eBay Fast FactseBay.co.uk
  • Launched in the UK in October 1999, eBay.co.uk is the UK's largest online marketplace® and the UK's number one e-commerce site (Nielsen / Netratings March 2007)
  • eBay.co.uk hit the 15 million customers milestone in May 2006
  • eBay.co.uk has achieved the ten million live listings landmark, meaning there are more than ten million items for sale on the site at any one time
  • Every other (47%) internet user visits eBay.co.uk at least once a month (Nielsen / Netratings, March 2007)
  • eBay.co.uk has over 13,000 categories eBay.co.uk's audience reached 14,743,000 in March 2007 (Nielsen / Netratings, March 2007)
  • eBay visitors average two hours on the site and view 266 pages per month (Nielsen / Netratings, March 2007)
  • eBay accounts for 11% of all the time UK users spend on the internet (Nielsen / Netratings, March 2007)
  • More than 68,000 people earn their primary or secondary income from trading on eBay.co.uk (ACNielsen International Research, February 2006)
  • The UK continues to grow at very strong rates, and in the process reached an important milestone: the UK achieved its first ever $100M revenue quarter in Q2 05
eBay Inc Facts and figures
  • Founded in September 1995, eBay is a global online marketplace where practically anyone can trade practically anything
  • eBay has a global presence in 37 markets, including the U.S
  • eBay has 233 million registered users worldwide
  • eBay Marketplaces net revenue for Q1 2007 totaled $1.25 billion, with 49 percent from US operations and 51 percent from our International business
  • In Q1-07, gross merchandise volume (GMV), the total value of all successfully closed items on eBay's trading platforms, was $14.3 billion. Total GMV for the full year 2006 was more than $52 billion
  • eBay users worldwide trade more than $1,839 worth of goods on the site every second
  • There were 588 million new listings added to eBay worldwide in Q1-07. At any given time, there are approximately 100 million listings worldwide, and approximately 6.4 million listings are added per day. eBay users trade in more than 50,000 categories
  • Based on Q1-07 GMV, the following categories delivered $1 billion or more in worldwide annualized GMV: eBay Motors at $16.5 billion; Consumer Electronics at $4.9 billion; Clothing & Accessories at $4.5 billion; Computers at $4 billion; Books/Movies/Music at $3.1 billion; Home & Garden at $3.6 billion; Sports at $2.6 billion; Collectibles at $2.7 billion; Business & Industrial at $2.2 billion; Toys at $2.1 billion; Jewelry & Watches at $2 billion; and Cameras & Photo at $1.5 billion; Antiques & Art at $1.4 billion and Coins & Stamps at $1.3 billion
  • While eBay is well-known for its auction format, users can also buy and sell in fixed-price formats, which accounted for 39 percent of total GMV during Q1-07
  • At the end of Q1-07, eBay hosted approximately 632,000 stores worldwide, with approximately 57 percent of stores hosted on eBay's international sites
  • Approximately 1.3 million sellers around the world use eBay as a primary or secondary source of income. (ACNielson International Research, June 2006)
  • As of September 2006, eBay members worldwide have left more than five billion feedback comments for one another regarding their eBay transactions
  • The most expensive item sold on eBay to date is a private business jet for $4.9 million
Sources : Nielson/NetRatings and eBay Internal Data (March 2007)