Security is a number one priority for many internet users who are looking to make online transactions. A common problem, however, is that many users do not even know what to look for when trying to identify internet fraud. Awareness of the most common internet fraud scams is the first and best defense against internet [...]
I personally think that craigslist is much easier to use than eBay. I experience craigslist sell tool, because I had to sell a lots of staff for my boss, and I have found that listing my items through craigslist have gave better results. One of the features that I like in craigslist is that you [...]
Both of these websites can be used to sell possessions on-line, but the important question is which one is better to use for the seller of goods? The reason most people sell items on the Internet is because it is often easier than selling something to a consignment store and there are more opportunities [...]
10 years ago, the idea of ebay would have sounded absurd to most people. Who in his right mind would buy something from a random stranger over the internet? Anonymity, one of the internet’s biggest strengths, is also one of its biggest weaknesses. Ebay has successfully harnessed the power of the individual on the web [...]
Ebay
What principles did we learn from eBay?
User driven content
They’ve made it really easy to buy and sell
PayPal
What makes eBay successful
A global audience
Empowers the average person to buy and sell
They’ve created an [...]
Pierre Omidayar is, as some of the previous class blogs have stated, the founder of eBay and is an internet entrepreneur. He possesses some entrepreneurial characteristics that can be applied to our lives as students and future entrepreneurs. He says in one interview, “I was just pursuing what I enjoyed doing. I mean, I was pursuing [...]
Nine years ago, I was astonished and confused to hear that friends of ours had purchased both a boat and a car online on some “new” website called Ebay. Little did I know, Ebay had already been up and running for at least three and a half years.
Nowadays, you can buy just about anything and [...]
I have an ebay account, but I have never used it. I have never bought nor sold on ebay; so why do I have an account? I have this feeling that there will be something I need someday and I will only be able to find it on ebay. I have even gone as far [...]
When we talked about facebook, we talked about Mark Zukerberg, so i thought is only fitting to say something about Meg Whitman. While she didn’t found eBay, she is responsible for grwoing it into what it is today.
Here are excerpts from an article I found detailing Whitman’s transformation of eBay:
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 23, 2008 (AFP) [...]
Facebook, itunes, wikipedia, flickr, basically any web 2.0 service what do they all have in common. CONVENIENCE! Sure we might say that we need most of these services now after we have become so dependent on them for the past couple of years, but honestly do we need any of them. I would argue that [...]