{"id":202466,"date":"2020-04-13T16:00:44","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T15:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/?p=202466"},"modified":"2025-02-16T15:07:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T15:07:39","slug":"ebay-facts","status":"publish","type":[],"link":"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/ebay-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Exciting Facts About eBay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>eBay has been around for years and has become an everyday tool to use to shop and auction your unwanted things online.\n</p><p>But do you know how long eBay has been around? How has it become one of the biggest ways to sell items online?\n</p><p>Here are 10 exciting facts about eBay that will leave you wanting to discover some of the mysteries people list online.\n</p><h2 class='\"list\"'>eBay was launched in 1995.\n</h2><p><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"alignnone' size-full wp-image-202497 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2020%5C/03%5C/ebay-founder.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"eBay' was founded in by pierre omidyar width='\"728\"' height='\"360\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ebay-founder.jpg' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'>\n</p><p>eBay was created by an Iranian-American computer programmer called Pierre Omidyar, on <a href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/day%5C/september-3%5C/%5C%22">September 3, 1995.\n<p>At the age of 28, he was working on designing code for an online auction website originally called Auction Web.\n</p><p>Auction Web was a side project, for fun alongside his everyday job.\n</p><p>It wasn\u2019t until the website was getting too much traffic that he decided to launch as a business and re-branding it as eBay.\n</p><h2 class='\"list\"'>The first item to be sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.\n</h2><p><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"alignnone' size-full wp-image-202496 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2020%5C/03%5C/ebay-first-sale.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"The' first item ever sold on ebay was a broken laser pointer width='\"728\"' height='\"360\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ebay-first-sale.jpg' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'>\n</p><p>The broken laser pointer&nbsp;was an item laying around Omidyar\u2019s house, that he thought he would use to test out the site.\n</p><p>In the first week, he listed it as $1 and to no surprise, it didn\u2019t sell.\n</p><p>So he listed it again for the same price for a second week.\n</p><p>This time a bidding war took off and it sold for $14.83.\n</p><p>He contacted the seller to check that they realized what they had bid on, and it turned out they were a collector of broken laser pens!\n</p><h2 class='\"list\"'>The British use eBay the most.\n</h2><p><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"alignnone' size-full wp-image-202495 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2020%5C/03%5C/ebay-uk.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"The' uk uses ebay the most width='\"728\"' height='\"360\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ebay-uk.jpg' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'>\n</p><p>That&rsquo;s right, the Brits use eBay the most across the world. Around 19 million British people use eBay in a month, to sell old and new items.\n</p><p>The UK also buys more items a month per capita than any other collective of countries in the world.\n</p><p>This is probably because the British love a bit of a bidding war, what\u2019s better than being able to auction from your own home!\n</p><h2 class='\"list\"'>The first item sold in the UK was a CD.\n</h2><p><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"alignnone' size-full wp-image-202494 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2020%5C/03%5C/ebay-scorpians.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"The' first item sold in the uk was a cd by scoprions width='\"728\"' height='\"360\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ebay-scorpians.jpg' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'>\n</p><p>The CD was by a German rock band called The Scorpions.&nbsp;It was a copy of their single released in 1996 called &ldquo;<em>You &amp; I&ldquo;.\n<p>eBay wasn\u2019t launched in the UK until 1999 which was 4 years after it was set up in the US.\n</p><h2 class='\"list\"'>In 2008 the first person reached a feedback score of 1 million.\n</h2><p><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"alignnone' size-full wp-image-202493 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2020%5C/03%5C/ebay-million-reviews.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"Jack' sheng was the first to receive over million reviews width='\"728\"' height='\"360\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ebay-million-reviews.jpg' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'>\n</p><p>There have been multiple, but the first person to reach a feedback score of 1 million was Jack Sheng.\n</p><p>After 8 years of selling, on <a href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/day%5C/november-13%5C/%5C%22">November 13, 2008, Sheng became the first person to reach this amount of reviews.\n<p>To recognize his success, eBay even made a special shooting star icon to put alongside his name on eBay.\n</p><p>Even better, eBay also named one of their conference rooms after him.\n</p><p>He then managed to double the number of reviews to 2 million within another 18 months.