number of eBay auction lots mentioning each payment alternative

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

No activity on, Pay2Card.com, Yapstone, ePreview, BuyAssured.com, InternetClearing.com, Remit.com, and c2it.com (on 11/25/00, C2it was mentioned in 237 auction listings)

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 percentage 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*, increasing the number of hits by approximately 10%. ³Prior to April 17, we obtained total eBay listings from the totals posted on its home page; beginning June 30, we derive the total from the category listings 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, we began searching “i-escrow” with and without the hyphen, adding about 15% to its hit count. ⁶In April, Payme.com agreed to merge with Paymybills.com. ⁷The name was changed from dotbank to PayDirect on searches beginning Aug. 31; dotbank was purchased by Yahoo! on March 23 and relaunched 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%. ⁹Source: PCData Online, www.pcdataonline.com , 8/00; unique users as measured by PC Data’s 100,000+ member panel. ¹⁰Beginning 7/31/00 also searched on Pay Pal (with a space between); this increased total hits by approximately 5%. ¹¹Beginning 9/30/00 we dropped the wildcard (*) off X.com searches, because it primarily finds “X.com’s PayPal” which are already included in the PayPal total.