eBay is the world's largest personal online trading community. eBay created a new market: efficient one-to-one trading in an auction format on the Web.
Individuals, not big businesses use eBay to buy and sell items across thousands of diverse categories, including collectables, antiques, sports memorabilia, computers, toys, beanie babies, dolls, figures, coins, stamps, books, magazines, music, pottery, glass, photography, electronics, jewellery, gemstones, and much more. Users can find the unique and the interesting on eBay, everything from chintz china to chairs, teddy bears to trains, and furniture to figurines.
As the nation's favourite online marketplace, buyers are compelled to trade on eBay due to the large number of items available. Similarly, sellers are attracted to the abundance of buyers. At any one time there are more than 10 million items for sale live on the site and more than 1 million new items every day from which users may choose. In the first three months of 2002, 5.6 million items were listed for sale on eBay UK alone.
