They are selling to select areas and towns, just like a store located there, instead of trying to sell everywhere. This keeps their operating costs low, and because of this, they can expand to other markets as their profits increase - just as they would with traditional stores (Lee, 2003)
Since this is becoming a trend, online sellers such as eBay and Amazon are capitalizing on it and branching out into more markets as they realize that people are listing more and more things. The main reason that eBay does so well is because it helps to make buying things very convenient, similar to large retailers that have 'superstores' which provide many goods and services in one place (Hof, 2003)
E-commerce can be considered very similar yet better in some ways because it allows many events to occur much more rapidly and helps avoid inventory issues that can be corrected with a just-in-time system. It is likely that many e-commerce businesses have their computers linked to their inventory so they will know exactly how much to order, and when, if they are big businesses (Wollan, n
Therefore, the baby eBay, like other methods used in the process of getting a baby, would fail to resolve the problems in the system. Other major arguments have a moral nature, but these could be counter-argued with the fact that other strategies, such as the traditional adoption or the modern surrogacy, have all raised ethical issues, which remain unsolved up to these days (Colen, 1987) Conclusions The arguments both in favor and against a baby eBay are both strong, with severe implications upon the contemporaneous society
But regardless of all benefits involved, there remains the question of morality and the sanctity of family and innocent little creatures. "How far are we willing to take our insistence on the dominance of the model of contract in social relationships? In a secular society, which is nevertheless riddled with sentimental religiosity, are there still some areas that we consider sacred and off-limits to the rules of contract?" (Fox, 1993) Costs First of all, there is a legal implication
S., Where Have all the Babies Gone?, Future Tool Kit The enormous disproportion between supply and demand in the adoption marketplace, highly reminiscent of that found for organ transplantation, has led to increased pressure for commercialization and entrepreneurism" (Hirschman, 1991)
On the other hand, the demand continues to increase. In 1985, two million couples were waiting to adopt and the babies were only sufficient for 22,000 couples (Johnson, 1986)
In order to achieve their desired baby, couples often engage in illegal operations, such as the buying of babies on the black market. "The demand is so high that child traffickers unable to find enough willing parties have resorted to snatching youngsters off the streets - and 70,000 disappear each year" (Joseph, 2007)
S. For instance, one out of six couples are infertile (Siebel, 1988)
For example, "type in an esoteric query like 'Led Zeppelin motocross bike' or 'antique kitty litter' and you'll find at least one result on eBay. Even an implicitly illegal query for 'stolen cars' calls up results" (Olsen, 2006)
, 2007). Pierre Omidyar's vision, eBay's founder, is to "create an efficient, honest market where everyone has to play by the same rules" (Schopen, 2003)
eBay has successfully developed a competitive environment for online trading to occur in; competition occurs between buyers and merchants (eBay, 2003). Traditional style retailers are fast jumping on the e-commerce bandwagon, as corporations such as Sears continually add more and more of their product line to the world's online marketplace, with great success (Hill, 2004)
Why is eBay having difficulty expanding in Asia? What should eBay do? The foundation of the eBay business model is the combination of unique and differentiation products offered by a community of users who trust each other and share a common perception of fair pricing and value. The success or failure of e-commerce across national and cultural boundaries is most influenced by the apparent and earned trust between community participants where risk is assumed to be evenly distributed between buyer, selling and intermediary (McCole, Ramsey, Williams, 2010)
"eBay had better relationships with its sellers earlier this decade, when its auction system was still catching on with consumers and fueled torrid growth. During the tech-bust year of 2001, eBay's revenue grew 74% and its stock more than doubled, as investors embraced its no-inventory, no-warehouse model" (Fowler 2009, p
This therefore meant that the eBay computers were set up purely to serve the "human" customers but not the automated 'robots' and 'spiders' from sites like Bidder's Edge which does so for financial gains. It is worth noting that the original agreement between eBay and Bidder's Edge stated that the latter prohibited from employing any form of intelligent search agents such as "robots" and "spiders" while accessing its information some of which were not to be displayed on the public domain (Boonk et al
Bidder's Edge therefore had no right at all to use the eBay computer resources since in actual sense they deteriorated the level of service delivery to eBay's customers as a result of heavy bandwidth consumption (slows the eBay computer services).This indeed can be succinctly be considered as a case of cyber trespass (Kearney,2005) Conclusion What we learn from this case is that certain level of "spidering" or rather deep web searching can be considered a trespass
December, 1999 saw eBay file a lawsuit against Bidder's Edge in San Jose, California's Federal District law courts. This lawsuit saw Bidder's edge being charged with trespass on the eBay website through as process that involved the compilation of auction data without seeking prior and due permission from eBay (Masterson,2000)
This prompted eBay to attempt to block Bidder's edge aggregation activities through the blocking of its Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Bidder's edge however came up with other technology (use of proxy servers) in order to evade their IP address block by the eBay computers (Pasulka,2000)
This new accounting disclosure required that companies report what earnings would have been had they been in compliance with fair value stock option expensing. Upon disclosing this old material in a new format, it was gauged that in 2000, eBay reported a "net profit of $48 million," when in reality it should have "reported a loss of almost $91 million" (Bradshaw, 2005, p
ebay financial reporting eBay Corporation: Financial Reporting The current market trend in the American business world shows that many businesses are making the switch to the fair market value of accounting for employee stock options. The Journal of Accounting Research defines fair market accounting as accounting for the fair value, or price, of an asset or liability based on the current market price of that asset or liability, or for similar assets and liabilities, or based on another objectively assessed "fair" value (Riedl and Serafeim, 2011, p