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95-405: The View-Master Personal stereo camera was introduced by Sawyer's, Inc. in 1952 and was part of a complete system designed to allow amateurs to produce their own personal View-Master reels. The View-Master Personal stereo camera uses 35mm film to produce 69 stereo pairs from a 36-exposure roll of film. This is accomplished by a "lens shift" mechanism which starts out in the "A" position to expose

190-561: A United States district court jury found eBay guilty of willful patent infringement and ordered the company to pay $ 35 million in damages after MercExchange accused eBay of infringing on three patents, one of which is used in eBay's "Buy It Now" feature. The decision was appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC). The CAFC affirmed the judgment of willful infringement, and reversed

285-404: A Vickrey auction (sealed-bid) proxy bid system. Buyers and sellers may rate and review each other after each transaction, resulting in a reputation system. The eBay service is accessible via websites and mobile apps . Software developers can create applications that integrate with eBay through the eBay API. Merchants can also earn commissions from affiliate marketing programs by eBay. eBay

380-586: A classified advertising website, in international markets. It launched in the United States in July 2007. In May 2005, eBay acquired Gumtree , a classified advertising website in the United Kingdom. In October 2005, eBay Inc. acquired Skype Technologies for $ 2.6 billion. ProStores was an e-commerce website hosting company owned by eBay. Formerly known as Kurant StoreSense, ProStores

475-558: A dictation machine . The company's workforce numbered about 300 in January 1960, but within two years it had more than doubled, to 687 at the beginning of February 1962. Sawyer's was the second-largest U.S. manufacturer of slide projectors in the early and mid-1960s, second only to Eastman Kodak , which had introduced the Carousel slide projector in the early 1960s and patented it in 1965. A 1965 Oregonian article stated that Sawyer's

570-567: A $ 514 million cash investment in Flipkart. Flipkart launched a program to allow its sellers to sell to customers globally in partnership with eBay. eBay reported a gain of $ 167 million on the sale of its India operations. In May 2018, eBay sold its stake in Flipkart to Walmart and relaunched its operations in India. In August 2017, eBay shut Half.com . In October 2017, eBay released image retrieval capability allowing users to find listings on

665-461: A 1946 article in The Oregonian , "For 20 years Mayer retained membership in the pharmaceutical ranks, but never practiced his profession," working instead on building up the photofinishing business of Sawyer's. In 1924, the company was occupying a 60-by-100-foot (18 m × 30 m), two-story building on SW 20th Avenue, next to Multnomah Field in central Portland. By that time,

760-550: A 30% minority ownership interest in Skype, after failing to integrate Skype into the company's online marketplace. Microsoft acquired the entire company for $ 8.5 billion in May 2011. In June 2011, eBay acquired GSI Commerce for $ 2.4 billion. In June 2013, it was renamed eBay Enterprise . In May 2012, RentPath , then known as Primedia, acquired Rent.com from eBay for approximately $ 415 million. In September 2012, eBay introduced

855-518: A European subsidiary named Sawyer's Europe in 1952, in a newly built facility in Sint-Niklaas , Belgium, and expanded the factory in 1964. It established three other foreign subsidiaries in 1958, in Sydney , Australia (Sawyer's Inc. Australia Pty. Ltd. ); Tokyo , Japan; and France. The French company was a subsidiary of Sawyer's Europe and was named View-Master S.A. During the late 1950s

950-579: A Portland firm that had been producing specialized machinery for Sawyer's since 1946, built its own new plant adjoining the new Sawyer's plant in Progress. Also in 1951, Sawyer's purchased Tru-Vue , a producer of stereoscopic film strips that had been the main competitor of the View-Master product line. In addition to eliminating its main rival, the takeover also gave Sawyer's Tru-Vue's licensing rights to Walt Disney Studios . Sawyer's capitalized on

1045-400: A business account due to the high web traffic of his website. The monthly price increase from $ 30 to $ 250 prompted Omidyar to start charging eBay users. The website made $ 1,000 in its first month, which was more than it cost to run, and $ 2,500 in its second month. Chris Agarpao was eBay's first employee; he processed mailed check payments. Jeffrey Skoll was hired as the first president of

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1140-462: A comparatively small total of $ 100,000 in sales for the same period. Sales in Canada represented 5 percent of the company's gross sales. In June 1966, the owners of Sawyer's Inc. revealed that they were considering selling the company to General Aniline & Film Corp. (GAF), of New York and formerly German-owned, and that the two companies had been negotiating on and off since July 1965. A deal

