What, eBay isn't good enough for us?
In February of 1996, about six months after I created eBay, I started receiving a spate of complaints. Everyone was complaining about each other. I felt very much like I was a parent who had to adjudicate the brothers beating each other up.
What makes eBay successful. . the real value and the real power at eBay is the community. It's the buyers and sellers coming together and forming a marketplace.
Today, over one million people now make their living on eBay, which is astounding.
It's a story of little girls who are pressed into working in sweat shops in games, who spend all day doing repetitive grinding tasks like making shirts, which are then converted into gold and sold on eBay.
History shows fans want consolidation; you see it across the web every place. The big players are people like Google, Amazon, eBay, Facebook.
You'll fail at some things - that's a learning experience that you need so that you can take that on to the next experience. What you learn from those challenges and those failures are what will get you past the next ones. . . I was the pretty consistent bull and the cheerleader on eBay actually.
From what I was able to hear," Dane said, "Tara dumped off a surprise baby with your mother, who's planning to sell it on eBay. " "Social Services," I said. "She hasn't thought of eBay yet.
I usually bring a point and shoot with me so I can go out on the weekends and shoot a bit. I used to bring more cameras, but I'm also an Ebay nut so sometimes I'll order something if I'm really pining for it when I'm on location.
Guess what? The world changes. eBay has defined e-commerce.
I was working at eBay, so I would just troll the vintage categories, find old amps and what have you. I was buying a fair amount of stuff and playing with it and then selling it back.
New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster. com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
You owe dough? You ain't give up that cheese? Hey. . . Sooner or later, you'll Pay, Pal (no eBay).
EBay may be a shark in the ocean, but I'm a crocodile in the Yangtze River. If we fight in the ocean, we lose, but if we fight in the river, we win.
The thing that people seem to miss about not just Google, but also our competitors, Yahoo, eBay and so forth, is that there's an awful lot of communities that have never been served by traditional media.
I was collecting Barbies. I know. . . embarrassing. I sold them all on eBay, and traded them for vintage dishes. So I've collected two things.
I wouldn't know how to find eBay on the computer if my life depended on it.
Better be," Eve said. She mock-bit at his finger. "I could totally date somebody else, you know. " "And I could rent out your room. " "And I could put your game console on eBay. " "Hey," Shane protested. "Now you're just being mean.
When you're paid $29 for something and 30 or 40 years later you're seeing it on eBay with pages going for $199 or more, it's like, "Dammit!"
Don't touch any of my weapons without my permission. " "Well, there goes my plan for selling them all on eBay," Clary muttered. "Selling them on what?" Clary smiled blandly at him. "A mythical place of great magical power.