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A Trying anything to change your situation
B Strange and expensive things
C Celebrity auction
D How it all began
E Larger than the others
F Unusual way of promotion
1 ______
If eBay were a country it would be as rich as Kuwait in terms of the money it generates. If the people who make their living selling goods on e-Bay were joined together, they would be bigger than Walmart, the USA’s biggest supermarket chain. To give you an idea of Walmart’s size, it has more people in uniform than the US army.
2 ______
Who is the person behind this success story? Believe it or not e-Bay’s founder Pierre Omidyar wrote the basic programme for it over a holiday weekend back in 1995. The very first thing that was sold was a broken laser printer. It is hard to imagine why anyone wanted to buy it!
3 ______
The site that has attracted the most people was of a man wearing his ex-wife’s wedding dress. He was trying to sell it, you see, and he believed that this was an ideal way of getting people’s attention. He certainly succeeded.
4 ______
Sometimes people seem to use auction sites as a way of showing their desperation. A man who had emigrated to Australia and who wanted to leave as quickly as possible put his life on e-Bay. He had all his personal possessions including his house and even his job as the manager of a carpet store.
5 ______
It is probably a piece of Britney Spears’ used chewing gum. In fact there are quite a lot of objects like this for sale, although it is difficult to verify if they really do belong to a star! As for the most valuable thing, that was a jet that fetched almost five million dollars.
A Trying anything to change your situation
B Strange and expensive things
C Celebrity auction
D How it all began
E Larger than the others
F Unusual way of promotion
1 ______
If eBay were a country it would be as rich as Kuwait in terms of the money it generates. If the people who make their living selling goods on e-Bay were joined together, they would be bigger than Walmart, the USA’s biggest supermarket chain. To give you an idea of Walmart’s size, it has more people in uniform than the US army.
2 ______
Who is the person behind this success story? Believe it or not e-Bay’s founder Pierre Omidyar wrote the basic programme for it over a holiday weekend back in 1995. The very first thing that was sold was a broken laser printer. It is hard to imagine why anyone wanted to buy it!
3 ______
The site that has attracted the most people was of a man wearing his ex-wife’s wedding dress. He was trying to sell it, you see, and he believed that this was an ideal way of getting people’s attention. He certainly succeeded.
4 ______
Sometimes people seem to use auction sites as a way of showing their desperation. A man who had emigrated to Australia and who wanted to leave as quickly as possible put his life on e-Bay. He had all his personal possessions including his house and even his job as the manager of a carpet store.
5 ______
It is probably a piece of Britney Spears’ used chewing gum. In fact there are quite a lot of objects like this for sale, although it is difficult to verify if they really do belong to a star! As for the most valuable thing, that was a jet that fetched almost five million dollars.
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