1235-578: A controlling stake in G-Market , a South Korean online retailer, for $ 413 million. In May 2009, eBay launched the Selling Manager Applications program (SM Apps). The program allows approved developers to integrate their applications directly into the eBay.com interface. In November 2009, eBay sold a 70% stake in Skype to a consortium led by Silver Lake Partners and Marc Andreessen at a $ 2.75 billion valuation, while retaining

1330-445: A false shipping damage claim with the shipping company, friendly fraud (receiving merchandise and claiming otherwise), returning items other than received, removing parts from an item and returning it for a refund, sending a forged payment-service e-mail that states that he or she has made a payment to the seller's account as proof of payment, making a low bid then using pseudo-accounts to make high nonpaying bids in an attempt at gaining

1425-667: A heart attack. The company took the first steps towards developing the View-Master stereoscope after a chance meeting, at the Oregon Caves in 1938, between Graves and William Gruber, an organ maker of German origin trained by Welte & Sons and an avid photographer, living in Portland. The View-Master used disk-shaped "reels" which are thin cardboard disks containing seven stereoscopic 3-D pairs of small color photographs on film, and its individual eyepieces immersed

1520-447: A leather case, the bottom of which could be left on except when loading and unloading film. Other accessories included custom filters and a flash attachment. The introduction of a camera that allowed amateurs to produce their own View-Master reels generated a lot of excitement among fans of the commercial reels, which at the time were dominated by scenic subjects. Though the camera was a bit pricey compared to most consumer level cameras of

1615-526: A little closer than 4 feet for f/11. The Shutter speed is continuously adjustable and has labeled marks at 10, 15, 25, 50, and 100 with several unlabeled marks between these numbers. It also has a Bulb (B) setting. There is an exposure indicator which can be adjusted for different film speeds (ASA 5–100). This dial rotates as shutter speed and aperture are adjusted to indicate proper exposure in conditions of bright sun, hazy sun, cloudy bright, and cloudy dull for dark, average and light subjects. The view finder

1710-481: A low second chance offer price, damaging a non-refundable item to get a refund by claiming that the seller sent the item already damaged (in cases of buyer's remorse ), and a package redirection scam , in which the return package is filled with garbage and sent to the wrong address. In 2004, Tiffany & Co. filed a lawsuit against eBay claiming that over 70% of the Tiffany silver jewelry offered for sale on eBay

1805-723: A majority stake in Internet Auction Co. Ltd, operator of the largest internet auction website in South Korea. In February 2002, eBay acquired iBazar, a French online auction site founded in 1998, for approximately $ 112 million in stock. eBay entered the Chinese market in 2002 and shut down its Chinese site in 2007 due to competition from local rival Taobao . In February 2002, eBay exited Japan due to competition from Yahoo! Japan and began operations in Taiwan with

1900-455: A mounting service through mail order and similar services were offered by local dealers. Users could also mount their own images. Personal reel mounts were available with special pockets to insert the film chips. The pockets had marks on them corresponding to the notches on the right and left images. Because of the tight tolerances required by these slip in pockets and the way the images are arranged, it would be nearly impossible to properly cut

1995-508: A new logo using a thinner variation of the Univers typeface. It replaced the thicker Univers logo. In October 2012, eBay launched an international shipping partnership with Pitney Bowes whereby a seller of an item to be shipped internationally can send the item to a Pitney Bowes facility in their home country, which then forwards it to the international buyer, taking care of all international shipping requirements. The company also launched

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2090-667: A partnership with FedEx to offer discounted shipping options to sellers. In November 2012, eBay was charged in the High-Tech Employee Antitrust Litigation , accused by the United States Department of Justice of entering into non-solicitation agreements with other technology companies involving highly skilled employees. The litigation was settled in May 2014, with eBay required to end anti-competitive practices. On September 30, 2014, eBay announced it would spin off PayPal into

2185-455: A partnership with Square for seller financing loans of up to $ 100,000. In September 2018, in response to the YouTube headquarters shooting , eBay announced plans to install a security fence around the perimeter of its San Jose headquarters to protect employees. In March 2019, the company paid its first dividend following investor pressure to improve shareholder return. On July 31, 2019,

2280-421: A percentage of the company's annual sales. In 1951, the company moved from Portland proper to the unincorporated Progress area in Portland's southwestern suburbs. In 1966, Sawyer's was acquired by New York-based General Aniline & Film (GAF), and its product lines and facilities were taken over by GAF. It was a subsidiary company of GAF until 1968, when it became simply a division of that company, renamed

2375-467: A permanent injunction against eBay auctions of LVMH perfumes, whether counterfeit or not. eBay banned such items from its site. Also that month, a court in Troyes, France awarded eBay to pay luxury goods maker Hermès €20,000 due to the sale of two counterfeit bags on eBay in 2006. The court also ordered eBay to post the ruling on the home page of eBay's French website for three months. Items stolen from

