This represents 19% of global e-Commerce and just 2% of global commerce, leaving generous room for upside. eBay itself is becoming a formidable third-party reseller or marketplace ala Amazon in its own right. eBay has moved beyond a person-to-person auction site to become a formidable marketplace and mobile payment platform. eBay has appreciated from its IPO over 7, 000%.
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Over the years, I've heard repeatedly from small business owners who sell in the eBay marketplace and other online channels that expanding Internet sales taxes to all transactions would hurt their ability to grow or create jobs and to fuel the price and service competition that creates value for consumers.
Contrast this with Amazon Marketplace and eBay, where the merchant share is treated as a pass-through and only transaction fees are recorded as revenue.
The operator of the world's biggest online marketplace, eBay, has agreed to partner with a Chinese firm to boost its sales in the country.
Nimble PayPal steals the spotlight, but the marketplace business remains eBay's core--and a work in progress.
College students and recent graduates without work are buying huge orders and selling them to their friends and on Taobao (a Chinese online consumer marketplace similar to eBay).
That eBay (nasdaq: EBAY - news - people )-like ad marketplace has since fostered connections between 11, 000 advertisers and publishers and attracted the attention of Yahoo!
That eBay-like ad marketplace has since fostered connections between 11, 000 advertisers and publishers and attracted the attention of Yahoo!
Another technique is to encourage customers to police suppliers: eBay, an online marketplace, hugely reduced cheating by getting buyers to rank sellers.
Amazon Web Services has already announced its reserved instances marketplace, essentially an eBay for selling off unused portions of pre-purchased AWS computing services.
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Today, the delivery options and services are defined by the marketplace (Amazon or eBay), and sellers do not have the flexibility to provide their own delivery options to their customers.
If the Supreme Court rules against Kirtsaeng and in favor of Wiley, consumers who sell goods on eBay or any secondary marketplace could face copyright infringement charges for any products made overseas.
Marketplace and auction juggernaut eBay is even sweetening the deal by offering customers free services at Bliss Spas just for using their mobile phones to shop and offering mobile-only deals of up to 80% off on Cyber Monday.
The question of uncertain reputations and the potential fraud haunted another startup that pioneered a new marketplace many years ago: eBay.
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You can buy or sell almost anything you want on eBay, Craigslist, or Amazon Marketplace.
Payment revenues once again led the growth with a 23% increase while marketplace followed at 10%. eBay competes primarily with Google, Square, Intuit GoPayment and other competitors in the payments space, and Amazon in e-commerce.
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Tech's Ben Schachter, who has a "buy" rating on eBay, expects the company's marketplace revenue to grow 16.6% year-over-year (9% on a currency-neutral basis).
At home in China, Mr. Ma is trying to stay ahead of the game as competition rises for the first time against his massive online shopping sites, Taobao Marketplace and Taobao Mall, which rival eBay.com in terms of transaction value.
As the entire internet becomes one huge marketplace with many ways to buy and sell, the challenge for eBay is to corral as much of that trade as possible.
It, like eBay, has turned an archaic paper-based industry into an efficient digital marketplace.
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Just how many clone opportunities are left in China, now that the Chinese marketplace has copies of YouTube, Amazon, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, eBay and yes, even Wikipedia.
EBay's sales for the last three months of 2012 topped analysts' forecasts as the online marketplace saw strong trading over the Christmas period.
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