eBay

eBay
The purpose of the site is to auction off anything other sellers want to. Sellers are anyone with an eBay account, they can sell anything they want new or old. Also shops now tend to sell there items on eBay now. Anyone can be a buyer on eBay as long as they have an account.
The website meets its objective very well, its objective is too make money buy letting users buy and sell things on their website which they are doing very well. The benefits of using this service is that many items will be a lot cheaper than they would be in shops or other Internet sites. Also with eBay you can find most things you want to buy rather than having to go to other shops to buy multiple items. The disadvantages are that the sellers may not be trustworthy so items may not arrive, some buyers or sellers can be using a fake account or hacked into someone else's account so internet security is a problem on eBay. It is so successful as a shopping model because it is charging people to use its internet site to advertise and sell their products, it is also so successful because the site is world wide their is an eBay site for almost every country.