eBay (EBAY) 2000年年度报告「NASDAQ」.pdf

1、To Our Stockholders,Partners,Employees and the eBay Community:A Year of AccomplishmentsThe year 2000 was a time of great accomplishments at eBay.In just 12 months,we dramaticallyexpanded our marketplace in several important ways.For starters,we added thousands of new productcategories as well as doz

2、ens of new services and site features.Our marketing and promotions eorts producedgrowing ubiquity for eBay,both on and o the Internet,making more people in more places aware of eBay andbringing them to the site in greater numbers than ever before.We introduced xed-price trading to ourcommunity,reach

3、ing a whole new type of user for the rst time.And we continued to extend the eBaymarketplace to the most productive e-commerce markets on the planet.Perhaps what makes our accomplishments in 2000 even more impressive is that they were achievedduring a period of great turmoil in our industry and in a

4、 manner that signicantly improved our already solidnancial base.Come what may,eBay and its community prospered in 2000,and we are extremely pleased by themomentum we have going into 2001.A Thriving MarketplaceAt eBay we do one thing.We work every day to be the worlds largest and most compelling Inte

5、rnetcommerce platform.To further that goal in 2000,our seasoned management team stayed focused on attractingmore customers,expanding the goods traded on the site,making the user experience easier,safer,more funand exciting,and spreading the eBay marketplace to more places around the world.eBay ended

6、 the year with over 22 million registered users,representing 125 percent growth over the10 million users we had at the end of 1999.To put that in perspective,eBays community is now larger thanthe population of Texas,the second largest state in the Union.And our community is more diverse than ever,fe