2470-514: A photo-finishing company, Sawyer's began producing and selling View-Masters in 1939, and that soon became its primary product. It later diversified into other photographic products, mostly related to film transparencies, and established manufacturing plants in Europe, Japan and India. By the early 1960s, Sawyer's was the nation's second-largest manufacturer of slide projectors, and by 1965 slide projectors had surpassed View-Master reels and equipment as

2565-550: A second offering was made three years later. In 1965, the View-Master product line represented 37 percent of the company's sales, whereas slide projectors and accessories accounted for 43 percent. Sales of slides, slide viewers , Tru-Vue stereoscopic viewers and various other products made up the remainder of sales. Total sales for the fiscal year ending in April 1965 was reported to be $ 19.3 million, and amounted to $ 26 million (equivalent to $ 244 million in 2023 ) in

2660-514: A separate publicly traded company, a demand made nine months prior by activist hedge fund magnate Carl Icahn . The spinoff was completed on July 18, 2015. eBay's then chief executive, John Donahoe, stepped down from that role. In January 2015, eBay acquired Vivanuncios, a classified advertising website in Mexico. In June 2015, eBay sold its stake in Craigslist back to the company, ending

2755-460: A stake in Sawyer's. Graves handled marketing for the company's products while Mayer ran the business. Later, photographic greeting cards marketed to major department stores were added to the Sawyer's product line. Sawyer's was the nation's largest producer of scenic postcards in the 1920s. Mayer remained the company's general manager for more than three decades, until his death in 1956 from

2850-601: A tirade demanding that they fix the machine. Once the supply of new mounts evaporated, the cost of the remaining NOS mounts and mounts purchased by users but never used skyrocketed. Single blank reels were often sold for $ 4 and sometimes as high as $ 8. There have, over the years, been companies that offered to mount VM images on reels for those not wanting to do their own mounting, mostly through mail order. For those interested in making their own reels but don't want to bother mounting them themselves this could be worth looking into. There may be other possible uses for VM cameras. It

2945-560: Is possible, for example, to scan the images from a film strip taken with the VM camera using a film scanner but this is a rather involved process and the quality of the resulting images is likely to be a disappointment. Sawyer%27s Sawyer's, Inc. was an American manufacturer and retailer of slide projectors , scenic slides, View-Master reels and viewers, postcards, and related products, based in Portland, Oregon . Founded in 1914 as

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3040-417: Is the direct view type with a bubble level visible in the frame, to ensure proper alignment. The flash synchronization is through a nonstandard connector. Since standard slide film was used in the camera, users needed only to submit the film to any processor and request that it be returned uncut. Once the film was processed, there were several options for mounting the images in reels. Sawyer's, Inc. offered

3135-516: The British Museum in 2013 were auctioned on eBay in 2016. The museum reported that several items of jewelry made of gold, semi-precious stones, and glass, dating from between 1,500 BC and the 19th century   AD, were among those missing. One piece of ancient Roman jewelry made from onyx – valued between £25,000 and £50,000, or US$ 32,000 and US$ 63,000 – was listed on eBay with a minimum price of £40 (US$ 50) in 2016. There were no bids made for

3230-714: The Smith & Wollensky restaurant in New York City, with all of the proceeds going to the Glide Foundation . Auctions were held annually in 21 years between 2000 and 2022, with no auctions in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic . In total, auctions on eBay for lunch with Buffett raised $ 53.2 million for the Glide Foundation, with winning bids ranging from $ 2 million to as high as $ 19 million for

3325-486: The board of directors of Craigslist. Craigslist countersued in May 2008 alleging that eBay used its board seat to gain insider information about Craigslist that was used to compete against the company. In September 2010, Delaware Judge William B. Chandler III ruled that the actions of Craigslist were unlawful and that the actions were taken by Craigslist founders Jim Buckmaster and Craig Newmark had "breached their fiduciary duty of loyalty", and restored eBay's stake in

3420-523: The CEO of the company. In June 2020, Fred D. Anderson and Thomas J. Tierney resigned from the board of directors of the company; both had been directors since 2003. In July 2020, eBay sold its classifieds business to Adevinta for $ 2.5 billion in cash and 540 million shares of Adevinta. To gain regulatory approval, Gumtree was further divested. eBay sold its shares in Adevinta in 2023, when that company

3515-577: The GAF Consumer Photo Division. For several years thereafter, GAF used "Sawyer's" as a brand name for its slide projectors. Sawyer's was founded in Portland, Oregon , in 1914 by Carleton Sawyer and A. R. Specht as a photo-finishing service. Specht was a Portland executive in the San Francisco -based Owl Drug Company chain. Owl Drug's Portland store was the chain's third-busiest, and Specht hoped to capitalize on

