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Do Business Wordwide with eBay

8 October 2009 251 views One Comment

Making money online in the past require you to have your own website and some marketing savvy.  Today, there is eBay!

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Every day hundreds of millions of people shop on eBay.    In fact, eBay has recently announced that it currently has 84 million active users worldwide.   An eBay business is easy to start and does not take a lot of money to get up and running.   You can immediately start by selling (almost) ANYTHING!

eBay is visible in MANY countries.  In addition to its original U.S. website, it has established localized websites in many other countries, including the following:

Country/region  ↓ Website  ↓ Language  ↓ Launch date  ↓
Argentina http://www.mercadolibre.com.ar/ Spanish March 1999[13]
Australia http://www.ebay.com.au/ English October 1999[14]
Austria http://www.ebay.at/ German December 18, 2000[15]
Belgium http://www.ebay.be/ DutchFrench ?
Canada http://www.ebay.ca/ EnglishFrench April 2000[16]
China (now defunct) http://www.ebay.com.cn (site now redirects to eachnet.com) Simplified Chinese July 11, 2003
France http://www.ebay.fr/ French October 5, 2000[17][18]
Germany http://www.ebay.de/ German June 1999
Hong Kong http://www.ebay.com.hk/ EnglishTraditional Chinese December 21, 2003[19]
India http://www.ebay.in/ English March 25, 2005
Indonesia http://id.ebay.com/ Bahasa IndonesiaEnglish ?
Ireland http://www.ebay.ie/ English March 29, 2001[20]
Israel http://www.ebay.co.il/ English ?
Italy http://www.ebay.it/ Italian January 15, 2001[21]
Japan http://www.sekaimon.com/ (Joint venture with Yahoo! Japan) Japanese December 4, 2007
Malaysia http://www.ebay.com.my/ English December 1, 2004[22]
Mexico http://ebay.com.mx/ Spanish ?
Netherlands http://www.ebay.nl/ Dutch ?
New Zealand http://www.ebay.co.nz English March 29, 2001[20]
Philippines http://www.ebay.ph/ English November 16, 2004[23]
Poland http://www.ebay.pl/ Polish April 22, 2005[24]
Singapore http://www.ebay.com.sg/ English October 24, 2001[25]
South Africa http://www.ebay.co.za/ English ?
Spain http://www.ebay.es/ Spanish January 8, 2002[26]
Sweden http://www.tradera.com/ Swedish 2005
Switzerland http://www.ebay.ch/ German March 29, 2001[20]
Taiwan http://ruten.com.tw (joint venture with PCHome[27] Traditional Chinese ?
Thailand http://www.ebay.co.th Thai ?
Turkey http://www.gittigidiyor.com/ Turkish May 3, 2007
United Kingdom http://www.ebay.co.uk/ English October 1999[28]
United States http://www.ebay.com/ English September 2, 1995
Vietnam http://www.ebay.vn/ VietnameseEnglish June 27, 2007[29]

So guys, are you ready to jump in the bandwagon? Or are you going to continuously do business the old ways?

One Comment »

  • Ponytail said:

    Good informasion. I never used ebay. Will cehck the website to learn more.

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