Chapter 6 : e-commerce - eBay

When we talk about internet nowadays, people will instantly connect it with money. With internet, shopping has never been easier. We can just sit at home in out comfort couch and go shopping. Thank you to the invention of credit card, we actually living in a shopping mall all the time.

There are many website that hosted shopping websites like Amazon.com, and one of the most famous now in the world is eBay.com and one of our very own auction website, Mudah.my. With a few clicks, we can own things that usually is much cheaper than that in the outlet itself.

Let's have a look at one of the website, and the one that interest me is eBay.com. So, what is actually eBay? How do they run their business? who will gain profit? is it safe to do trades in eBay?

eBay Inc is an American internet company that manages eBay.com, an online auction and shopping website in which people and businesses buy and sell a broad variety of goods and services worldwide. Founded in 1995, eBay is one of the notable success stories of the dot-com bubble; it is now a multi-billion dollar business with operations localized in over thirty countries.

Millions of collectibles, decor, appliances, computers, furnishings, equipment, vehicles, and other miscellaneous items are listed, bought, or sold daily on eBay. In 2006, eBay launched its Business & Industrial category, breaking into the industrial surplus business. Generally, anything can be auctioned on the site as long as it is not illegal and does not violate the eBay Prohibited and Restricted Items policy. Services and intangibles can be sold, too. Large international companies, such as IBM, sell their newest products and offer services on eBay using competitive auctions and fixed-priced storefronts. Separate eBay sites such as eBay US and eBay UK allow the users to trade using the local currency. Software developers can create applications that integrate with eBay through the eBay API by joining the eBay Developers Program. In June 2005, there were more than 15,000 members in the eBay Developers Program, comprising a broad range of companies creating software applications to support eBay buyers and sellers as well as eBay Affiliates.

Controversy has arisen over certain items put up for bid. For instance, in late 1999, a man offered one of his kidneys for auction on eBay, attempting to profit from the potentially lucrative (and, in the United States, illegal) market for transplantable human organs. On other occasions, people and even entire towns have been listed, often as a joke or to garner free publicity. In general, the company removes auctions that violate its terms of service agreement.

How it works?

The format in eBay is like an auction. People will need to bid for the price of the item.
eBay.com offers several types of auctions.

• Auction-style listings allow the seller to offer one or more items for sale for a specified number of days. The seller can establish a reserve price.
• Fixed price format allows the seller to offer one or more items for sale at a Buy It Now price. Buyers who agree to pay that price win the auction immediately without submitting a bid.
• Fixed price format with best offer allows the seller to accept best offers. If a buyer submits a best offer, the seller either rejects or accepts the best offer. If the best offer is not satisfactory, a seller may submit a counter offer to the buyer. Best offer is not available for auction style listings. In addition, best offer is not available in every category. Sellers also meet specific requirements in order to sell with best offer

Payment methods

PayPal is an e-commerce business allowing payments and money transfers to be made through the Internet. Online money transfers serve as electronic alternatives to traditional paper methods such as checks and money orders.

A PayPal account can be funded with an electronic debit from a bank account or by a credit card. The recipient of a PayPal transfer can either request a check from PayPal, establish their own PayPal deposit account or request a transfer to their bank account.

PayPal performs payment processing for online vendors, auction sites, and other commercial users, for which it charges a fee. It may also charge a fee for receiving money, proportional to the amount received. The fees depend on the currency used, the payment option used, the country of the sender, the country of the recipient, the amount sent and the recipient's account type. In addition, eBay purchases made by credit card through PayPal may incur extra fees if the buyer and seller use different currencies.

PayPal is a wholly owned subsidiary of eBay.

In conclusion, eBay is totally safe in doing trades and we can shop till we drop, and not because of bad reasons! :)

eBay Malaysia

posted by Hafiz bin Mohamed Said
2010102289

Chapter 6: Electronic Commerce

Electronic commerce (e-commerce, EC) describes the buying, selling, transferring or exchanging of products, services or information via computer networks, including the Internet.

i- Mobile Commerce (m-commerce) refers to e-commerce that is conducted in a wireless environment. i.e. using cell phone to shop over the Internet.

ii- Business model is the method by which a company generates revenue to sustain itself.

iii- Auction is a competitive process in which either a seller solicits bids from buyers or a buyer solicits bids from sellers.

iv- Forward auctions are auctions that sellers use as a channel to many potential buyers.

v- Reverse auctions one buyer, usually an organization, wants to buy a product or service

vi-  Electronic storefront is a Web site on the internet representing a single store.

 vii- Electronic mall (cybermall, e-mall) is a collection of individual shops under one Internet address.

viii-  Electronic marketplace (e-marketplace) is a central, virtual market space on the Web where many buyers and many sellers can conduct electronic commerce and electronic business activities.








Prepared by : Nur Farah Wahida Bt. Ahmad
Prepared for : Miss Ernie
21 March 2011

Chapter 7 : Wireless Technologies

UniFi - High Speed Broadband (HSBB)

Wireless technologies include both wireless devices, such as smart phone, and wireless transmission media, such as microwave, satellite and radio. These technologies are fundamentally changing the ways organizations operate an do business. Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) is a wireless computer networks and UniFi is a part of wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi). 


Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) is a medium range wireless local area network (WLAN), which is basically a wired LAN but without the cables. In typical configuration, a transmitter with an antenna, called a wireless access point, connects to a wired LAN or to fiber optic  cable that provide an internet connection. 

Wireless access point - TM UniFi

Wifi Function - Fiber Optic Cable 

What is Unifi?

Unifi  is an amalgamation of “Uni” which denotes togetherness and camaraderie, while “Fi” symbolises fibre optics. UniFi heralds a new age of digital lifestyle with a faster, richer and more reliable online experience. UniFi is a bundled triple play service offering VIP.

Meaning of VIP :

V : Video On Demand & TV (Hypp TV)

I  : Internet (HSBB)

P : Phone ( House Phone Number)

What is HSBB?

HSBB stands for High Speed Broadband delivering bandwidth at network speeds of 10Mbps and above through fixed line only as compared with normal broadband (Broadband for General Public – BBGP) delivered at network speeds ranging from 384Kbps to less than 10Mbps through fixed line (DSL) and wireless mode (3G/HSDPA, WiMax, WiFi).


More Information about UniFi : www.unifi.my


Prepared by : Nadzrin Azri Nor Azmi
Prepared for : Miss Ernie
12 March 2011