EBay

reputation that eBay currently got. The biggest strength that eBay got is its brand name. Brand name Ebay was one of the biggest online marketplaces in the world. Ebay was established by Pierre Omidyar in 1995. The reputation of the company is well known. This is be proven by the fact that there have over 100 million of buyer and seller using eBay to sell and purchase things to each others. Therefore, it is common to hear that someone is “eBaying” and “eBayer”. Today, eBay had become a…

its own software that would allow its entire system from 15 nationalities and locales, ranging from Poland to France, to be simultaneously refreshed. In addition, at the time, PayPal had just become a partner with eBay. Consequently, since PayPal became the primary payment system for eBay, and experienced a dramatic increase in the use of its services. Accordingly, the company was forced to go global to support the needs of all its customers. Unfortunately, early on the company realized that it…

Company A: Alibaba Alibaba is the world's biggest B2B website which is a successful online trading platform. It provides information on the global business opportunities and merchant community. All of its supply and demand information automatically log in by the seller and the buyer. It is the form of free and opens on the platform looking for trading partners between their members and a facilitator business. It can be said that there is not only a free trade market with no geographical and time…

EBay is the largest and most popular marketplace in the cyber world, allowing members to buy and sell almost anything. Since the company was founded in 1995, eBay has long led through innovation and reinvestments of the concept of the auctions, applying technology to help and make easier the global trade. Nowadays, eBay is more than an auction site. The company has evolved into a global business and payments platform, enabling $205 billion in commerce volume in 2013. The company has three…

people can use it as a way to buy, sell, and trade pieces of their culture. Ebay and other trading and bidding sites make it easy to find artifacts from around the world. However, this also makes it easier for people to sell artifacts illegally, or sell fake ones. The list of Egyptian Antiquities on Ebay is pages and pages long, with many artifacts that could be fake, illegally taken from their place of origin, or stolen. Ebay has tried to maintain a legal standard for the artifacts it sells,…

Consider eBay as a company along the value chain. What is their value add within the value chain to a consumer? What about their affiliates? eBay offers their customers a platform to sell and buy goods. They are a, “. . . leading global provider of commerce technologies, order management, fulfilment, customer care, and marketing solutions. . .” (Supply Chain Digital, 2015). eBay is a retail service provider that helps facilitate the process between the sellers and buyers of a marketed good…

almost anything on eBay. Such ways help eBay keep its costs low as compared to others. Furthermore, another eBay’s competitive advantages is its entrepreneurial orientation. This involves practices that a firm implements to help identify and launch its corporate ventures (Dess et al., 2014, chapter 12). eBay’s entrepreneurial orientation can be seen from its five dimensions, such as autonomy, innovativeness, proactiveness, competitive aggressiveness, and risk taking. In eBay’s case, eBay has…

obvious competitive advantages compared to traditional business with a shorter cycle period of e-procurement, adequate fulfillments and distribution supporting, diversify payment ways and efficient supply chain management. Also with comparison of Amazon, eBay and Alibaba’s strategies in supply and distribution chains, it is clear to know why they enable to remain growth in both domestic and international market in the future. Supply chain plays an important role whatever the industry is. In…

Before we delve into the analysis of the eBay and PayPal demerger we first take a look at the different types of Mergers and in which category did eBay and PayPal merger fall into. We will also look into as to what was the acquisition motive, what led to the demerger and whether the synergies were attained or not. Merger is an amalgamation of 2 companies such that one company retains its corporate existence and the other one loses it corporate existence. The survivor company inherits the…

eBay’s strategic plans will not be affected by the split of PayPal PayPal Holdings Inc walked out from their parent company eBay a year before along with their IPO after surpassing the valuation in the ecommerce industry. The online marketplace had a casualty dominance of the Amazon, but of late the company has seen an improvement in their valuations after the separation of PayPal. PayPal is the key component and is one of the strongest participants in the online marketplace and one of the key…