Ebay launches trading platform in Russia
Ebay launches it's Russian language auction site at the End of March 2010, taking on the Russian auction website Molotok. It will also be enabling buyers to use Paypal.
The US State department is currently undertaking a visit to Russia, the CEO of Ebay, John Donahoe, part of the delegation, to see how the US and Russia can use technology, e-commerce and social networking to improve ties between the two great nataions.
The use of the internet in Russia is described as being fragmented and around 40 years behind the rest of the world. Here at boxby we see the move of ebay into Russia as being a key step in helping ordinary people access and use the internet. Ebay's platform with it's millions of items and users is many people's first venture onto the internet.
Boxby specialises in delivering all those heavy, bulky and large items that can't be shipped using normal parcel services. Alistair Patterson, director at Boxby said today "we don't currently have a large number of couriers covering deliveries in Russia, I guess this is something that i'll have to look into".