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eBay was started by a single man named ' Pierre...
I don't think it matters exactly where you are these days, if you mention the name ' eBay ', there is an individual there who has either purchased an item on it, or who has sold some thing on it, eBay has turn into a household name about the world. I began acquiring and selling on ebay about 7 years ago. There are thousands of men and women residing in the U.S. that make full time living's selling item's on eBay, and thousands a lot more that buy things on it daily.
eBay was began by one particular man named ' Pierre Omidyar '. When Pierre was 28 years old he started writing the programming code that was to turn into the world wide web internet site eBay. The website was launched on the internet on Sep four, 1995, ' Labor Day ' here in the U.S. At first it wasn't referred to as eBay, but was named ' Auction Internet '. Later it was modified to ' ebay ' , which was a brief version of a consulting firm Pierre owned named ' Echo Bay '. eBay was totally free at the start, then it started charging fees to support cover it really is web costs for hosting and other charges. At the time, Pierre was dating a lady that collected PEZ toys, she employed the new eBay site in its earliest incarnation to get and sell rare dispensers. In 1996 Jeffrey Skoll, a Stanford MBA, joined the business and by 1998 eBay had gone public in the stock marketplace, producing Omidyar a billionaire. In 2005, Omidyar's 214 million eBay shares were worth about $eight billion. In March 1998, Meg Whitman was brought in as President and CEO of eBay exactly where she serves nonetheless today
Let's start by going to the eBay site and joining. Just check out: www.ebay.com and you will be taken to the primary web page of the website. As soon as there appear towards the top area of the screen and you will see text that says: ' Hello! Sign in or register. ', using the mouse button, click on ' register '. Immediately after clicking on ' register ' you will be taken to a screen with a form on it, enter the data about your self, such as your name, address, telephone number and email address. Next you will be taken to an additional screen exactly where you must choose a password and ebay user name, the eBay user-name is the ID or Name you will be recognized by to other ebay bidders and shoppers.
The password should be something that is not typical, for instance do not use your initial or final name, or some frequent word such as ' pencil ', or ' computer ', take your time and decide on some thing challenging and a little extended, make certain you write this password down and maintain it near your computer in case you forget it. I advise writing your ebay password on a yellow post-it note and hanging it someplace near your personal computer.
When your accomplished with the username and password screen, you just have to check your e mail for the confirmation link that eBay sends you, just click on the link as shown in the e-mail to activate your eBay account, now you have joined eBay, and you can start bidding and getting right away, but before you do let me inform you about the various features of eBay and how some factors operate.
eBay is not just an auction site, I mean you do not have to bid and wait for an auction to end, in order to acquire each and every item on eBay. In fact a lot of things can be bought for a set fee, and bought instantly, these are named ' Acquire Now ' listings. For an example of how listings differ from every single other, let's look at some ebay things. Let's say you and I are searching for a ' singing fish ', the fish that look like their mounted and displayed on a piece of wood, when someone gets close to it, it will start singing and move it is mouth and tail, they are typically known as ' huge mouth billy bass '.
To see if eBay has any of the ' singing fish ', we just go to the primary ebay web page (www.ebay.com) and in the 'SEARCH' area, variety in: singing fish, and the screen shows there are at present 60 various items or listings discovered. I scroll down and select one particular of the listings, it at the moment shows the current bid price is $7.00 and it has had four bids, with 1 day and 13 hours remaining prior to the listing or auction ends. If I genuinely wanted this item, and was willing to spend up to $15.00 for it, I would just click on ' Spot Bid ', and enter my ebay username and password, if requested to www electronic data interchange webaddress
