Essays on Ebay

Question 1

Amazon has the benefit of eliminating overhead as well as carrying hefty quantities of inventory because it usually orders these books from it distributors. The company has grown to emerge as one of the largest retailing online companies as well as the largest e-commerce retailer globally. It avails goods such as books, clothing, toys, and electronics at competitive prices. Additionally, Amazon usually spends much of the earned cash in building more satisfying centers in order to accommodate more data and technology offerings. Walmart is among the largest e-commerce retailer on the internet, which provides Amazon with stiff competition. Walmart

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Introduction

EBay logo; figure 1: source (Walia & Zahedi, 2013)
So, what next for Groupon Company? It is alleged that eBay is on the final move to buying out the renowned Groupon Company. The company is facing some financial mishaps; lack of continued progress in terms of expansion across the globe is affecting the profits margins for the business. The company is believed to be performing well across the US, but its performance in terms of expansion into the global market is relatively low. This is due to its inferiority.
Who is behind the deal? The CEO of eBay is behind

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Executive summary

Online marketing has with time become the most convenient way of buying and selling merchandise. The online methods of payment are the most lucrative methods to earn cash fast with great ease. This is made possible by the several card companies including Visa and MasterCard. In the modern world, all needed is one to give the card number to the online store upon which funds are deducted, and hence payments made. This method of payment had become the most popular payment method up until other systems, where emails make payments we’re introduced. In the latter system, one needs

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The recent debate about whether eBay should spin PayPal off is fanned by conflicting approaches to increasing company profitability, value to shareholders, and customers. On one side, the activist investor is claiming that PayPal will be more profitable if it is spun off, while on the other side, eBay board members claim that both eBay and PayPal are profitable together than they would be independently. According to the activist, PayPal, which accounts for a big portion of eBay revenue, would be more innovative and be more competitive in the online payment sector if it branched off. In his argument

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Business

Part A Whole Role Report
The company in the e-commerce industry chosen for this assignment is Ebay. Ebay is an online ecommerce marketplace that connects the buyers and sellers all over the world that can buy or sell anything using the online platform.
- Workplace Roles and Responsibilities

The workplace roles and responsibilities for the various employees in the online marketplace Ebay include the following:

- Functionality of the Ebay platform including the automatic payment system and order processing. The functionality and technical responsibilities of the employees in the technical team are to ensure that the website is functioning 24 hours without any technical error and loads on time. The servers team maintains the website administration

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Introduction

EBay is one of the key players in the online shopping industry. According to Hudson, eBay host around 200million buyers or shoppers and various business transacting in the site (1). Originally, eBay started as an online garage-sale-style auction but currently eBay has evolved to be the world force in the retail industry. The marketplace has various frameworks for selling various products or items for both the small and large businesses. Hudson notes that, eBay is the place to go while one is looking for discount on items and unique collectibles (2).
Just like other forms of business, this online

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Evidence abounds that online retail stores such as Amazon and eBay are causing brick-and-mortar stores to close down. Whether reducing their portfolio of stores or going out of business altogether, owners of physical stores are facing a daunting challenge when competing with online retailers that are increasingly attracting customers.
The most important reason that customer chose online shopping over going to a physical store is comfort. Next in line comes availability. Not only is the customer afforded the comfort of sitting at home or anywhere to browse through hundreds of products at the click of a button, he or

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MKTG300 Final Quiz

- Analyze the marketing environment and the forces shaping eBay’s business over the years.
The marketing environment of Ebay can be analyzed on the basis of a SWOT analysis that identifies the external opportubities and threats and the internal strengths and weaknesses of the company.

SWOT Analysis of Ebay

Strengths:
- World’s largest marketplace: Ebay is positioned as the world’s largest marketplace that provides a platform to buyers and sellers to sell and buy goods on the website. Ebay is a website where anything can be bought or sold.
- High Brand Recognition: Ebay is a well established brand that

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Introduction

Ebay is an established brand in the area of electronic commerce and is recognized as the global marketplace for the buying and selling of any goods. The current paper provides a strategic analysis of Ebay.

