Who is the owner of eBay | wiki

eBay, a multinational e-commerce company. Know about the owner of eBay and other information about the company, including the Company Profile. eBay, is widely known as a shopping website and an online auction website, which operated globally around more than 30 countries.

They serve a majority of the products that are necessary for all the needs of common people. The fresh items to the refurbished wide range listings as can be seen on their website. The largest e-Commerce website that fights directly with Amazon.

• About the owner of eBay
  

eBay, incorporated in the year 1995. Pierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay (formerly called AuctionWeb) became successful during the dot-com bubble that happened during the period 1997 to 2001. When normal people started using the Internet widely.

The company, headquartered in San Jose, California

The commercial launch of eBay happened on September 21, 1998. eBay started the business by selling broken lights and currently, they are among the top 20 websites visited daily over the globe.

Owner of eBay is Pierre Omidyar.

• About The eBay Wiki

Company Name	eBay Inc.
Official Website	www.ebay.com
Founder / Owner	Pierre Omidyar
Founded	1995
CEO	Jamie Iannone
Status	Active
Head Office	San Jose, California
Address	2025 Hamilton Avenue, San Jose, California, 95125 – USA
Customer Care	Official Page

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• Details of the owner of  eBay(Wiki)

Pierre Omidyar, a French-born American developed the direct person-to-person Online auction website which later shifted to online shopping and e-commerce website.  He began the sales of broken products through the online auction website and which he found was useful made him improve the business. The first website was made only for getting points from his girlfriend.

Pierre Omidyar is the current chairman and owner of eBay. Pierre holds graduation in Computer science from Tufts University. Before eBay, he empowered his career through Apple and Macintosh. He also helped with the development of Ink Development Corp, a software development company. Which was later purchased by Microsoft under the name eShop. Moreover,

Omidyar represented as the executive producer for the listed films:

• Merchants of Doubt (2014)
• Spotlight (2015)

Omidyar started an investment company namely Omidyar Network. Incorporated in the year 2006, for harnessing innovative organizations.

During the Initial Days, the company was owned by Echo Bay Technology Group. They were the consulting firm of Pierre Omidyar. In the year 1997, another firm, namely Benchmark Capital invested $6.7 million in eBay.

• The CEO of the Company

Devin Norse Wenig, current eBay CEO and President. He is an American Business Executive. Wenig is a holder of BA and JD degrees from Union College and the University of Columbia for Law respectively. Devin was the CEO of his father’s Nastech Pharmaceutical company after the death of his father. Later in 1993, Devin was the COO of Reuters. Wenig started his career at eBay in 2011 September as president of the Global eBay marketplace.

At present, Pierre is working on starting a dairy farm in Hawaii. He wants to reduce the tax on imported milk in Hawai and improve the Agri practice there. But he is offended by a court sue from the lawyers of Grand Hyatt Kauai Resort & Spa. This is the resort located near the proposed area for the dairy farm. As they are complaining about the possible flies and odor from the farm. But the dairy farm can yield a lot of manure for agriculture.

Moreover, Pierre is the CEO and publisher of a local news service called Honolulu Civil Beat. Located and published in Hawaii.

• Details of the eBay Company

eBay, provides customer-customer trade and business-customer trade through their website. It is a free-view website and buyers can browse through the products for free but sellers have to pay the company for listing their products on their website and even they provide a limited number of free listings.

In addition to the auction, eBay allows further features including the, Buy it Now’ feature through Half.com, and advertising through Kijiji and eBay classifieds.

Currently, eBay has enabled the online event ticket trading feature too for eBay users.

The fact about eBay was, on the day of its public launch of eBay, it reached the market price of $118 per share and then after 4 months, it reached $300.  By the year 1999, they crossed nearly the 33 million items sales per year mark.

During the year 1996, eBay started selling Airplane Tickets and other tickets after the contract agreement with Electronic Travel Auction. In the year 2001, eBay purchased a European auction website called Bazar.  Later in the year 2014, they also acquired nearly 25% of Craiglist.

In fact, eBay once bought Skype Technology in the year 2005, but significantly during 2011, it was sold completely to Microsoft for $8.5 Billion. Even StubHub and Corrigan( a visual search engine) are owned by eBay.

• Deal with PayPal

PayPal, a wholly owned subsidiary of eBay provides the feature of online money transfer worldwide. Money transactions through PayPal also can happen using Credit Cards. Present, 2015 PayPal started working as a separate Public company. eBay is about to replace PayPal by the year 2020 completely and make use of Adyen as their online payment provider sooner this year.

Adyen is an Amsterdam-based payments company incorporated in the year 2016. After the announcement of the eBay-PayPal partnership breakage, PayPal saw a market stock drop at 15%.

It was in the year 2008 when the company became a worldwide commercial firm. eBay always supports its partners and its sellers. Currently, eBay is working on leveraging Augmented Reality for its sellers for choosing the best suitable package box for their items.

The major category of items sold daily on eBay includes:

• collectibles
• decor
• appliances
• domain names
• computers
• furnishings
• equipment
• vehicles
• and other miscellaneous items

At present, eBay’s net worth- is estimated to be 1,050 crores USD. And the owner of eBay, Pierre Omidyar net worth is calculated to be $9.43 Billion.

• eBay Limited customer care

If you want to contact eBay company so you must have to loin into this website when you will enter the site you can contact your own area or realign a contact person. If you have any question or inquiry about the shopping site you can mail to the company.

They are providing a full page of contact numbers list with some email id and twitter links, You can use these all details. you can contact with company main or head office persons, with the help of some details.