3610-592: The Mark II features a diagonal film path which exposes the film in one pass and yields 75 pairs on a 36-exposure roll instead of 69. The different image arrangement made it incompatible with the View-Master Personal cutter, so a new cutter designed for the Mark II was produced. Like the View-Master Personal, it lacked a hot shoe but did feature a cold shoe, as well as both "X" and "M" contacts, so it should work with most modern electronic flash units with

3705-435: The U.S. and in more than 100 foreign countries. Some of its foreign sales and manufacturing were made through subsidiary companies. Largest of these was Sawyer's Europe, S.A., which was 57.5% owned by the parent company in the U.S. and had a workforce of about 200. It recorded sales of $ 2.7 million in fiscal year 1965, while a wholly owned Japanese subsidiary and a 49-percent-owned Indian affiliate collectively recorded

3800-570: The View-Master Stereomatic 500 projector. The Stereomatic 500 was much like other 50's stereo projectors except that it had a carriage and lens system designed for View-Master reels. It was used with polarized glasses and a silver screen for stereoscopic projection of reels. Of course, the Stereomatic 500 could be used to project commercial reels as well, a fact not lost on avid collectors of such reels. Sawyer's also offered

3895-611: The View-Master was introduced at the New York World's Fair (marked "Patent Applied For"). It was intended as an alternative to the scenic postcard, and was originally sold at photography shops, stationery stores, and scenic-attraction gift shops. The main subjects of the first View-Master reels were Carlsbad Caverns and the Grand Canyon . The View-Master was marketed through the photo-finishing, postcard, and greeting-card company, Sawyer's, Inc. The partnership led to

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3990-415: The acquisition of NeoCom Technology for $ 9.5 million. In June 2006, eBay turned over its operations in Taiwan to a joint venture partner. eBay acquired PayPal on October 3, 2002 for $ 1.4 billion. It phased out its Billpoint payment service in January 2003. On May 28, 2003, in the case of eBay Inc. v. MercExchange, L.L.C. , which had implications for the treatment of business method patents ,

4085-408: The bottom half of the film while the film is wound out of the canister and then in the "B" position the top half of the film is exposed while it is wound back into the canister. The A/B selector, aside from shifting the images up and down also adjusts the film winding mechanism so that when the selector is on "A" the knob turns counter clockwise and the film counter counts down, and when it is on "B"

4180-424: The cameras often sell for $ 75, or even less. This shortage of cutters is exacerbated by the fact that the Mark II cutter and the View-Master personal cutter are not interchangeable. Anyone who is looking for a camera and cutter for actual use would be advised to find a cutter first then buy the camera that matches it. VM personal reel mounts are another story. In 1953, a six pack of blank reel mounts sold for $ 1 In

4275-631: The company acquired a 5.59% stake in Paytm Mall. In September 2019, facing pressure from activist shareholder Elliott Investment Management , Devin Wenig resigned as CEO. Scott Schenkel , senior vice president and chief financial officer since 2015, was appointed as the interim CEO. In November 2019, eBay agreed to sell StubHub to Viagogo for $ 4.05 billion in cash; the sale was completed in February 2020. In April 2020, Jamie Iannone became

4370-434: The company acquired the myFitment group of companies, specializing in online sales of automotive and powersports parts and accessories. In October 2022, the company acquired TCGPlayer , a marketplace for collectible card games, for up to $ 295 million. In July 2023, the company acquired Certiligo, a provider of artificial intelligence -powered digital IDs and authentication for apparel and fashion goods. In January 2024,

4465-417: The company announced plans to lay off 9% of its workforce after hiring outpaced growth projections. Using MissionFish as an arbiter, eBay allows sellers to donate a portion of their auction proceeds to a charity of the seller's choice and charges discounted fees for charity auctions. High-profile charity auctions facilitated via eBay include the "Power Lunch" with investor Warren Buffett for 8 people at

4560-493: The company began manufacturing slide projectors (for conventional 2x2-inch slides), viewers for conventional slides and scenic slide sets. By 1961, slide projectors had become Sawyers' second-most-profitable product. A new model introduced in 1963 was known as the Sawyer's Rotomatic and used upright circular trays, called Rototrays, to hold the slides (100 per tray). Sales totaled $ 8.6 million in 1961 and $ 9.1 million in 1962. New products introduced in 1962 included

4655-540: The company charges commissions to sellers upon sales. eBay was founded by Pierre Omidyar in September 1995. It has 132 million yearly active buyers worldwide and handled $ 73 billion in transactions in 2023, 48% of which was in the United States. In 2023, the company had a take rate (revenue as a percentage of volume) of 13.81%. eBay is used by individuals, companies, as well as governments to purchase and sell almost any legal, non-controversial item. eBay's auctions use

