Hi and thanks for your question,
eBay, created in 1995, is the world's largest and most famous online
auction site with over 49 million registered users and over 2500
employees.
Apparently the first item ever sold on eBay was 'a Pez dispenser', I
believe this is true but I have only found the information as an
answer to a quiz.
Many facts about the numbers of items for sale and sold on eBay can be
found at the following website:
http://www.a1auctions.com/ebayfacts.htm
I have not found the top ten, but the top five most expensive items
ever sold on ebay are:
1. Gulfstream II jet: $4.9 million
2. 1909 Honus Wagner baseball card: $1.65 million
3. Diamond Lake Resort, western Kentucky: $1.2 million
4. Shoeless Joe Jackson's "Black Betsy" baseball bat: $577,610
5. Round of golf with Tiger Woods: $425,000
This was found in the article 'Making the most of eBay'
http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,40329%7C2,FF.html
Some of the more unusual items to be put on ebay include:
Aug. 26, 1999: A human kidney is offered on eBay. Before the auction
is taken down, bids reach $5.7 million. All sorts of human body parts
have been put up for auction - and taken down by eBay, which prohibits
such sales - including livers and sperm.
Feb. 8, 2001: Adam Burtle of Seattle sells his soul on eBay for $400.
EBay has a policy of not allowing souls to be sold, but Burtle's offer
was undetected until after bidding closed. Burtle is suspended from
the site.
May 25, 2001: Levi's goes shopping on eBay and picks up a pair of its
own jeans - made in the 1880s - for $46,532.
June 23, 2001: Bob Dylan's boyhood home in Duluth, Minn., sells on
eBay for $94,600. Other properties such as a Santa Cruz, Calif.,
apartment complex and a 100-year-old Kentucky jail have been offered
in the past couple of years.
Taken from 'A Brief History of eBay'
http://www.thestandard.com/article/0,1902,28323,00.html
One of the largest items ever sold was a World War II submarine sold
by a small town in New England that decided it did not need the
historical relic anymore.
(http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/4286.html).
The following site: http://www.whattheheck.com/ebay/ links to some of
the weirdest items ever found for sale on eBay. Another similar
website http://www.disturbingauctions.com/ looks at odd items for sale
on various online auctions.
Search Strategy:
I used the following search terms in Google to answer your question:
ebay facts: ://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=ebay+facts&btnG=Google+Search
ebay history: ://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=ebay+history
You can also find all of eBay's press releases here:
http://pages.ebay.com/community/aboutebay/releases/index.html
I hope this helps answer your question, please advise if you need any
further clarification.
Kind regards,
Ali |
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