Mohammad Hasan Shaikh October 2 2013 CASE ASSIGNMENT: eBay: Creating Customers on the Move 1. Which stages of the consumer decision-making process are affected most by comparison shopping on mobile platforms? Explain. 1. All stages can be considered affected less or more. In my opinion, most affected stages are: Internal information gathering – eBay application provides consumer with basic information like brand name, color, price, size, location, shipping cost, etc. After comparing this information
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Case Study: eBay eBay owns one of the world’s largest online auction platforms. In 2008, the company operated in 39 countries with 276M registered users worldwide. In 2007, the total value of all successfully closed items was $59B with an average $2,039 worth of goods trading on the website every second. eBay makes their money by charging a small fee to sellers who list their product along with a description of the item on the website. Items can be sold at fixed price or by auction. After a
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aspects of eBay have been specifically designed to support an almost freestanding economy (2000; 2003). eBay built a free market. As a facilitator, users are allowed to decide what they want to sell, encouraging continuous growth. The users or citizens are the ones who control the direction of the site. eBay created a legal system that promotes self-governance. The auction site devised a feedback forum to let users rate one another to discourage fraud. The users are constantly educated; eBay teaches
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If someone wanted to sell or buy an item, they would most likely visit one of their favorite e-commerce website, most notably eBay. eBay.com has become the world’s largest online marketplace, that enable individuals to buy and sell practically anything including books, antiques, collectibles, electronics, home furnishing, sporting goods and memorabilia, and move and DVDs to nearly every country on earth (Trites &Bortiz, 2003). It operates on a global scale, with its headquarter located in San Jose
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EBAY HISTORY eBay Inc. is an American Internet company that manages eBay.com, an online auction and shopping website in which people and businesses buy and sell a broad variety of goods and services worldwide. Founded in 1995, eBay is one of the notable success stories of the dot-com bubble; it is now a multi-billion dollar business with operations localized in over thirty countries. eBay expanded from its original "set-time" auction format to include "Buy It Now" standard shopping; shopping
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EBay Case Analysis Lynn Ryan Graduate School of Oklahoma Wesleyan University 1. How does eBay create value? Ebay creates value in different ways. First, it provides sellers the opportunity to advertise to a larger market which can be compared to newspaper, radio and TV advertising. Ebay charges a fee based on the final price. It also allows sellers to set up their own eBay stores to sell and advertise their products. Monthly fees for these stores create additional revenue for the online
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EBay and the Existence of Firms As a global online auction market, eBay provides people a new way to do online shopping, not only by purchasing a product at a certain price, but also by the unique auction format. Through auction procedure, sellers can earn more than the base price in their mind and buyers can bid the price up to the most they can afford. By setting up a convenient platform to gather sellers and buyers together, eBay reduces lots of searching costs as other websites expend
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Nova School of Business and Economics 3 de Novembro de 2011 Disciplina: Introdução à Empresa Contextualização A eBay surgiu em 1995. Consiste numa plataforma onde se efectuam compras e vendas de produtos através de licitações. Esta empresa teve sempre por base um forte espírito de comunidade e valores que ainda a caracterizam – confiança, respeito, autonomia, igualdade. O grande desafio que enfrenta desde então é manter estas características e, ao mesmo tempo, posicioná-la para crescimento
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eBay Inc.: A Case Study of Organizational Change Underlying Technical Infrastructure Optimization Nicole Schuetz*, Anna Kovaleva* and Jonathan Koomey**, *Stanford Graduate School of Business & Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources, School of Earth Sciences, Stanford University **Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance and Stanford University Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance, Stanford University Stanford Law School Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan
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----------------------- eCommerce Case Studies Case Study 1: Amazon Amazon, originally called Cadabra, was launched by Jeff Bezos in 1995. It was set up during the dotcom boom of the 1990s with an unusual business model - it did not expect to make a profit until after at least four years of business. While other dotcom businesses grew rapidly, Amazon slowly built strong foundations. Finally, at the end of its fourth year, it made a $2.5 million profit. In 2005, it made a profit of $359 million
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