| By Jim Bruene on July 3, 2000 9:34 AM | Comments (0) |
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%
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