Cyber-Bargains

Internet has become a powerful and ubiquitous communication mechanism to facilitate, execute, and process business transactions. It also used in communicating relevant information to decision-makers including the customers. There are many companies are making large investments in e-commerce. One of the succeed companies is eBay.


eBay has started its business in 1995 as an online community marketplace for the sale of goods and services for individual. It is founded by a computer programmer, Pierre Omidyar’s who wrote the code for an auction website. Omidyar also is the chairman of eBay. The headquarter is located at San Jose, California, United States.


Now, eBay is the world’s top online community of buyers and sellers. eBay offers boundless opportunity to the registered users worldwide to come together and trade various of items such as cars, accessories, electronics and others. Some items are rare and valuable also can be found in eBay. This result the users worldwide prefer to search for the items they want at eBay.


eBay enable the registered sellers sell their items in any form to the people interested from anywhere, anytime. Such as Ms. A (Malaysia) want to sell her homemade designed T-shirt but she couldn’t find anyone who wanted, so she put it on eBay and people interested can bid for it. eBay has the astonishing power that it may be sold to a person at United States.


One of the reasons eBay success is that it has a fully automated system as when the sellers list out the items for sale, all the users can browse it in the same time. The items are arranged systematically by topics, where each type of auction has its own category. It’s easy to be found and convenient for the users.

Marketing strategies also helps eBay business expanded rapidly and build its memberships. eBay has done a regular basis for promoting it through newspaper, radio and some banner ads on other websites. However, eBay has done very little promotion in terms of expansion of memberships if compare with the normal business.

The users are satisfied with the transactions done, as they can buy and sell with reasonable confidence that they will get what they were promised. The people are really enjoyed looking around for merchandise, and competing in bidding process. This of course resulted by eBay has a user friendly designed webpages. This help ebay as successful as it has been.

Let’s enjoy in eBay Malaysia. http://www.ebay.com.my/