From Pez dispensers to Navajo blankets.

A benchmark of online business success, eBay provides a safe marketplace for people who share interests in everything from Pez dispensers to Navajo blankets. It’s a vigorous, person-to-person trading community operated by people who care deeply about the quality and integrity of the sales on their site. Buyers and sellers alike appreciate the sense of respect and ownership they get from doing business on eBay. Members consider it “their” eBay. The company was founded in 1995 by Pierre Omidyar, a self-described computer geek who wrote the original program by piecing together freeware he found on the Internet and running the site from his home. The company went public in 1998 (NASDAQ: EBAY) and is now the world’s largest place to buy and sell, having revolutionized the very concept of “auction.” With some 84 million users worldwide, eBay has changed the face of Internet commerce.