eBay is an online auction store providing sell and buy opportunities to people on their desired prices. This is an American company, eBay Inc. that also runs some other big companies like PayPal, Skype and StubHub. Along with the main website running for us people, eBay operates its services in other countries with 30 localized websites.                             

eBay was found in 19995 by French-born Iranian computer programmer Pierre Omidyar. It was started in San Jose, California and in beginning was a tribute to the Ebola virus as a part of his website. Company changed its name form auctionweb to eBay in 1997 when they started a business with Electronic Travel Auction to sell plane tickets through SmartMarket Technology. Company started its services publicly in September 1998 and soon both Omidyar and Skoll became billionaires.

Ebay.com recorded 902 million visitors in last year which is almost three times more than the visitors of walmart. Customer support on eBay has been phenomenal all the time. This awesome support includes library of self-help resources and e-mail contact forms. Along with these opportunities people can have instant contact with customer support representative. Phone support is not available to all customers but it is limited sellers with rank “Bronze PowerSeller”. Overall help desk by eBay is appreciable. Finally all this was a start and story up till now and taking a view of this all I can say eBay is best online auction web store!