posted on April 4, 2001 05:56:51 AM
Interesting stats, plus a link and password to hear Meg's entire address to Goldman-Sachs last night. Pack a lunch, it's 45 minutes.
posted on April 4, 2001 06:41:35 AM
Here are the numbers (reordered in declining order):
$877m in collectibles
$836m photography equipment and electronics
$682m computers
$679m in autos
$590m in books/movies/music
$258m in antiques and arts
$198m in coins/stamp
I think it is interesting that collectibles, generally associated with smaller sellers, heads the list by dollar value.
posted on April 4, 2001 06:55:10 AM
That's true corrdogg, but lets look at it this way:
Take collectibles, antiques & art, coins & stamps and (arbitrarily) $200m from books movies and music - add them together to get approximately $1.5 billion. Divide that by the Total GMS and it comes to about 37% of the sales on eBay. What Meg is saying is that the fastest growing areas are practicals and automotive. (the figures I quoted were 2001 Q4)
It's pretty evident where eBay would like to focus their attention: Areas that already have 63% of the GMS on eBay and are growing quickly.
