| Selling on eBay is a lot of fun. It can also be very | | | | broken laser pointer. He got $14.00 for it. |
| profitable. To help add to the fun side of making | | | | 4. The name eBay came from the original domain that |
| money online by selling on eBay, I a going to give a | | | | founder Pierre Omidyar used, His company name was |
| history lesson in the form of trivia questions. Have | | | | Echo Bay and the auction site was only a part of |
| some fun with it and amaze you friends with these fun | | | | Echo Bay's entire site. |
| facts. | | | | 5. The original name used was eBay Auctionweb. The |
| Questions: | | | | name was changed to eBay in 1997, the name people |
| | | | had already started calling the site, when Pierre |
| 1. When was eBay created? | | | | changed the company name as well. |
| 2. Who started it? | | | | 6. The world wide expansion happened in 1999 when |
| 3. What was the very first item sold and how much | | | | the company opened sites in the UK, Australia, and |
| did is sell for? | | | | Germany. |
| 4. Where did the name eBay come from? | | | | 7. For his efforts in creating the most popular auction |
| 5. What was it called in the beginning? | | | | site in the world, Pierre Omidyar has made over 3Billion |
| 6. When did the company go worldwide? | | | | Dollars! Millions of items are bought and sold on eBay |
| 7. How much money has the founder made? | | | | every day. Surveys suggest that out of every $100.00 |
| 8. When did it become a publicly traded company? | | | | spent on the internet, $14.00 is spent on eBay. |
| 9. When did they introduce the Buy it Now option? | | | | 8. During the peak dot com boom, in 1998, the |
| 10. What other companies has eBay purchased? | | | | company became so massive that it went public. |
| Answers: | | | | 9. The Buy it Now option first became available in |
| | | | 2000. |
| 1. The birth of eBay happened in September of 1995 in | | | | 10. In 2000 they purchased Half dot Com and in 2002 |
| San Jose, Ca. | | | | they purchased PayPal. EBay now owns a host of |
| 2. The founder is a man named Pierre Omidyar. He | | | | other companies including: Craigslist, Shopping.com, |
| wrote the initial code, that started this world wide | | | | Skype, Stumble Upon, Bill Me Later, and many more. |
| phenomenon, over the course of just one weekend. | | | | So there you have it, a fun little history lesson. Stay |
| 3. The first item ever sold was Pierre Omidyar's | | | | tuned for future articles in the Sell on eBay series. |