For this week’s pop culture topic I’d like to address EBay. The website EBay.com and its subsidiaries have made auctioning over the internet mainstream. Using EBay is relatively simple, anyone can do it. It’s convenient to search listings, whether you’re shopping or just checking prices. I tend to look at something on EBay a few different times a week. With their payment company PayPal, it’s safe and easy to pay for your purchases. You don’t have to worry about giving someone else your credit card information.
EBay recently had a memorable TV commercial claiming that they have “IT”. Whatever it happens to be. They mean that basically if you can’t find something on EBay, you probably won’t have much luck finding it anywhere else either. They make finding that missing piece of china or that toy from childhood a possibility.
EBay sells everything from cars, to real estate, to advertising on human bodies. People are selling things that they never thought possible to do. From the seller’s end, they make it possible to sell just about anything. Collections have been sold on EBay for thousands of dollars; whereas at a garage sale some items would only be sold for a dollar or two. EBay attracts not only the casual buyer, but people looking for something specific. When I’m looking for something, I know that if it’s not on EBay or Amazon.com, I probably won’t find it at all.
Picture taken from Ebay.com on June 1, 2008
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