.85 billion (2022) |
| Total equity | US$5.15 billion (2022) |
Number of employees | c. 11,600 (December 2022) |
| Subsidiaries | Auction Co., iBazar, GittiGidiyor, G-Market, Half.com, Qoo10.jp |
| Website | www |
| Footnotes / references [1] | |
In addition to eBay's original auction-style sales, the website has evolved and expanded to include: instant "Buy It Now" shopping; shopping by Universal Product Code, ISBN, or other kind of SKU number (via Half.com, which was shut down in 2017); and other services. eBay previously offered online money transfers as part of its services (via PayPal,[4] which was a wholly owned subsidiary of eBay from 2002 to 2015);[5] online classified advertisements (via Kijiji, or eBay Classifieds Group); and online event ticket trading (via StubHub). On July 25, 2018, eBay announced a new partnership with PayPal's rivals Apple and Square in place of its longtime payment partner PayPal.[6]