1. Even NASA has used eBay!

That’s correct! One thing that is great about eBay is that you can find everything and anything. In 2002, NASA had some issues with the discontinuation of replacement parts they needed. So they turned to eBay in hope of finding some second hand parts for their machinery. Due to the stop in production, they used eBay as a tool to search for sellers who might have listed items or parts from the same machines.

1. eBay started out with a yellow interface.

The sometimes blinding and glaring yellow background was the original design for the interface of eBay and it was used up until the site changed to white. Due to a high volume of complaints after they changed to white, eBay respected their customers choice, so they changed it back to the bright yellow. But in a slow passive aggressive manner over time, they faded the yellow color until it eventually was back to being white. This was in hope that customers would not notice the gradual change over time.

1. The British use eBay the most.

That’s right, the Brits use eBay the most across the world. Around 19 million British people use eBay in a month, to sell old and new items. The UK also buys more items a month per capita than any other collective of countries in the world. This is probably because the British love a bit of a bidding war, what’s better than being able to auction from your own home!

4.The first item sold in the UK was a CD.

The CD was by a German rock band called The Scorpions. It was a copy of their single released in 1996 called “You & I“. eBay wasn’t launched in the UK until 1999 which was 4 years after it was set up in the US.

5.In 2008 the first person reached a feedback score of 1 million.

There have been multiple, but the first person to reach a feedback score of 1 million was Jack Sheng. After 8 years of selling, on November 13, 2008, Sheng became the first person to reach this amount of reviews. To recognize his success, eBay even made a special shooting star icon to put alongside his name on eBay. Even better, eBay also named one of their conference rooms after him. He then managed to double the number of reviews to 2 million within another 18 months.

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