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2. Online auction - Wikipedia

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   The first online auction site was Onsale.com, founded by Jerry Kaplan in May 1995. [10] Onsale's business model had the company act as the seller. [9] In September 1995, eBay was founded by French-Iranian computer scientist Pierre Omidyar using a different approach to online auctions by facilitating person-to-person transactions. This was a ...

3. eBay - Wikipedia

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   eBay Inc. (/ ˈiːbeɪ / EE-bay, often stylized as ebay or Ebay) is an American multinational e-commerce company based in San Jose, California, that allows users to buy or view items via retail sales through online marketplaces and websites in 190 markets worldwide. Sales occur either via online auctions or "buy it now" instant sales, and the ...

4. Auction sniping - Wikipedia

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   e. Auction sniping (also called bid sniping) is the practice, in a timed online auction, of placing a bid likely to exceed the current highest bid (which may be hidden) as late as possible—usually seconds before the end of the auction—giving other bidders no time to outbid the sniper. This can be done either manually or by software on the ...

5. List of acquisitions by eBay - Wikipedia

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   As of September 2014, eBay has acquired over 40 companies, the most expensive of which was the purchase of Skype, a Voice over Internet Protocol company, for US$ 2.6 billion in cash plus up to an additional US$1.5 billion if certain performance goals were met. [2] The majority of companies acquired by eBay are based in the United States.

6. Yahoo Auctions - Wikipedia

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   Yahoo! Auctions is a service set up by the online search giant Yahoo! in 1998 to compete against eBay. [2] There are currently only two localizations of the service active in Taiwan and Japan; Yahoo! has discontinued the service in the United States, Canada, Singapore, Hong Kong, United Kingdom and Ireland. The US and Canada section of the site ...

7. Auction (website) - Wikipedia

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   Founded. April 1998; 26 years ago (April 1998) South Korea. Headquarters. South Korea. Parent. Gmarket Global [1] Auction Co. is an online auction company based in South Korea. It was acquired by eBay on January 8, 2001.