First, and as important to your success as anything you learn here, is clearly understanding how eBay users find things to
spend their money on.
No matter what type of buyer they are, no matter where they come from, they all use the same tool to
find auction ads;
“They use the search bar to type in general terms..!”
Yes, you read that correctly: Fourteen years. eBay was created in September 1995, by a man called Pierre Omidyar, who was living in San Jose. He wanted his site – then called ‘AuctionWeb’ – to be an online marketplace, and wrote the first code for it in one weekend. It was one of the first websites of its kind in the world. The name ‘eBay’ comes from the domain Omidyar used for his site. His company’s name was Echo Bay, and the ‘eBay AuctionWeb’ was originally just one part of Echo Bay’s website at ebay.com. The first thing ever sold on the site was Omidyar’s broken laser pointer, which he got $14 for.