eBay

American  

[ee-bey] / ˈiˌbeɪ /

Digital Technology, Trademark.

1. the brand name for an internet retail website, launched in 1995, that specializes in consumer-to-consumer sales.

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Etymology

Origin of eBay

First recorded in 1990–95; short for Echo Bay Technology Group, a company founded by the founder of eBay, Pierre Omidyar (born 1967), French-born American entrepreneur of Iranian ancestry

Example Sentences

The ‘90s are back with a vengeance. Low-rise jeans, frosty lip gloss, baguette bags, fur boots — the whole Y2K closet has been ripped open and dumped all over TikTok. Gen-Z has been single-handedly keeping the eBay reseller market alive. And now that drinks trends are starting to catch up to fashion, the Cosmo’s younger, more “phone-eats-first” cousins have followed.

From Salon

That’s just good practice, whether it’s a legitimate email from eBay or not.

From MarketWatch

In the case of the eBay seller, whether it was a fake account or a phishing scam, I’ll never know.

From MarketWatch

I received an email from eBay, or it looks like it’s from an official eBay address, saying I had set up an account — “You’ve added a new trusted device” — but the email was mainly written in French and the number associated with the account was in France.

From MarketWatch

There’s one problem: I don’t have an eBay account associated with that particular email address, nor did I set one up.

From MarketWatch