4750-482: The company had begun producing photographic postcards and souvenir photo sets. As business grew, the company purchased an adjacent 70-by-90-foot (21 m × 27 m) two-story building on SW Ella Street (now 20th Place) for expansion. In 1926, Harold J. Graves joined the company. He had served a long stint as a U.S. Army photographer and then operated photo shops in Salem and Eugene, Oregon , before buying

4845-491: The company in early 1996. In November 1996, the company launched online auctions for airline seats, hotel rooms, cruise berths and other travel-related products in partnership with Electronic Travel Auctions. By that time, the company had hosted more than 200,000 auctions since its founding 14 months earlier. The company changed the name of its service from AuctionWeb to eBay in September 1997, after Echo Bay Technology Group, Omidyar's consulting firm. The echobay.com domain name

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4940-475: The company moved its headquarters and production facilities from its longtime Portland location near Multnomah Stadium to a new complex built on a 14.5-acre (5.9 ha) site in the then-unincorporated area known as Progress , between Beaverton and Tigard and in the southwestern suburbs of the Portland metropolitan area . The site was located along a Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway line and adjacent to Oregon Highway 217 . Stereocraft Engineering,

5035-467: The company to 28.4% from a diluted level of 24.85%. However, the judge dismissed eBay's objection to a staggered board provision, citing that Craigslist has the right to protect its own trade secrets. In May 2008, eBay announced the opening of a building on the company's North Campus in San Jose, California , the first ground-up structure in the city to be built to LEED Gold standards. The building,

5130-546: The country's leading online auction platform (EachNet) and reaching an 85% market share. Within four years, the development of Alibaba's Taobao resulted in eBay's market share in China decreasing to 7.7%. In August 2004, eBay acquired 25% of the classified advertising website Craigslist for $ 32 million. Former disgruntled Craigslist executive Phillip Knowlton was the seller. In December 2004, eBay acquired Rent.com for $ 415 million. In March 2005, eBay launched Kijiji ,

5225-532: The couple's home in Natick, Massachusetts . The conspirators pleaded guilty and most were sentenced to prison terms. Wenig, the company's CEO at the time of the harassment campaign, who was frequently targeted by the newsletter and was described as having paranoia over the criticism, was not charged, instead leaving the company in September 2019 with a $ 57 million severance package . Steve Wymer, chief communication officer, who had ties with local politicians,

5320-456: The early 1990s, the price had risen to $ 4.50 per six pack, which is a little less than the $ 5.25 that the 1953 price would be in 1992 dollars. Though the Cameras weren't made anymore, the various companies that owned the VM line over the years continued to manufacture and sell the blank reel mounts until the machine broke and Fischer Price decided not to fix it. This led to a comedian delivering

5415-497: The ease of use of the VM cameras, many of the original owners were not technically inclined and had their pictures mounted professionally rather than doing it themselves. As a result, the number of VM cameras sold greatly exceeded the number of cutters sold. Though the Camera originally sold for $ 149 and the cutter for $ 19.50 (equivalent to $ 1,186 and $ 155 in 2008 dollars) the cutters typically sell today on eBay for at least $ 200 whereas

5510-423: The editors and publishers of EcommerceBytes, a newsletter that eBay executives viewed as critical of the company. In addition to sending harassing messages and doxing , the defendants "ordered anonymous and disturbing deliveries to the victims’ home, including a preserved fetal pig, a bloody pig Halloween mask, a funeral wreath, a book on surviving the loss of a spouse, and pornography". The defendants also vandalized

5605-480: The film with scissors or with conventional film cutters. The View-Master Personal film cutter cut the chips to a tolerance of .001 inch, well within the requirements of the mounts. 24 and 36 inch close up attachments with prismatic lenses adjusted both the focus and the stereo base for close up photography of small objects. Personal reels could be viewed with the wide range of viewers designed for commercial reels but for group presentations Sawyer's offered

5700-473: The final auction in 2022. In May 2024, a charity auction for lunch with Marc Benioff , CEO of Salesforce , raised $ 200,000 plus an additional donation of $ 1.5 million for the Glide Foundation. Also benefitting charity, a letter sent to Mark P. Mays, CEO of Clear Channel Communications by Senator Harry Reid and forty other Democratic senators, complaining about comments made by conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh , sold for $ 2,100,100, with all of

5795-430: The first the company had built in its 13-year existence, uses an array of 3,248 solar panels, spanning 60,000 square feet (5,600 m ), and providing 650 kilo watts of power, 15–18% of the company's total energy requirements, reducing carbon dioxide usage by 37 million pounds over 30 years. The building also has energy-efficient lighting and water system and most waste is recycled. In April 2009, eBay agreed to acquire

