Ebay Consignments

FACTS

• Founded in September 1995, eBay is a global online marketplace where practically anyone can trade practically anything
• eBay has a global presence in 37 markets, including the U.S.
• eBay has 233 million registered users worldwide.
• eBay Marketplaces net revenues for Q1 2007 totalled $1.25 billion with 49 percent from US operations and 51 percent from our International business
• In Q1-07, gross merchandise volume (GMV), the total value of all successfully closed items on eBay's trading platforms, was $14.3 billion. Total GMV for the full year 2006 was more than $52 billion
• eBay users worldwide trade more than $1,839 worth of goods on the site every second
• There were 588 million new listings added to eBay worldwide in Q1-07. At any given time, there are approximately 100 million listings worldwide, and approximately 6.4 million listings are added per day. eBay users trade in more than 50,000 categories
• Based on Q1-07 GMV, the following categories delivered $1 billion or more in worldwide annualized GMV: eBay Motors at $16.5 billion; Consumer Electronics at $4.9 billion; Clothing & Accessories at $4.5 billion; Computers at $4 billion; Books / Music / Movies at $3.1 billion; Home & Garden at $3.6 billion; Collectibles at $2.7 billion; Sports at $2.6 billion; Toys at $2.1 billion; Business & Industrial at $2.2 billion; Jewellery & Watches at $2 billion; Cameras & Photo at $1.5 billion; Antiques & Art at $1.4 billion and Coins & Stamps at $1.3 billion
• While eBay is well-known for its auction format, users can also buy and sell in fixed-price formats, which accounted for 39 per cent of total GMV during Q1-07
• At the end of Q1-07, eBay hosted approximately 632,000 stores worldwide, with approximately 57 percent of stores hosted on eBay's international sites
• Approximately 1.3 million sellers around the world use eBay as a primary or secondary source of income. (ACNielsen International Research, June 2006
• As of September 2006, eBay members worldwide have left more than five billion feedback comments for one another regarding their eBay transactions
• The most expensive item sold on eBay to date is a private business jet for $4.9 million.
Sources : Nielson/NetRatings and eBay Internal Data (March 2007)

How It Works

We will:
- Collect the item for auction
- Take 1 to 20 photographs of each item
- Research the item
- Post the item in a 7-day auction
- Answer all correspondence on item
- House item (when possible)
- Wrap, package, insure, and ship the item

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