The Perfect Store: Inside eBay

by Adam Cohen

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eBay is one of the most successful commercial sites on the Internet. This is the story of eBay's humble beginnings, when it was launched from a spare bedroom in Pierre Omidyar's house, to its status today - with 20 million users. eBay started as a way to help Omidyar's fiancee trade with other collectors. It returned a profit in its first month and went on to change the face of business. This volume: reveals details of the company's rapid rise and the impact it has had on its users throughout the virtual marketplace; examines the range of customers, from the woman who wakes at 3 am to bid on a toaster, to the woman who had to rent a warehouse for her thriving business selling bubble-wrap; reveals why eBay has succeeded where so many dot-coms have failed; and provides information for those trying to understand how the Web is changing business, and for those trying to anticipate the next big thing.
  • ISBN10 0749923490
  • ISBN13 9780749923495
  • Publish Date 25 July 2002 (first published 5 June 2002)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 7 February 2005
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
  • Imprint Piatkus Books
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 320
  • Language English