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eBay Inc. (NASDAQ:EBAY):

A Head Start on What?s Hot

With 200 million gift options at their fingertips, eBay shoppers are too savvy to wait for stores to open on Black Friday to find great deals.

• Top selling products on eBay at the start of Thanksgiving week:
  • Shoppers know who?s got talent, buying up Susan Boyle?s ?I Dreamed a Dream? and Carrie Underwood?s ?Play On? CDs
  • Top-selling gifts for gamers including ?Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2,? Nintendo Wii, Xbox 360 and ?New Super Mario Bros. Wii?
  • Classic animated movies like new editions of ?The Lion King,? ?Beauty and the Beast,? ?The Little Mermaid,? ?Cinderella? and ?Toy Story? are hot again
  • Vampire series, ?True Blood? (The Complete First Season on DVD) and ?Twilight? (DVDs and hard cover books), sucked in lots of eBay shoppers.

Shopping on the Go

The only thing more convenient than online shopping is mobile shopping and eBay is making real-time comparison holiday shopping possible with the eBay iPhone app which has been downloaded more than 5 million times.

• Purchases made from the eBay iPhone app on Monday, November 23 and Tuesday, November 24 totaled more than $1 million in Gross Merchandise Volume.
• What are people buying most from their phones? More phones! Cell Phones & Smartphones were among the most commonly purchased items from eBay?s mobile app at the start of Thanksgiving week.

Shopping on Thanksgiving?

Last Thanksgiving day, there was approximately $50 million in Gross Merchandise Volume sold on eBay.

• The most popular time to shop on Thanksgiving Day 2008 was right before, after and during dinner ? 5pm to 8pm (PST)