Vision and Mission of Ebay

The mission of Ebay is to provide a global online marketplace that allows anybody to buy or sell anything and thus enables economic opportunity around the world . The company provides an online trading platform that connects buyers and sellers across the different parts of the world. The mission of the company is to ensure a safe platform for the users and protects their interests

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Executive Summary

Globalization and technology have transformed the business environment. Organizations are competing with each other on a global platform to attract customers. There is a need to create strategies that allow organizations to continuously adapt themselves towards the changing business environment for a sustainable growth and development.
The current report presents a strategic analysis of company Ebay that has established itself as the world’s leading online marketplace for buyers and sellers across the world. The report analyzes the internal and external business environment of Ebay and also provides recommendations for future business strategies for Ebay. The external environment analysis

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The first person logs into the site and heads straight to the buying section and lazily scroll through as if he is looking for nothing specific at first. The user is relaxed and seems to be in no hurry to settle on one commodity. He then looks for other better deals by looking at the various offers available. The eBay user seems to be very keen on checking on the postage cost.
The user does not use the sellers section at all. He says he only buys on eBay and has never had the experience of being a seller

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1-1 Evaluate current creative and innovative management processes in your organization (if not choose a company) by using the Innovation assessment checklist given to you by Tutor. Describe the procedures and make comparisons with other departments/organizations?
eBay was founded in 1995 by Pierre Omidyar and is headquartered in San Jose, California in the United States. Its strategy and goals are aligned to its mission, which is to reach every customer in the world by providing them with a global platform. It is an e-commerce company that provides platforms and services that enable the conduct of buying and selling transactions

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Introduction – use headers / subtitles through out

I will mark grammar problems and you will have to correct them.
Ebay was founded in 1995 by Pierre Omidyar and is currently headquartered in San Jose, California (Bjornsson, 2001). It was originally meant to be an online “flea market” selling goods for individuals. After selling the first item listed, a broken laser printer, Pierre began to expand the website. In 1995 and 1996, eBay began to hire its first employees and in January of 1997 the site hosted eight times as many auctions than of the entire previous year (Bjornsson, 2001). In 1998, Pierre and his cofounder introduced

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eBusiness: EBay

EBay and Target market profile

EBay is an online auction industry that was founded in 1995 and has since grown dramatically. Similar to its competitors, it does not produce any tangible or physical goods. The firm’s model of business is to make income from facilitating information movement through the internet. It provides the services of connecting independent buyers, suppliers and sellers together. It makes cash through charging sellers fees and commissions. Its mission is to offer a global trading platform where nearly everyone can trade nearly anything (mis.kent.edu, 2010). The achievement of this mission would only be probable through the help

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Business Analysis:

Discuss the on-going competition between Alibaba, Amazon, and eBay. Alibaba, Amazon, and eBay are all participating in the business to business (B2B) and business to consumers (B2C) e-commerce industry. E-commerce is a method of doing business, which allows transactions to occur place over the internet via sites that links vendor, host and buyer over a network. Amazon and eBay have been business to business e-commerce competitors with their primary customers coming from the US market for the past few years of existence. The emergence of Alibaba, which is presently the world leader in B2B e-commerce, coming out of China,

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In the business world, surrounding factors create complexity of operations because of the great dynamism that characterizes them. In essence, many changes occur in business, all which may promote or hinder growth of businesses. Of course, adaptability to the changing business environment is inevitable for entrepreneurs who have a desire to become successful.
Usually, six elements constitute the business environment. These are legal and regulatory, economic, technological, competitive, social and global environments. Businesses thrive in a healthy environment as opposed to unfavorable conditions. Companies should continuously examine the business environment in order to excel. Obviously, changing trends would affect

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[Writer’s Name]

Business Overview
eBay was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in San Jose, California, United States of America. It is involved in the business of providing online services and tools to help consumers in online and mobile commerce and payments internationally. eBay can be categorized under the Catalog and Mail Order Houses, and has operations in over 30 countries. It has about 30,000 full time employees currently working under its name. The company made $11.5 billion in revenue in the first three quarters of 2013, and $2 billion in net income in the same period.

