Ebay

 Overview
Launched on September 3, 1995, Ebay.com has become the worlds largest online marketplace. The site features auctions as well as items for sale with over 7 billion dollars of revenue in 2009. Ebay allows the sale or auction of almost any item except for: guns/ammunition, unexploded ordinance, government documents, sexually explicit material, human body parts, and live animals. Some of the more interesting items sold on ebay are: a revolutionary war fortress, german submarines from ww2, russian fighter jets, a single frosted flake that sold for over $1,000. and a couple from Arkansas sold the rights to name their unborn child.

**History**
As said in the overview above the history of eBay started back in 1995 by software developer Pierre Omidyar in his own living room. It started as just a side project on Omidyar's site and was originally called AuctionWeb. What started off as just selling collectible items such as broken laser pointers for around 15$ (first item sold on AuctionWeb) soon turned into a huge profitable site and by 1997 was worth $5 million. In the late 90s eBay came up with a list of banned items to sell including human organs, guns, and Nazi memorabilia. By 1998 Omidyar was a billionaire. In 2002 eBay purchased PayPal for users to pay for their items quickly and easily. Today eBay is still going strong but due to the recent economic conditioned it has declined a bit. Other competitors such as Amazon marketplace has also taken a toll on eBay today. (nfoltz)

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