Activity 12 Ebay

Ebay is a widley used online auction website and being famous for being a online market place where anybody can access. Ebays major purpose is to allow people to be able to auction off there products to potential customers which is not hard when ebay allows your prouct to be viewed by millions of people.
Ebays target audience is the whole internet de to them being a online auction website they aim for everyone so products can be sold allwowing ebay to remain online. The auction process works in 5 steps

• Ebay user wants to sell old item, he/she creates a auction listing on the old product
• During the auction hundreds of potential buyers look at the produt and some place a bid
• Buyers places higher bids until maximum is reached and the winner recieves a confirmation email and then options on how to pay the item holder
• Cstomer can pay directly, paypal or other
• Old item is delivered to customer

ebay fulfils it purpose of allowing online members to sell there products online or buy desired items and recieve over the internet easily.Ebay allows people to buy and sell items in there own homes which saves time and save you of the hassel of the product of going to an auction and wait for your product to come up and buying it and taking it home. Ebay has been prone to many fraud auctions where sellers just accept the money and deliever nothing or false items and also many people have been frauded due to false advertisement or not reading into seller feedback