eBay Australia turns 18 this month and to mark their coming of age they released some new features and 18 fun facts about how they have changed the retail landscape.
Since launching in 1999, they have helped almost 3,000 Australians become self-made millionaires from using eBay is a sales platform.
Also, to celebrate its birthday, eBay AU will launch an ‘image search’ feature that allows customers to use photos to search by uploading them in the search bar, thereby making it easier for the people to search on the specific item. They also revealed that this functionality will be available in android and iOS app next year.
Another breakthrough feature from eBay is the ‘Guaranteed Delivery’ wherein it allows customers to filter listings by the quickness of their delivery.
Growing Online Retail Industry
Did you know? Two billion hours have been spent on eBay in the past 18 years. And in that time, more than 228,000 years’ worth of browsing time has been spent on the site – 70 percent of this were from mobile browsing visitors.
About 3000 Australians have become self-made millionaires. One of them was Edisons’ owner, David Mills.
David Mills’ company which sells machinery and hardware is worth about $100 million. It started with just an idea of selling a pole chainsaw. He imported a shipment of tools and sold them online. Now, the company is thriving and has a warehouse of its own full of goods.
eBay Australia has around 40,000 stores, 60 million items and 90 percent of it are brand new.
