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eBay Inc.
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eBay Inc. is an American e-commerce company headquartered in San Jose, California, founded in 1995 by Pierre Omidyar as an online auction website. It operates online marketplaces in markets worldwide, connecting individual and business sellers with buyers and earning revenue mainly through commissions charged on completed sales.
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eBay, connecting individual buyers directly with individual sellers, is the most commonly cited real-world example of a customer-to-customer trading platform.
eBay, built around individuals reselling used and secondhand goods to other buyers, is widely credited as recommerce pioneering online platform.
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