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	eBay Marketplace Fast Facts

Fast Facts
As of March 31, 2008

• Founded in September of 1995, eBay.com is a global online marketplace where practically anyone can trade practically anything.
  
  
• eBay Inc. has a global presence in 39 markets, including the U.S.
  
  
• Marketplaces has approximately 83.9 million active users worldwide.
  
  
• Marketplaces net revenues totaled a record $1.48 billion in Q1-08, representing a year-over-year growth rate of 19 percent. With 45 percent from US operations and 55 percent from our International business.
  
  
• In Q1-08, gross merchandise volume (GMV), the total value of all successfully closed items on eBay Inc.'s trading platforms, was $16.0 billion. (Total GMV for the full year 2007 was more than $59 billion.)
  
  
• eBay.com users worldwide trade $2,040 worth of goods on the site every second.
  
  
• There were 647 million new listings added to eBay.com worldwide in Q1-08. At any given time, there are approximately 115.3 million listings worldwide, and approximately 6.9 million listings are added per day. eBay users trade in more than 50,000 categories.
  
  
• Based on Q1-08 GMV, the following eBay.com categories delivered $1 billion or more in worldwide annualized GMV: eBay Motors at $18.0 billion; Consumer Electronics at $5.8 billion; Computers at $4.2 billion; Clothing & Accessories at $5.3 billion; Home & Garden at $4.2 billion; Collectibles at $2.8 billion; Books/Music/Movies at $3.5 billion; Sports at $2.9 billion; Business & Industrial at $2.6 billion: Toys at $2.4 billion; Jewelry & Watches at $2.3 billion; Cameras & Photo at $1.7 billion; Antiques & Art at $1.5 billion; Coins & Stamps at $1.4 billion and Tickets & Travel at $1.5 billion.
  
  
• While eBay.com is well-known for its auction format, users can also buy and sell in fixed-price formats, which accounted for 42 percent of total GMV during Q1-08.
  
  
• At the end of Q1-08, eBay.com hosted approximately 547,000 stores worldwide, with approximately 46 percent of stores hosted on eBay's international sites.
  
  
• eBay members worldwide have left more than 7 billion feedback comments for one another regarding their eBay transactions.
  
  
• The most expensive item sold on eBay to date is a private business jet for $4.9 million.