What is Bay? The simple answer is that it is a global trading platform where nearly anyone can trade practically anything. People can sell and buy all kinds of products and goods. Including cars, movies and DVDs, sporting goods, travel tickets, musical instruments, clothes and shoes- the list goes on and on 

The idea came from Peter Omidyar, who was born in Paris and moved to Washington when he was still a child, At high school, be became very interested in computer programming and after graduating from Tuft University in 1988, He worked for the next few years as a computer engineer. In his free time he started Bay as a kind of hobby, at first offering the service free by word of mouth. By 1996 there was so much traffic on the website that he had to upgrade and he began charging a fee to members. Joined by a friend, Peter Skill. and in 1998 by his capable CEO, Meg Whitman, he has never looked back. . Even in the great. com crashes of the late 1990s,abay has gone from strength to strength ,. It is now one of the ten most visited online shopping websites on the Internet 

eBay sells connections, not goods, putting buyer and seller into contact with each other. All you have to do is lake an e-photo, write a description, fill out a sales form and you are in business: the world is your market place. Of course for each item sold eBay gets a percentage and that is great deal of money. Every day there are more than sixteen million items listed on eBay and eighty percent of the items are sold. QUESTIONS:

Q1:
1. Who came up with the idea for the website?
2. Who was eBay's creator?
3. Whose idea was it to make eBay?
Q2:
1. Did eBay start as a hobby for Peter Omidyar?
2. Did Peter Omidyar start playing around with eBay as a hobby?
3. Did eBay start off as something that Peter Omidyar would do in his free time?
Q3:
1. Where was Peter Omidyar born?
2. What was the birthplace of Peter Omidyar?
3. What city was Peter Omidyar born in?
Q4:
1. Where did Peter Omidyar go from Paris?
2. What stae did Peter Omidyar move to?
3. Where did Peter Omidyar leave his hometown for?
Q5:
1. What did Peter Omidyar take an interest in as a high schooler?
2. During his high school years, what did Peter Omidyar become interested in?
3. What was a passion of Peter Omidyar's during high school?
Q6:
1. What university did Peter Omidyar graduate from?
2. What college did Peter Omidyar attend?
3. Where does Peter Omidyar have a university degree from?
Q7:
1. Did Ebay employ Meg Whitman?
2. Was eBay the place of employment for Meg Whitman?
3. Was Meg Whitman employed by eBay?
Q8:
1. What was Meg Whitman's job title at eBay?
2. What did Meg Whitman do at eBay?
3. How was Meg Whitman employed at eBay?
Q9:
1. How can goods be exchanged on eBay?
2. What can one purchase and put up for sale on eBay?
3. What is the possible way to exchange goods on eBay?
Q10:
1. At what point did the .com crash come about?
2. When was the moment of the .com crash?
3. When did .com companies rapidly loose value?
Q11:
1. Did eBay make it through the .com crash?
2. Did ebay survive the .com crash?
3. Did eBay come out of the .com crash alive?
Q12:
1. Where does ebay rank among most visited sites?
2. What is eBay's rank amongst frequently viewed sites?
3. Where does eBay rank within online shopping sites?
Q13:
1. Do a percentage of sales done on eBay go to the company?
2. Does eBay receive a portion of sales conducted on the website?
3. Do part of eBay sales go to the company?
Q14:
1. What is the number of items listed per day on eBay?
2. How many things appear on eBay per day?
3. What is the daily number of items that are listed on eBay?
Q15:
1. When did Peter Omidyar get his college diploma?
2. In what year did Peter Omidyar graduate from Tufts?
3. What was the year of Peter Omidyar's college graduation?