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5890-472: The following fiscal year. A movie projector for use with the then-new Super 8 film was introduced as a new Sawyer's product around early 1965. In 1965, the company was manufacturing 2,000 projectors a day, and daily production of View-Master reels had grown from a recent norm of 50,000 to as many as 160,000 on peak days. In addition to its own name, Sawyer's sold its products under the brand names View-Master, Tru-Vue and Pana-Vue, with sales throughout

5985-490: The idea of amateur View-Master photography with the View-Master Stereo Color aka View-Master Mark II. This camera had fixed focus and was designed to produce images for View-Master reels, but that is where the similarity ends. Both the design and operation of the camera were simplified and it was also made more compact and versatile. Instead of the straight two pass image format of the View-Master Personal,

6080-417: The image area. The View-Master Personal is fixed focus with variable aperture and shutter speed. The aperture selector is continuously adjustable and has marks for 3.5, 4, 4.5, 5.6, 6.3, 8, 11, and 16. The aperture selector has a hyperfocal table that shows the "range of sharpness from X to infinity for the aperture setting, about 7 feet for F/4, about 6 feet for F/5.6, a little closer than 5 feet for f/8 and

6175-774: The initial public offering, which was priced at $ 18 per share and closed for trading on its first day at $ 53 per share, both Omidyar and Skoll became billionaires. In the risk factors section of the annual report filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in 1998, Omidyar noted eBay's dependence on the continued strength of the Beanie Babies market. In June 2000, eBay acquired Half.com for $ 312 million in stock. In 2000, eBay partnered with Escrow.com to handle escrow for purchases and sales of motor vehicles, later expanded to other transaction types. By year-end, it had 22.5 million registered users and 79.4 million auctions per quarter. In January 2001, eBay acquired

6270-410: The knob turns clockwise and the counter counts up. The View-Master Personal advances by 8 sprockets with each picture and, as with Realist format cameras, there are two unrelated images between the right and left images of a pair, but there are also two smaller blank spaces. About half of the blank space is punched out with each film chip so that it can be handled by the blank area, to avoid scratching

6365-465: The litigation. In August 2015, eBay sold a portion of its stake in Snapdeal . In September 2015, Propay and Skrill were eliminated as payment methods on the eBay website, citing low usage. Flipkart and eBay entered into a strategic partnership in July 2017 under which eBay acquired a 5.44% stake in Flipkart in exchange for the contribution of its India business unit valued at $ 211 million and

6460-603: The lower court and granted a permanent injunction . eBay appealed the permanent injunction to the Supreme Court of the United States , which on May 15, 2006 found an injunction is not required nor automatic in this or any patent case where guilt has been established. The case was sent back to the Virginia district court for consideration of the injunction and a trial on another MercExchange patent. In 2003, eBay sought to develop its e-commerce business in China , acquiring

6555-559: The new camera was carried out by Stereocraft Engineering, the established Sawyer's contractor that had followed Sawyer's in its move to a larger work site in the suburbs. Within two years, the Personal camera had spawned the introduction of a 3-D projector, the Stereomatic 500. A conventional still camera named the Nomad was introduced by Sawyer's in 1956, with models for two different film formats: 127 and 620 . Sawyer's established

6650-566: The opportunity and produced numerous reels featuring Disney characters. The takeover would pay off further in 1955, with reels of the newly opened Disneyland . The Tru-Vue Company was a subsidiary of Sawyer's, Inc. Through the 1950s Sawyer's successively introduced new models of its View-Master viewer. Sawyer's introduced the View-Master Personal Stereo Camera in 1952. The camera allowed amateurs to create their own View-Master reels. Most fabrication work on

6745-461: The platform would end February 1, 2015. In February 2006, Intuit launched a web-based version of ItsDeductible, a donation tracking service, using data from eBay to help users assign a market value to the items they donate. In April 2006, eBay launched eBay Express, a site that was designed to work like a standard Internet shopping site, with fixed prices and no bidding involved. The website had 10 million items listed upon its launch. The site

6840-534: The proceeds going to the Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation, benefiting the education of children of men and women who have died serving in the armed forces. The winning bid was matched by Limbaugh. In 2022, more than $ 163 million was raised for charities via the platform. In June 2020, five employees were terminated and were subject to charges of cyberstalking after they were accused of targeting Ina and David Steiner,

6935-652: The proper cord. Instead of separate shutter speed and aperture settings, the Mark II features a single dial that sets exposure values: _ feet to infinity Like the View-Master Personal, the Mark II features an exposure table adjustable for different film speeds. Film advance is through a trigger shaped "rapid wind" button that advances the film when it is pushed down. View-Master Personal and Mark II cameras are still actively traded through market places such as eBay and occasionally show up in estate sales. Most such cameras have been through several owners though barely used pristine examples do show up now and then. Because of

