Columbus, Nebraska, is a small city with a population of less than 20,000 people, and according to Connor Winston, you can't run a half marathon in a week.

Despite the city's small size, the Conor Winstons did not live in the city. Fifteen miles from the city was his family's farm, where his parents, his older siblings, and his five tended two thousand acres of corn, one hundred and fifty cows, and eight bulls (this is what was called the harem).

Although Columbus has always had little rain, there was a rainstorm the other day, and Connor noticed that the roof was leaking, so he found some iron sheets and moved a ladder to climb the roof to repair it.

A short time after he did this, Connor saw a Toyota pickup truck pulling his second-hand Volvo in front of his house in the distance.

"Connor, your damn Volvo is broken down again, I told you not to buy a Volvo for a second-hand car, but luckily Sunny and her father were returning from the city and helped me tow it back, otherwise they would have left me on the road again. As soon as James Winston, who was flushed, got out of the car, he couldn't help but complain when he saw his brother banging on the roof with a few nails in his mouth.

Connor climbed down the ladder, opened the front hood, and checked, "It's not a big deal, it should be a broken gasoline pump, just replace it." ”

Jaime went into the house and got a bottle of beer from the fridge: "Columbus doesn't have any accessories for your car, and it will take at least two hours to get to Omaha, even if you buy a Japanese car, it will be much easier than this car." ”

Conor Winston removed the gas pump with a tool and looked at the model, "No need to go to Omaha, I'll look on eBay to see if there are any second-hand ones, anyway, I don't have to go out these days, it's okay to wait a few days." ”

Jaime shrugged, "Okay, even then, you're going to make a trip to the city to send money, Mom and Dad are going to pick up Jenny in the city, and I'll go to Sunny House and drive my car back in a while, you can drive my car." ”

Conor Winston went back to his room and turned on his iCom, which he had waited three weeks for to arrive, wiping it down with a cleaning cloth every day.

Click on IE browser,The page automatically jumps to the default homepage tips,Connor clicked on the ebay link,Wait for almost half a minute,The ebay page slowly opened。

"230f2061......" Connor entered the parts number of the gasoline pump on eBay, and after a while, the search results appeared.

Sure enough, someone on eBay is auctioning this gasoline pump, marked 9 into new, good performance, the auction reserve price is $5, the price is $10, if you buy a new one, the price must be multiplied by at least ten, the data shows that the seller is in Loveland, Colorado.

Connor looked at it, there were still two and a half hours before the auction deadline, Connor really didn't bother to wait any longer, thought about it, and clicked the fixed price button.

After confirming the purchase, Connor didn't see the familiar remittance information page, but instead saw a new page for him to choose a payment method.

"PayPal? What is this?" Connor was a little confused.

It's not the first time he's buying things on eBay, and he used to send money by personal check, which is a bit troublesome and takes a long time, and if he wants to go faster, he has to go to a bank in the city to send money.

"It only takes five minutes to complete the payment? No more checks?" Connor was curious, clicking on PayPal's payment button.

Follow the prompts step by step, enter the email address and password to register a PayPal account, bind your credit card and provide driver's license information, Connor complained in his heart, these actions alone have been more than five minutes.

After binding the credit card, the page prompts Connor to use PayPal to pay. Connor followed the prompts, cautiously clicked the payment button, entered the security code, and the screen suddenly froze.

Connor was worried, what's going on? Didn't succeed? No, the money didn't go but the money was deducted, right?

Fortunately, it didn't take long for the progress bar to move a few times, and the screen showed that he had made a successful payment, and eBay would remind the seller to ship the goods as soon as possible.

"Is this done?" Connor felt a little incredulous, and checked his order record again, and sure enough, the order had been successful.

In Buckley, Colorado Loveland, he also received an email alert that someone had purchased a gasoline pump that he auctioned on eBay, and the buyer had already transferred the money to his PayPal account on eBay, and he could receive the money after the order was approved.

PayPal, it's really convenient, Connor and Loveland, who are nearly a thousand kilometers away, sighed in their hearts at the same time.

Meg Whitman is also in a good mood, and it is indeed the right thing to do to integrate PayPal into eBay's payment channels, which has increased by 18% since the smooth docking of eBay and PayPal ports a week ago.

Although eBay's trading volume is growing every day, an 18% increase in a week has never been seen except in the early days of eBay's inception due to its low base and strong volatility.

It has been proven that as long as the channels of online shopping are smooth, there is no bottleneck in the growth of turnover.

At least not now.

But Meg's good mood lasted only until half past three in the afternoon.

Meg looked at the competitor information handed over to her by the marketing department and frowned: "Amazon's volume has increased by 25% this week?

Amazon is now eBay's biggest rival, and although eBay still claims to be the number one online shopping company, now that Amazon is menacing, Meg Whitman has made Amazon a potential biggest rival of eBay.

Dan Leslie of the marketing department pushed his glasses: "According to our analysis, they also connected to the PayPal interface last week, they are online bookstores, which are more limited by payment channels than the platform we are doing now, so the performance improvement performance is also more obvious." ”

Meg Whitman's brow furrowed even more, even though eBay and Amazon now seem to be in completely different markets. However, as an e-commerce company, with the expansion of its business scope, the two will sooner or later meet together and fight each other.

Meg Whitman picked up the phone, thought about it, and put it down again.

Let's look at it for a while, the current cooperation is quite beneficial to both parties, you can cooperate for a year or two first, and then make plans.

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Bezos bound his credit card, clicked the payment button, and within a minute, the order was paid.

"Interesting. Bezos picked up the phone with a strong look of interest in his eyes.

"Zack, call me back when you turn it on, your PayPal is really great, I think we can talk." ”

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"Acquire PayPal? Why?" Steve Keys looked at his assistant in surprise, "I can't buy whatever company that kid opens, right?"

"Okay, okay, this system just provides some convenience for our customers, no big deal. ”

Steve Keys vetoed his men's proposals.

"Didi" Steve Case's phone rang, and Steve Keys glanced at the caller ID: "Hey, boy, I just talked about you, but this time you don't want to take another penny on me, I won't buy your PayPal." ”

Zhang Chen was inexplicable: "Steve, are you taking drugs?" Who said they were going to sell you PayPal?"

Steve Keys had just finished reading last month's earnings report, and he was in high spirits, "Count your good fortune, the $100 million stock you got in your hands before has doubled, and I never heard a word of thank you from your mouth." ”

Zhang Chen laughed twice: "You should thank me, you didn't want to pay cash at all, if it was all stock payment, you would lose more." ”

Steve Keys said angrily: "Tell me, what's the matter with me?"

Zhang Chen smiled and said, "Steve, have you ever considered triple play?"

Steve Keys frowned: "Triple play in one?"

Zhang Chen explained: "The three networks are the Internet, telecommunications network, and radio and television network. I met a young man in France today and his train of thought gave me some inspiration that I think should be useful to you. He's doing something like that. He now runs two companies, both of which I decided to invest in. His first company is similar to your AOL in that it provides Internet ISP services, which is equivalent to the French version of AOL. But the second company that has just been established is quite interesting, he thinks that the three network customers have strong mutual coverage, and they can be completely integrated in one network, so he intends to set up a company to do the business of three networks in one, I think you can consider this model. ”

(End of chapter)