ebay

Ebay is a bidding website, it is a worldwide service and some one can buy something from somewhere else on the world e.g. America to Japan. The main purposes of ebay are to buy and sell products from any category of object e.g. cars, furniture or dolls.

Ebay has no fixed audience and it can be used and accessed by anyone of any age or background. Obviously it can’t be used by children because of the paying process but parents or guardians can still use ebay to buy things for their children so obviously the target audience can stretch to adults. 

The auction process has different steps to it, the first step is bidding. When you want to buy an item on ebay there is a minimum bet you have to place and then other people can try and bid higher than you to win the item but there are a lot of cons to this i.e. people will and do wait till the last few seconds of the bid and put their bid down to beat everyone else however, there is usually a ‘buy it now’ option available to all buyers which simply enables you to pay a price and simply buy the item but this is usually a lot higher than the initial bidding price but it does simplify things.

The auction process isn’t really a good process to use and it has many limitations however, it isn’t all bad because everyone has the potential to to buy the items that are being bidded on. But a lot of people can potentially scam others. For example you may send the money to someone across the country but you many never receive your item so you have to be careful when dealing with everyone.