Before this, ebay used the 2000 special thinkcenter and ThinkPad as a hot spot to promote, and netizens also bought it, many people registered ebay accounts, it was for these special ThinkPad and thinkcenter, but now you actually told me that you are running out of stock?

Even though the announcement on the website has said that the second batch of goods is being urgently prepared, everyone still can't help but feel a little nervous: it is said that it is preparation, but how much can be prepared, who can say for sure? This kind of thing, of course, is fast and slow.

"It's up!Boss, the user's registration speed is starting to rise again!" the assistant pointed to the upward curve on the display and excitedly shouted to Steve Ballmer, "Compared to before, the user's registration speed has increased by almost 10 percentage points." ”

"Not bad!" Steve Ballmer glanced at it and nodded in satisfaction: "Send our second bomb up!"

"Okay!"

The assistant rubbed his hands excitedly, and then quickly gave instructions on the keyboard.

Suddenly, an announcement popped up on the homepage of ebay again: from the moment ebay officially opened, every hour, the website launched a half-price AMC New Century sedan!

There is also a note below: Please click here for details of the event.

Click on this page, the website automatically jumps to a new web page, introducing the situation of the event in detail: every hour, ebay will launch a half-price AMC New Century car, whoever grabs it is anyone's, the user who grabs it can pick up the car at the nearest AMC car dealership, please contact the ebay official within three days, and those who do not contact the ebay official within the time limit will be deemed to have automatically given up this qualification......

No way?!

Looking at this announcement that popped up on ebay, the guys who were still waiting to see the ebay joke were all dumbfounded: a half-price AMC New Century sedan every hour?

Depending on the configuration, the market price of the AMC New Century is between $17,000 and $23,000, and even if it is a mid-range model, take the middle price, $20,000, and half price is $10,000......

Damn!

$10,000 for a brand new AMC New Century?!

This is too tempting, especially since eBay does not impose restrictions on what the owner does with the car, not to mention personal use, if you get the car and sell it, you will make thousands of dollars at once......

Earned, earned, earned!

At the moment in 1995, almost all the people who can get in touch with the Internet and play the Internet are students from top colleges and universities in the United States, as well as people in the computer industry and the Internet industry......

"This change of hands is thousands of dollars, such an obvious loophole, why didn't eBay officials notice it?"

"yes, it shouldn't be, how could they make such a childish mistake?"

"Maybe it's not a mistake they made, but a hole that was deliberately left behind?"

"Deliberately left a loophole? Huh...... Why didn't I think of that?"

"I see...... These Ebay guys are so cunning......"

............

Everyone understands what is going on with this special AMC New Century sedan, which has a special price every hour: it's not that ebay officials didn't notice this opening, but that this opening was deliberately set aside by them - for people, these ten or twenty cars are a lot of money, but for Fernández Chen, who is a shareholder of AMC Motors, as long as he can pull up ebay's traffic, is this money money?

When this news was announced, the number of views on eBay and the number of new user registrations began to climb again, as Steve Ballmer had predicted......

Steve Ballmer's assistant suddenly discovered a new problem: "Boss, the number of views has climbed too much, no matter how it continues, our servers are a little insufficient, and we need to urgently increase servers." ”

Steve Ballmer's eyelids jumped twice: "It's not enough so soon, and how long can it last?"

"With the current growth trend, it should last for two hours," the assistant said, "but I'm afraid it won't last for two hours." ”

Why didn't it last for two hours, because the official opening time of the previously scheduled ebay website was 9 o'clock in the morning, it is certain that as the time is delayed, more and more people will log in to the ebay website, and the server will definitely not be able to hold it at that time. Steve Ballmer naturally understood this, and he sighed: "Then add it...... Hopefully the standby server will be sufficient. ”

How can there be so many people?

Steve Ballmer is a little puzzled, can't all computers in the United States and the world have access to eBay?

Also, how much can eBay sell today?

Originally, Steve Ballmer felt that with 2,000 ThinkPad and thinkcenter and AMC New Century sedans as the foundation, the sales of five or six hundred thousand US dollars should be stable, and it is not impossible to work hard, seven or eight hundred thousand, but according to the current trend, is it possible to break one million? !

If sales can really break one million, it will be too good.

Just as Steve Ballmer was thinking, the assistant whispered to him: "Boss, it's nine o'clock in less than a minute, are you ready?"

"Ahh......h

Steve Ballmer reacted at this time, looked at the screen in front of him with a serious face, and at the same time touched the mouse with his right hand: The official opening of eBay, of course, must be confirmed by himself.

At 9 o'clock in the morning, eBay officially opened.

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What kind of results can eBay achieve on the first day of official opening?

This question is not only of interest to countless Internet practitioners, computer practitioners, and software development practitioners in the United States, but also to the media, and even more interested to those financial capitalists who have been staring at the development of Internet technology.

There is no doubt that the internet is a big gold mine!

But just how big is a gold mine in guys?

Everyone's eyes are on ebay - according to the previous ebay announcement, the statistics are based on the 24-hour data from 9 am yesterday to 9 am today, which makes many media who are used to delivering newspapers to newsstands quite uncomfortable: You will die sooner? How good is it to set it directly from 0:00 yesterday to 0:00 today? We will work overtime, but what is the matter now?

In this regard, Steve Ballmer can only express regret: before eBay, there was no website that made such a global sensation, we have no experience, everyone has no experience.