Founded in September of 1995, eBay is a global online marketplace where practically anyone can trade practically anything.

eBay has a global presence in 38 markets, including the U.S.

eBay has approximately 248 million registered users worldwide.

eBay users worldwide trade more than $1,812 worth of goods on the site every second.

There were 556 million new listings added to eBay worldwide in Q3-07. At any given time, there are approximately 102 million listings worldwide, and approximately 6 million listings are added per day. eBay users trade in more than 50,000 categories.

According to a June 2006 survey conducted by ACNielsen International Research, there are approximately 1.3 million sellers around the world who use eBay as their primary or secondary source of income.

eBay.co.uk is the UK’s number one e-commerce site with over 8 million unique visitors every month

eBay.co.uk is a huge market, yet less than half the UK online shoppers are members.

I am sure you’ll agree that the above statistics are very impressive but what do they actually mean to you and me?

Put simply: eBay is the largest gathering of shoppers on the planet and it gives us the opportunity to reach a worldwide marketplace of many thousands of people who are ready to buy OUR products, all we have to do is list them in the correct way and wait for the money to roll in!

 

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