eBay Germany released for the first time last week their revenue numbers for their professional merchants.
From the German press release, from April 2008 to March 2009, 159,000 professional merchants in Germany turned over 3.1 billion euro worth of transactions. The product categories producing the most volume during this period were (in descending order), automobiles, auto-parts, clothing and accessories, sport and then business and industry.
Exports make up about one seventh of the total turnover. During the period analysed, German eBay merchants exported 433 million euro worth of goods, mostly to Austria, the US, Italy, France and the Netherlands (in that order).
As a comparison: The German E-Commerce and Distance Selling Trade Association (bvh) had previously estimated that eBay represented 2.1 million euro of the German distance trade market in 2008, and in 2007, 2.5 million.
Further mentioned in the eBay press release, German consumers also enjoy purchasing imported items from eBay Germany. Favorite imports include trampolines, clothing and whirlpools.
Originally posted in German by Jochen Krisch, adapted for excitingcommerce.com by Jason Soo.
Comments