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# EBay

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The title of this article is wrong due to some limitations. The right title is eBay.

eBay is a website. It is a place for online auctions. Anybody can sell nearly anything they want here there. You can buy many things there as well.

You have to send what you sell yourself, usually using mail. You can transfer the money in any way you want. A lot of people use PayPal to transfer the money. PayPal is owned by the same people as eBay.

## [edit] History

It was started in 1995 by Pierre Omidyar. It was first called Auctionweb. The name 'eBay' came later when he tried to register a domain name for his planned name EchoBay. It was already taken and so he shortened the name to eBay.

## [edit] Statistics

Millions of items are bought on eBay every day. It is quite cheap to list an item on eBay. Many people look at others items because they are interested in it.

## [edit] External links

- eBay site

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