About Ebay

(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay)

eBay Inc., (stylized as ebay), is an American multinational corporation and e-commerce company, providing consumer-to-consumer & business-to-consumer sales services via Internet. It is headquartered in San Jose, California, United States. eBay was founded by Pierre Omidyar in 1995, and became a notable success story of the dot-com bubble; it is a multi-billion dollar business with operations localized in over thirty countries.^[5][6]
The company manages eBay.com, an online auction and shopping website in which people and businesses buy and sell a broad variety of goods and services worldwide. In addition to its auction-style sales, the website has since expanded to include "Buy It Now" shopping; shopping by UPC, ISBN, or other kind of SKU (via Half.com); online classified advertisements (via Kijiji or eBay Classifieds); online event ticket trading (via StubHub); online money transfers (via PayPal)^[7] and other services. In the Brand Trust Report 2012, a study conducted by Trust Research Advisory, a brand analytics company, eBay was ranked 209th among India's most trusted brands and subsequently, according to the Brand Trust Report 2013, eBay was ranked 286th among India's most trusted brands. In 2014 however, eBay was ranked 853rd among India's most trusted brands according to the Brand Trust Report 2014.^[8]
It is not a free website, rather it charges users an invoice seller fee on the basis of if they have sold or listed any items.^[9]