[ebay] World's largest online auction website
 Online auction leader
 Can collect data on buyers and sellers that register with the company
• No retailer has more products than eBay
• Virtually no direct competition in the online auction space
• Platform tools: Customer relationship management, connecting sellers with buyers.
• Stronghold of online payment through Paypal
• Brand / Market Leadership
• Business Model
• Intellectual property
• Double-digit growth
• Innovative developments

 
 
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• Advertising revenues
• Technological development
• Increased expectations
• Shipping
• Service only available online
• Capabilities more easily replicated as technologies become more readily available and cheaper to implement.

 

• Further expansion into international markets
• Branch out into other online services
• Make an Offer, which gives buyers the power to offer a price to the seller for a product
• Skype divestment
   

 
 

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 [*] Google Checkout expanding into core eBay products (Paypal)
 [*] Other e-commerce sites (Amazon, specialty retailers)
 [*] Online security - a online security scandal could be disastrous to the company
 [*] Competition
 [*] Seasonality
 [*] Interest and foreign currency exchange rates
 [*] Competition from new auction websites such as ebid.com, madbid.com. New competition also arising in the 'hot food' market with sites such as Bid2eat.co.uk
 [*] Scammers and phishers