7030-568: The public's growing use of cameras by making Owl Drug a convenient source of photo-finishing services for Portlanders. In mid-1919, Edwin E. Mayer, a camera enthusiast who had just graduated from the North Pacific College of Pharmacy (in Portland), bought out Carleton Sawyer's stake in the company bearing his name. Later the same year, Mayer and three relatives acquired the remaining stake from A. R. Specht. According to

7125-547: The retail sales of View-Master viewers and disks. The patent on the viewing device was issued in 1940, on what came to be called the Model ;A viewer. Within a very short time, the View-Master took over the postcard business as Sawyer's biggest and most profitable product area. The company continued to make other photographic products, however, including about 30 million postcards per year and about 1.5 million photographic greeting cards per year. By 1942, Sawyer's

7220-816: The seller), receiving payment and not shipping merchandise, shipping items other than those described, giving a deliberately misleading description or photo, knowingly and deliberately shipping faulty merchandise, denying warranty exchange after pre-agreeing to return merchandise authorization of defective on arrival merchandise, knowingly fencing (selling stolen goods), misrepresenting the cost of shipping, using bulk shipping prices to knowingly mask much higher costing, individual return shipping, and using pseudo-accounts to make high nonpaying bids on similar items that competitors are selling. eBay has been criticized for not doing enough to combat shill bidding. There are techniques such as auction sniping , which let buyers avoid shill bidders. Fraud committed by buyers includes filing

7315-525: The site that match an item depicted in a photo, using artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies. On January 31, 2018, eBay announced that it would replace PayPal as its primary payments provider with Netherlands-based start-up Adyen , resulting in lower costs and more control of merchants. In May 2018, eBay acquired the Japanese e-commerce platform Qoo10 for $ 573 million. In July 2018, eBay announced support for Apple Pay as well as

7410-451: The time, the company had 30 employees, 500,000 users, and revenues of $ 4.7 million in the United States. In July 1998, eBay acquired Jump, the developer and operator of Up4Sale , an advertising-supported auction website which at the time had 27,000 separate auctions and 50,000 registered members. In September 1998, during the dot-com bubble , eBay became a public company via an initial public offering led by CFO Gary F. Bengier . Upon

7505-463: The time, the cost of film and processing was relatively inexpensive leading to the phrase, used on promotional reels, "Take pictures like this for less cost than snapshots." However, the View-Master personal system could not compete with the image quality and broad support of the already well established Realist format and so it became a niche market within a niche market. In 1955, Sawyer's ended production. In 1962, Sawyer's Europe attempted to revive

7600-448: The treasure. The police are investigating this case. The company said that it is supports local police in investigations and removes listings containing stolen property. In 2021, the estate of Dr. Seuss requested from eBay, and the company complied, to ban the sale of six Dr. Seuss books due to concerns that some images contained therein were racially insensitive. This led to backlash from followers of right-wing politics and ignited

7695-425: The viewer into the scene more fully than previous stereoscopes. Mayer and Gruber had both developed devices for viewing stereo images, but Gruber had developed the idea of mounting tiny pieces of Kodachrome color transparency film into reels made from heavy paper stock, for viewing in a stereo slide viewer designed for the reels. Gruber partnered with the owners of Sawyer's to develop the invention. In late 1939,

7790-463: The website were Beanie Babies , the most difficult toys to find in retail stores, accounting for 10% of all listings in 1997. Ty , the manufacturer, had set up a website whereby people could trade used Beanie Babies. However, it was overwhelmed with unsortable listings. With a user-friendly interface, eBay became popular with collectors. Meg Whitman was appointed president and CEO in March 1998. At

7885-424: The years following the transfer of ownership, but after a peak employment of 1,700 at the site in 1973 the workforce size declined to around 1,200 by 1976. It had fallen to about 1,000 by mid-1977, when layoffs of 400 were announced, which would reduce it to 600. A decline in the demand for projectors was cited as a key factor. At that time, The Oregonian newspaper reported that the ex-Sawyer's plant in Progress

7980-418: Was "one of the two largest U.S. manufacturers of slide projectors and related items, running neck and neck with Kodak, according to industry sources." A portable projection table was introduced in 1964. The company's main plant, in Progress, was employing 800 people. The number of dealers selling View-Master products had grown to about 9,000. Sawyer's made its first public offering of stock in 1962, and

