Etsy.com vs Ebay.com

Etsy is an American e-commerce site focused on handmade or vintage items and art supplies. These items fall under a wide range of categories, including jewelry, bags, clothing, home décor and furniture, toys, art, just as craft supplies and tools. All vintage items should be least 20 years old. The site follows in the tradition of open art fairs, giving sellers personal storefronts where they list their products for a fee of US$0.20 per item. 

The site was launched in 2005 by iospace, a small company made out of Robert Kalin, Chris Maguire, and Haim Schoppik. The initial version had required more than two months to build. Later Jared Tarbell joined the group. Previous NPR leader Maria Thomas joined as COO in 2008, was promoted to CEO and left Etsy in December 2009. Robert Kalin continued his role as CEO from December 2009 until July 2011. Investors include Sean Meenan,[41] Albert Wenger, Spencer and Judson Ain, Union Square Ventures, and founders of Flickr and Delicious. 

On October 1, 2013, Dickerson held an online Town Hall Meeting to declare that Etsy would now allow factory-made goods and and drop shipping, provided the dealer either designed or hired designers of the items, disclosed to Etsy their factory, uncovered that they used factories and took "ownership" of the process. In that meeting and a while later, Etsy claimed the meaning of the word "handmade" should be redefined to encompass factory made.

In June 2014, Etsy bought A Little Market, a French e-commerce website for handmade products, foods, and wine, for a mix of cash and stock valued at less than $100 million. At the time the acquisition was the company's largest. In November 2016, Etsy unveiled that it paid US$32.5 million to buy Blackbird Technologies, a startup that created AI software used for shopping context/search applications. 

In 2018, Etsy accumulated an income of US$603.7 million and registered a net income of US$41.25 million. The platform generates income principally from three streams: its Marketplace income includes a fee of 5% of final sale value, which an Etsy seller pays for each completed transaction, on top of a posting fee of 20 cents per item; Seller Services, Etsy's fastest growing income stream, includes fees for services, for example, "Promoted Listings", payment processing, and purchases of shipping labels through the platform; while Other income includes fees received from third-party payment processors. 

As of December 31, 2018, Etsy had more than 60 million items in its marketplace, and the online marketplace for handmade and vintage products connected 2.1 million sellers with 39.4 million buyers. At the end of 2018, Etsy had 874 employees. In 2018, Etsy had total sales, or Gross Merchandise Sales (GMS), of US$3.93 billion on the platform.

eBay Inc. is an American global e-commerce company situated in San Jose, California, which encourages consumer-to-consumer and business-to-consumer sales through its website. eBay was founded by Pierre Omidyar in 1995, and became a notable success story of the dot-com bubble. eBay is a multibillion-dollar business platform which operates in about 32 countries, as of 2019. The organization manages the eBay site, an online sale and shopping site in which individuals and businesses purchase and sell a wide variety of products and services around the world. The site is free to use for buyers, but sellers are charged fees for posting items after a limited number of free postings, and again when those items are sold. 

The AuctionWeb was established in California on September 3, 1995, by French-born Iranian-American computer programmer Pierre Omidyar as part of a larger personal site. One of the first items sold on AuctionWeb was a broken laser pointer for $14.83. Surprised, Omidyar reached the winning bidder to inquire if he understood that the laser pointer was broken; the buyer explained: "I'm a collector of broken laser pointers." It soon became the first online auction website permitting individual to-individual transactions, and its popularity boomed. 

Jeffrey Skoll was employed as the first new president of the organization in early 1996. In November 1996, the E-Commerce platform entered into its first third-party licensing deal, with an organization called Electronic Travel Auction, to use SmartMarket Technology to sell plane tickets and other travel items. Development was exceptional: from 250,000 auctions during all of 1996 to 200,000 in January 1997 alone. 

In addition to eBay's original sale style deals, the site has developed and expanded to include: instant "Buy It Now" shopping; shopping by Universal Product Code, ISBN, or other kind of SKU number (through Half.com, which was shut down in 2017); online classified advertisements (by means of Kijiji, or eBay Classifieds); online event ticket trading (by means of StubHub); and different services. eBay recently offered online cash transfers as a feature of its services (by means of PayPal, which was a completely owned subsidiary of eBay from 2002 to 2015). 

On September 25, 2019, it was declared that Devin Wenig would be stepping down as eBay's CEO, and that Scott Schenkel, senior VP and CFO since 2015, had been appointed as the interim CEO. On April 13, 2020, it was reported that Jamie Iannone would become the CEO on April 27. On June 15, 2020, eBay clarified that Wenig and five different employees were fired in September after a law enforcement warning in August because of a possibly criminal case of harassment of journalists perpetrated by some of the fired employees. The six of them were charged of Aggressive Cyberstalking.