eBay Inc. is an e-commerce platform with headquarters in San Jose, California. The company specializes in consumer-to-consumer as well as business-to-consumer sales through its site - allowing anyone to list their products and run auctions in order to fetch the best price, while presenting opportunities for deals for customers. The company has evolved from this original concept to additionally offer a "Buy It Now" option for a fixed price. eBay employs 14,100 professionals and reported a revenue of $9.567 billion USD for 2017.
