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eBay Facts At-A-Glance

As of March 2007

 * 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)

 

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