8075-682: Was "the only domestic operation that produces movie and slide projectors". In announcing the layoffs in July 1977, GAF said it would be selling its projector-manufacturing operations and would also be discontinuing the manufacture and sales of consumer films, cameras and color paper. EBay eBay Inc. ( / ˈ iː b eɪ / EE -bay , often stylized as ebay or Ebay ) is an American multinational e-commerce company based in San Jose, California , that allows users to buy or view items via retail sales through online marketplaces and websites in 190 markets worldwide. Sales occur either via online auctions or "buy it now" instant sales, and

8170-504: Was acquired by private equity firms . In September 2020, Pierre Omidyar resigned from the board of directors, after resigning as chairman in 2015. In November 2021, eBay sold its South Korean business to Emart for $ 3 billion. In May 2022, eBay acquired a stake in Funko and became the preferred secondary marketplace for Funko. In June 2022, the company acquired KnownOrigin, a marketplace for non-fungible tokens . In August 2022,

8265-562: Was acquired by eBay Inc. by the end of 2005 changing the name to ProStores by eBay. ProStores' feature set included simple wizard-driven website, e-commerce capabilities, site design tools and e-business management. Smaller merchants could also manage the entire process of posting and selling products on eBay using the ProStores interface. It also offered inventory management, supplier communication and integration with Quickbooks and Dreamweaver . eBay announced on July 1, 2014 that support for

8360-500: Was already registered by Echo Bay Mines , a gold mining company, so Omidyar shortened it to eBay.com. In 1997, the company received $ 6.7 million in venture capital funding from Benchmark . The frequently repeated story that eBay was founded to help Omidyar's fiancée trade Pez candy dispensers was fabricated in 1997 by public relations manager Mary Lou Song to give the media a human-interest story and to generate publicity with toy collectors. The most purchased and sold items on

8455-704: Was fake and that eBay profited from the sales of counterfeit Tiffany items that infringed on its trademark. On July 14, 2008, a Federal District Court judge ruled that eBay does not have a legal responsibility to monitor users selling counterfeit items. In 2010, the Second Circuit affirmed this decision in Tiffany (NJ) Inc. v. eBay Inc. In June 2008, a court in Paris awarded damages of €40 million to LVMH over eBay auctions of counterfeit bags, perfumes, and other items sold by non-authorized retailers and entered

8550-543: Was finalized in October 1966, and Sawyer's Inc. was sold to GAF on October 31, 1966. The manufacturing facilities and workforce in the Progress area, in the southwestern suburbs of the Portland metropolitan area, were retained by GAF. Sawyers, Inc. became a wholly owned GAF subsidiary registered in Delaware , rather than Oregon, but initially continued to be managed by Robert Brost, president of Sawyer's since 1959, who

8645-487: Was fired "for cause" for alleged involvement but was not charged and was hired by the local chapter of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America . Fraud committed by sellers includes selling counterfeit merchandise / bootleg recordings , shill bidding (undisclosed vendor bidding that is used to artificially inflate the price of a certain item by either the seller under an alternate account or another person in collusion with

8740-591: Was founded as AuctionWeb in California on September 3, 1995, by French-born Iranian-American computer programmer Pierre Omidyar as a hobby to make some extra money. One of the first items sold on AuctionWeb was a broken laser pointer for $ 14.83. Astonished, Omidyar contacted the winning bidder to ask if he understood that the laser pointer was broken; the buyer explained: "I'm a collector of broken laser pointers." In February 1996, Omidyar's internet service provider informed him that he would need to upgrade to

8835-453: Was selling its products through almost 1,000 retail outlets nationwide. It was manufacturing about 250,000 View-Master viewers per year by the mid-1940s. In 1945–46, the company added two newly constructed two-story buildings to its complex on and near SW 20th Avenue. As of spring 1946, the company was employing about 100 people, but a factory expansion under way at that time was due to increase that figure by about 75 when completed. In 1951,

8930-546: Was shut down in October 2008. In January 2007, eBay acquired StubHub , an online marketplace for ticket resale , for $ 310 million. In January 2008, Meg Whitman resigned as president and CEO of eBay to enter politics, and was replaced with John Donahoe . Whitman remained on the board of directors and continued to advise Donahoe through 2008. In April 2008, eBay sued Craigslist, claiming that in January 2008, Craigslist took actions that "unfairly diluted eBay's economic interest by more than 10%", making eBay lose its seat on

9025-497: Was to remain in Portland. However, eventually operations were folded into GAF, with the former subsidiary being renamed as GAF's Consumer Photo Division in 1968. General Aniline and Film Corp., as opposed to "GAF", had remained that company's formal name until April 1968, when it was changed to GAF Corporation . For several years after that change, GAF used "Sawyer's" as a brand name for some of its slide projectors. GAF's Progress factory continued to do well and even expand in

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