Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Provide an example of an E-commerce success and its causes


These recent years, eBay is popularly known as one of the largest business that runs on the internet which can also be called as E-Commerce. Founder of eBay, Pierre Omidyar whom very passionate in developing software (E-Commerce) that enable public to list items of various interest and various degrees thus sellers and buyers able to meet up and do transaction or trade electronically via internet. Pierre developed the software that used the auction process as the method for establishing how merchandise is valued and eventually how it is exchanged between buyer and seller.

Besides, his wife was excited over Pez collection but things get difficult before E-Commerce was widely introduced because ability for public to buy and trade or sell with each other of similar interests is limited by geographical considerations. Despite in this consideration, publics are still able to trade via a trade publication however the interval between publications could take several weeks or months until all of that was shortened down when Pierre, at the prompting of his wife and interest in Pez dispenser collections, used his interest in fragmented markets and efficient marketplaces as a laboratory for what eventually became eBay.

Its headquarter located in San Jose, California with approximately 400 employees running overall operations and till now eBay has become world's largest online trading community where eBay offered users an opportunity to come together in one Internet site and be able to buy and trade a wide range of items, including fine collectibles. It also allows people to pursue their interests and their passions in the areas of their hobbies and their collectibles. Besides eBay allows people to often times connect with some very fond and special early childhood memories and most important is that they mostly use Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) software, and payment processing is outsourced. As of all these factors, caused eBay became popular and a success E-Commerce business in the industry.

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