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EBay

Ebay is an online auction service that enables users to sell their stock or goods and buyers place bids on a broad variety of items. The duration of the auction can last from a few hours to a day to even weeks. During this period of auction, bids from different people are gathered. After the bidding duration, the bidder that has the highest bid from the others is then awarded the item or product. This service started in the United States, but it has expanded its auction service to more than thirty countries globally. The items being bid range

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e-Bay case study

Introduction

eBay is an online seller. There is no need for intermediary in this type of business. It’s an ecommerce seller. There is a direct sale from seller to customer. All the activities of an intermediary are undertaken by the company itself.

Channel of distribution feasible for eBay

Producer consumer
This is because eBay operates on a direct channel of distribution. Here the producer is selling directly to the consumer without the help of intermediaries. Direct channel involves selling face to face, or sales through computers or mails, etc. but there is no involvement of any distributor or any intermediary. There is

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Identification of whether the new product will be the modification of an existing one in your product mix, or the development of a new product.
eBay is an internet company that offers consumer-to-consumer services. Its product is a platform or online auction and shopping website where people buy and sell various types of goods and services from different parts of the world. eBay came into the market in 1995 and since then it has not remodeled into a new product but continues to improve in order to suit the needs of the customers and to match up with the

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Introduction

In Finance, Capital Structure means the way a company finances its assets through debt and equity. For example, if a firm is known to have financed 70% of its assets using debt and 30% using equity then the company is said to have a leverage of 70%. The higher the leverage, the more risky is the company from financial and investment perspective. There are different theories on the capital structure. Modigliani and Miller are known to be the founding fathers of the capital structure modeling in a perfect market. In a perfect market as per Modigliani and Miller it

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Online shopping knows a tremendous development nowadays, with customers turning to their personal computers, laptops, smartphones and other mobile devices to access various shopping websites and purchase their needed items. One of this website, and probably the most successful in the online shopping market, is e-Bay. As a consumer to consumer multinational company, eBay intermediates the offers of the sellers with the demands of the customers all around the world. In this global business environment it is possible for a customer from Eastern Europe to purchase a classical movie package from a buyer from North America, Asia, or any

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Introduction

Marketing strategies have been adopted by several business organizations so that they can capture a wider market and assure customers’ satisfaction. Often, poor marketing techniques have a negative impact on the sales and the general outcome of a business entity. These marketing strategies influence the decisions of the clients. Moreover, the general view of the public towards a company significantly influences customers’ behaviors. EBay being an internally recognized company has competitors in the market that has limits it from retaining all their clients throughout. EBay Company deals with several products targeting all individuals, male and female, household and commercial

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Introduction

Investing can be easier said than done. It is a process that not only involves money, contrary to what most people believe, but also time, effort, energy, skill, knowledge, and usually the most important of all, experience. It is a very tedious task. It has to be made clear that there is a big difference between making investment decisions and making gambling or shotgun decisions. While investment decisions do get affected by luck and other unexpected things such as the collapse of a company or a shifting market trend, it still is unique from gambling decisions. Gambling decisions are

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Question 1

Paul Anders Schwamm assertion that EBay’s move to venture in the Japanese Market was a wrong move to make is justified and well-founded. First of all, it is important to understand that before EBay’s entry into the market, Yahoo was functioning as a monopoly in the sector. This means that Yahoo had been able to become a well-known brand in Japan such that it suited the preferences and tastes in the Japanese Market. It is important to note that the perpetual operations of Yahoo in Japan allowed the companies to best understand the cultural context of its

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CA-Cube targets small businesses and enterprises that need to have a retail outlet. These businesses would actually need to have outlets in malls or shopping centers but they cannot afford these venues. They may not even be allowed to have outlets in these places because of their small size. So, they use non-traditional channels like eBay, Kijiji, weekend markets and trade fairs. These channels could be CA-Cube’s main competition. CA-Cube is a unique concept so it would not have that many other competitors.
Costs and value for money would be the vendors’ most important consideration in choosing a

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