\n</p><h2 class='\"list\"'>Even NASA has used eBay!\n</h2><p><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"alignnone' size-full wp-image-202492 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2020%5C/03%5C/ebay-nasa.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"Nasa' used ebay to find replacement parts width='\"728\"' height='\"360\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ebay-nasa.jpg' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'>\n</p><p>That\u2019s correct! One thing that is great about eBay is that you can find everything and anything.\n</p><p>In 2002, <a href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/nasa-facts%5C/%5C%22">NASA had some issues with the discontinuation of replacement parts they needed.\n<p>So they turned to eBay in hope of finding some second hand parts for their machinery.\n</p><p>Due to the stop in production, they used eBay as a tool to search for sellers who might have listed items or parts from the same machines.\n</p><h2 class='\"list\"'>eBay started out with a yellow interface.\n</h2><p><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"alignnone' size-full wp-image-202491 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2020%5C/03%5C/ebay-yellow.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"eBays' background color has changed several times since it was founded width='\"728\"' height='\"360\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ebay-yellow.jpg' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'>\n</p><p>The sometimes blinding and glaring yellow background was the original design for the interface of eBay and it was used up until the site changed to white.\n</p><p>Due to a high volume of complaints after they changed to white, eBay respected their customers choice, so they changed it back to the bright yellow.\n</p><p>But in a slow passive aggressive manner over time, they faded the yellow color until it eventually was back to being white.\n</p><p>This was in hope that customers would not notice the gradual change over time.\n</p><h2 class='\"list\"'>The most expensive item ever sold on eBay was a yacht.\n</h2><p><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"alignnone' size-full wp-image-202490 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2020%5C/03%5C/ebay-yacht.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"eBays' most expensive item was a super yacht that sold for million width='\"728\"' height='\"360\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ebay-yacht.jpg' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'>\n</p><p>Over the years there have been many items, sometimes even joke items that have reached millions but not quite as much as this one.\n</p><p>The 405 foot (123.4 meters) super yacht, designed by Frank Mulder sold for a whopping $170 million.\n</p><p>The yacht had its own cinema, gym helipad and many more over the top features.\n</p><p>Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich was the lucky winner of this bid.\n</p><h2 class='\"list\"'>Thanks to eBay, a new species was discovered.\n</h2><p><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"alignnone' size-full wp-image-202489 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2020%5C/03%5C/ebay-urchin.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"eBay' helped the discovery of a new sea urchin species width='\"728\"' height='\"450\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ebay-urchin.jpg' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'>\n</p><p>In <a href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/year%5C/2006%5C/%5C%22">2006 a type of </a><a href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/facts-about-urchins%5C/%5C%22">sea urchin was listed after being found in the Pacific Ocean.\n<p>This is not the first time an item has been listed in the wrong category, or identified as something it is not.\n</p><p>A British scientist and Zoologist named Simon Coppard came across the urchin and from the photo recognized that this was something new.\n</p><p>At the time, Coppard was working with The Natural <a href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/100-history-facts%5C/%5C%22">History Museum in London and was able to confirm from the photo uploaded that the species was unidentified, making it a new discovery of sea urchin that he named Coelopleurus exquisitus.\n<h2 class='\"list\"'>There is no limit to the amount of items that can be for sale at once.\n</h2><p><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"alignnone' size-full wp-image-202488 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.factstoryhub.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2020%5C/03%5C/ebay-overload.jpg%5C%22" alt="\&quot;It's" not clear how may items can be published simultenously without crashing ebays systems but the largest to date is million width='\"728\"' height='\"360\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ebay-overload.jpg' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'>\n</p><p>The exact number of items that can be listed on eBay at once before the server\u2019s crash is unclear.\n</p><p>But the record for the most items listed, collectively form multiple sellers at one given time was 800 million items.\n</p><p>Their selling process is one of the simplest platforms available online which makes it accessible to almost everyone.\n</p><p>With this vast quantity of numbers eBay does not create an annual report on how many items are sold within a year.\n</p><p>&nbsp;\n</p><p>eBay will remain 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