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Ebay
Ebay's major pupose is for selling products online. It has a wide range of products sold on this site and will almost certainly have whatever you are thinkinig of buying.Both brand new or second hand products are sold on this site. The products sold online on this website belong to people who created Ebay accounts and allows members of the public to sell any unwanted ites they have or for small businesses to make sales. It is also a place for people to buy things at chaep prices.
The target audiane for Ebay is that there is no target audiance (from above 16 as thats when you can create an account) as nearly every product is sold on the site so the audiance is for whoever wants to buy a product.
The auction process works so that you can choose to make a bid on a item or watch the item to see how much people are bidding. The item is on the auction for a certain amount of time depending on how long the seller wants the item on auction. There is also an option to buy now if you cant wait through the whole auction process. Then at the very end in the last few seconds, when the clock reaches zero the person with the highest bid gets the item.
Benefits:

• You can buy products at cheap price
• Its online and shipped so you dont have to go through the stress of normal shops
• It sells stuff that normal shops dont
• Wide variety of products
• You can sell unwanted items easily
• Give feedback on purchased items

Limitations:

• Items can sometimes be damaged
• Buy faulty goods
• Get scammed as to what you are buying
• Items could never arrive
• The auction be stressful and even possibly addictive

Ebay is a successful shopping method as it has a wide range of products on sale. Most of these products are also very cheap to buy. The auction aspect of Ebay attracts new customers and keeps old customers as it is a exciting way of buying items. The shopping method is also successful as it will never run out of products to sell because it is the general public selling the products and because of this the site will create a never ending source of products in the site.