According to new numbers released by eBay, shoppers purchased 1.5 million eBay items through either the eBay mobile website or the company’s iPhone application during this holiday season. The number represents three times the amount eBay sold during the same period last year. An impressive number by any standard of measurement.
The free eBay iPhone app which originally launched on July, 2007 has been downloaded close to 6 million times by users anxious to part with their goods or hard earned cash depending on which side of the auction process their on. Some big transactions concluded via mobile phones, include a $75,000 purchase of a 1966 Chevrolet Corvette, a boat for $19,000, and a Steinway grand piano for $10,000 dollars.
"I use my eBay iPhone app constantly," said eBay gold Power Seller Michael Long. "It's way quicker than logging into eBay on Safari. I check the status of what I'm selling several times a day through the app."
Mr. Long told the iPhone Savior that he has easily sold close $200,000 in vintage European sports cars and parts through eBay for his Fast Cars of California business in 2009. Michael admitted that he relies heavily on his iPhone app connection to eBay on a daily basis.
At the end of November, eBay added another free app eBay Deals [iTunes Link] to their iPhone arsenal. eBay Deals is designed to deliver a steady stream of the best deals or big demand items on the site from across hundreds of millions of listings direct to users via iPhone.
Overall, eBay reports that mobile transactions have quickly added up to half a billion dollars in 2009. Their mobile site gets some 750,000 unique visits per day.
[via Venturebeat]
I am looking to add a credit card facility to my iphone application - so, consumers can purchase my physical goods via their iphone.
Unfortunately hitting some major hiccups and being denied by apple - does anyone know how to build this feature into an application, and then get it passed apple?
Posted by: mark | March 09, 2010 at 03:10 AM
eBay is not a train wreck. Whenever I make use of it, I found something new amazing and fairly easy to use, made me happy.
Posted by: sell my phone | January 05, 2010 at 09:50 PM
it really does make sense to one of these apps together if you're a big organisation like ebay. apple's apps are getting a huge audience.
Posted by: roofbox | December 31, 2009 at 02:46 AM