eBay was still the world's marketplace for used goods and collectibles in 2010, but its auction format was losing ground to fixed-price Buy It Now listings and to Amazon. It owned PayPal, which handled most of its payments, and Skype, which it had sold a majority stake in during late 2009.
- Domain in 2010
- ebay.com
- Launched
- 3 September 1995
- Founders
- Pierre Omidyar
- Owner in 2010
- eBay Inc. (public)
- Status today
- Still active
What people used it for
- Bidding on auctions
- Buying and selling used electronics and collectibles
- Feedback scores as reputation
Interface characteristics
- Multicoloured logo and category sidebar
- Listings with bid counts and time remaining
- Feedback percentages next to seller names
Notable features
- Buy It Now fixed-price listings
- PayPal integration
- eBay Motors
What happened later
eBay spun off PayPal in 2015 and refocused on fixed-price marketplace selling.
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