eBay Inc. is a U.S. consumer-to-consumer Internet companies, the eBay.com, buy from online auction and shopping website where people and businesses and sell a wide range of goods and services worldwide in 1995 .

Founded managed, is one of eBay's remarkable success stories of the dotcom bubble, there is now a multi-billion dollar business with offices located in over thirty countries. original eBay from its "set-time" auction format expanded to include also "buy" standard shopping, shopping for UPC, ISBN or other kind of SKU (via Half.com), online classifieds (via eBay or free advertisements); EVENTticket online trading (via StubHub); online payments (via PayPal) and other services.