I found the answer lolol 😉

1995 Set up in by Pierre Omidyar, although it is a myth that he did so because his wife, an avid Pez sweet dispenser collector, wanted to trade with other collectors over the net
1995 Mr Omidyar sells his first item - his own broken laser pointer - for $14
1997 Meg Whitman joins eBay
1999 Sets up in the UK, Germany
1999 Site crashes for 22 hours
2000 Sets up in Japan
2001 Overtakes Amazon as the most visited e-commerce site
2002 Moves into China
2002 Buys online payment service Paypal
2002 Pulls out of Japan
2004 moves into South Korea and India, giving it a foothold in 29 international markets


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Company overview:

Background: eBay was founded in September 1995, with the first auction on Labor Day. Pierre Omidyar started the idea when he was looking for people to trade PEZ candy dispensers with throughout the country. He created eBay to resemble an auction like-trading format, so that buyers could follow their bids through out the process. He also allowed sellers to upload pictures of their items, and he created an online community with chat rooms for users to interact and discuss items and hobbies. There are currently tens of millions of registered members around the world.

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EBay was founded in 1995 and quickly became the world’s biggest online trading community. It is a marketplace for the sale of goods and services by individuals and small businesses. Basically people auction off items that they usually wouldn’t be able to sell in person over the Internet. The eBay community includes up to 18.9 million users and you can get pretty much anything you can think of.



A man called Pierre Omidyar invented the idea of an online trading company. It was originally a plan to continue his wife’s pez dispenser collection; well it did a lot more than that. It’s now spread all over the world in over 150 countries. Who could have guessed that pez would span a new age of business. Not me and certainly not anyone else, especially Pierre. In July 1998 he stated, “Personally, I have always believed in helping people become the best they can


so when I was in college lolol they were teaching us wrong then ???????????? confusing and oh sooooooooooo upsetting ... considering that this information is still floating around ...