number of eBay auction lots mentioning each payment alternative

Source: Online Banking Report searches of eBay auction listings, 11/99 to 6/00;               nm = not measured;    n/a = not available;    e = OBR estimate

¹Number of eBay auction listings mentioning the payment alternative; many listings contain multiple payment options and many sellers have multiple listings; search strings exclude “.com” except for x.com; the percentage listed is the percent of total lots that includes at least one of the payment options listed.

²Beginning March 31, we began adding the wildcard “*” after the search term, for example, x.com*, for most terms it increased the number of hits by approximately 10%. The exception was X.com, which doubled after adding the wild card.

³As of April 17, eBay stopped reporting on its home page the total number of lots up for auction; so we began estimating the total number; but as of June 30, we derive the total number of lots from the sub-totals provided on the Browse page.

⁴BillPoint is eBay’s in-house system which rolled out to the entire eBay base in April after six months of testing with selected high-volume merchants; on 2/29/00, Wells Fargo purchased a 35% share of BillPoint from eBay; we did not measure BillPoint volume prior to Feb.; beginning on Apr. 17, we began counting BillPoint lots using the special Billpoint search tool on eBay

⁵Beginning March 16, began searching “i-escrow” without hyphen, adding about 15%; currently offering escrow transactions of under $1,000 for free.

⁶In April, Payme.com agreed to merge with Paymybills.com

⁷dotbank was purchased by Yahoo! on March 23 and will be relaunched later this year as Yahoo PayDirect.

⁸Many sellers offer multiple payment methods, so we have estimated the total number of unique lots offering at least one alternative payment method, +/- 10%