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eBay Inc. eBay Inc. ( / ˈiːbeɪ / EE-bay, often stylized as ebay) is an American multinational e-commerce company based in San Jose, California, that brokers customer to customer and retail sales through online marketplaces in 190 markets worldwide. Sales occur either via online auctions or "buy it now" instant sales, and the company charges ...
Gumtree.com, known as Gumtree, is a British-based online classified advertisement and community website based at Hotham House, Richmond, London. Classified ads are either free or paid for depending on the product category and the geographical market. As of November 2010, it was the UK's largest website for local community classifieds and was ...
The first online auction site was Onsale.com, founded by Jerry Kaplan in May 1995. Onsale's business model had the company act as the seller. In September 1995, eBay was founded by French-Iranian computer scientist Pierre Omidyar using a different approach to online auctions by facilitating person-to-person transactions. This was a popular ...
Steve Oliver, Walter Gleeson. Services. Online shopping. Number of employees. 1,000 (December 2019) Website. musicmagpie .co .uk. musicMagpie is a British owned online retailer buying and selling refurbished electronics and second-hand computer games, consoles, books, films and music. [1]
Ultra HD Blu-rays. Video games. Website. webuy .com. C.E.X. Limited, trading as CeX ( / sɛks / ), is a British retailer predominately dealing in pre-owned video games, DVDs, Blu-rays and consumer electronics, established in 1992 in London as the Computer Exchange. The retailer later renamed itself as the Complete Entertainment Exchange.
World of Books Limited, trading as Wob, [a] is a second-hand book retailer, reported to be the United Kingdom's largest. [1] The company buys unsold inventory of used books mostly from UK charity shops. The books are resold either to consumers through Wob's website and various online sites, or wholesale to recyclers, [2] [3] with about 80% of ...
Etsy, Inc. Etsy, Inc. is an American e-commerce company focused on handmade or vintage items and craft supplies. These items fall under a wide range of categories, including jewelry, bags, clothing, home décor, religious items and furniture, toys, art, as well as craft supplies and tools. Items described as vintage must be at least 20 years ...
75 m (246 ft) Location. British Museum, London. The Elgin Marbles ( / ˈɛlɡɪn /) [1] are a collection of Ancient Greek sculptures from the Parthenon and other structures from the Acropolis of Athens, removed from Ottoman Greece and shipped to Britain by agents of Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, and now held in the British Museum in London.