时间:2018-12-28 作者:英语课 分类:世界名牌博览


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它创立于1995年9月,当时Omidyar的女朋友酷爱Pez糖果盒,却为找不到同道中人交流而苦恼。于是Omidyar建立起一个拍卖网站,希望能帮助女友和全美的Pez糖果盒爱好者交流,这就是eBay。令Omidyar没有想到的是,eBay非常受欢迎,很快网站就被收集Pez糖果盒、芭比娃娃等物品的爱好者挤爆[3]  。
Omidyar第一件贩卖的物品是一只坏掉的雷射指示器,以14.83元成交。他惊讶地询问得标者:“您难道不知道这玩意坏了吗?”Omidyar接到了以下的回复信:“我是个专门收集坏掉的雷射指示器玩家。”
杰夫史科尔(Jeff Skoll)在1996年被聘雇为该公司首任总裁及全职员工。1997年9月该公司正式更名为ebay。起初该网站属于Omidyar的顾问公司Echo 1 Bay Technology Group。Omidyar曾经尝试注册一个EchoBay的网址,却发现该网址已被Echo Bay矿业注册了,所以他将EchoBay改成他的第二备案:Ebay。
1997年Omidyar开始为eBay物色CEO,看中哈佛MBA出身、并先后在宝洁、迪斯尼担任过副总裁的梅格·惠特曼。惠特曼由于从未听说过eBay而拒绝加盟,后经职业猎头贝尼尔的软磨硬泡同意,并把eBay带向今天的辉煌。
如今eBay已有1.471亿注册用户,有来自全球29个国家的卖家,每天都有涉及几千个分类的几百万件商品销售,成为世界上最大的电子集市。2003年交易额为238亿美元,净收入22亿美元。
2015年4月10日,PayPal从eBay分拆,协议规定,eBay在5年内不得推出支付服务,而PayPal则不能为实体产品开发自主的在线交易平台。
 

eBay Inc. is the world’s leading e-commerce company. It was founded as an online auction 2 site in 1995 called AuctionWeb by Pierre Omidyar. He said: “What I wanted to do was create an efficient market, where regular people could compete with big business…It was a little bit of an experiment.” He changed the name in 1997 to be similar to his company Echo Bay Technology Group. Within two years of starting, the company hosted 2,000,000 auctions 3. The company website explains the success story to date: “With more than 90 million active users globally, eBay is the world's largest online marketplace, where practically anyone can buy and sell practically anything…In 2009, the total worth of goods sold on eBay was $60 billion -- $2,000 every second.” The company employs over 15,000 people throughout the world.
 
 


1 echo
n.回音,共鸣;vi.发出回声;vt.模仿,附和
  • She shouted on the mountaintop and listened for the echo.她在山顶上大声喊着,然后聆听着回声。
  • I should like to echo the words of the previous speaker.我想重复前面一位发言者的话。
2 auction
n.拍卖;拍卖会;vt.拍卖
  • They've put the contents of their house up for auction.他们把房子里的东西全都拿去拍卖了。
  • They bought a new minibus with the proceeds from the auction.他们用拍卖得来的钱买了一辆新面包车。
3 auctions
n.拍卖,拍卖方式( auction的名词复数 )
  • They picked up most of the furniture at auctions in country towns. 他们大部分的家具都是在乡村镇上的拍卖处买的。 来自辞典例句
  • Our dealers didn't want these cars, so we had to dump them at auctions. 我们的承销商都不要这些车子,因此我们只好贱价拍卖。 来自辞典例句
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