Is ebay simple to use?
Jeff Grundy
eBay in a nutshell.
13 years ago a computer programmer named Pierre Omidyar started a company called AuctionWeb. Since that time in 1995 the company has grown from a start up in San Jose, California to a world wide presence called ebay. Having acquired PayPal, Skype and Shopping.com ebay has been profitable almost from day one.
eBay has around 276 million registered users in 39 markets world-wide and approximately 1.3 million sellers. Although it started out as an auction site users are able to buy and sell in fixed-price as well as auction formats and this they do continually, trading more than $2039.00 worth of goods, from collectibles to computers and virtually everything in between, every second of the day.
Starting out auctioning used collectibles and goods, ebay's growth has grown to include all sorts of new products along with much unwanted goods. Ebay thieves on one mans garbage is another mans treasure. Whole businesses has grown out of ebay's auctions.
How quick can you get going?
The following quote sadly is a common opinion of ebay's ease of use. "It is unfortunate that eBay has gotten more and more complicated than when I had first joined in 1999. I have to say, eBay.com was faster, more efficient, and was much easier to use back then. I've spent a lot of time on eBay and you would think that it would get easier and easier to use. However, because they keep adding features, it is actually getting more difficult to use. What a shame."
In an effort to continually improve upon the system , while at the same time add on many new features, seems to have created ebays complexity issuers from the sellers standpoint. Yet it appears it is theses very same troubling features that keep the sellers coming back for more and more profitable auctions. There are certainly two sides to every story.
All in all from the buyers standpoint the system is pretty easy to use. The most difficult part being trying to pick what you want from the millions of choices. The first step is to register and ebay walks you through the process. One major stumbling block for the new buyer is the possibility of being ripped off. As with any transaction care must be taken before sending off your hard earned money.
Final Words
The answer to is ebay easy to use. Yes if you are a buyer, all and all it is simple fast and certainly exciting. It is this heart pounding excitement of waiting to see if you won the bid or not that has created such a giant company from an online garage sale.
As such it is as easy to pick up junk as it is to find a real treasure. However, the millions of addicted buyers suggest that there is a lot out there worth bidding for.
About the Author:
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