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4 All three items converge in a chute and then inside a box
All of the crates arrive at a central point where bar codes are matched with order numbers to determine who gets what. Your three items end up in a 3-ft.-wide chute--one of several thousand--and are placed into a cardboard box with a new bar code that...
For an industry that's all of four years old, the dollar amounts are staggering: $4.5 billion in sales this year, and an estimated $15.5 billion by 2001. eBay is the dominant player in the online-auction world, with 7.7 million registered users bidding on some 3 million items. But...
Some of the impact will be more profound. Online auctions may destabilize the notion of a fixed price, leading buyers and sellers in all kinds of transactions to negotiate more over what items should cost. And they are likely to further erode the economic barriers between nations, speeding the way...
It all began with Pez and a man named Pierre Omidyar, now 32. In the summer of 1995 Omidyar's fiance (now wife) Pam, who collected Pez dispensers, was bemoaning how hard it was to find other people to trade with in the San Francisco Bay Area. Omidyar was already...