eBay Inc. is an American Internet company that manages eBay.com, an online auction and shopping website in which people and businesses buy and sell a broad variety of goods and services worldwide. Founded in 1995, eBay is one of the notable success stories of the dot-com bubble; it is now a multi-billion dollar business with operations localized in over thirty countries. [not in citation given] eBay expanded from its original "set-time" auction format to include "Buy It Now" standard shopping; shopping by UPC, ISBN, or other kind of SKU (via Half.com); online classified advertisements (via Kijiji or eBay Classifieds); online event ticket trading (via StubHub); online money transfers (via PayPal ) and other services.
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Campaign Finance
Figures are based on itemized contributions reported to the Federal Election Commission and state agencies. Please note that:
- contributions under $200 are not reported, and so are not included in totals.
- only contributions from individuals and organizations to candidates are included. Various accounting measures and more exotic contribution types are excluded.
- contributions are matched based on organization and recipient name reported within each election cycle. Contributions using an incorrect or non-standard version of the name may be missed.
- corporate name changes and mergers may cause figures to differ from those of the Center for Responsive Politics.
- organization totals include known subsidiaries of the organization.
For more information, please see our campaign finance methodology page. Lobbyist bundling data is described on our lobbyist bundling methodology page.
Latest FEC Data
covers through committee's December 31, 2012 filing.-
Summary
overview of the committee's finances- Total Raised:
- $256,181
- Total Spent:
- $259,757
- Cash on Hand:
- $107,493
- Debts:
- $0
Standardized Donation Information
covers roughly through Q4 2012. may lag behind FEC section above, as donors and industries are identified by hand.-
Top Recipients
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Lobbying
$2,844,550 SpentFigures are based on lobbying activity reported to the Senate Office of Public Records. Reported dollar amounts are required to be accurate only to the nearest $20,000. For organizations whose primary business is lobbying, we display total income and top clients. For organizations that are not primarily lobbying firms, we display total amount spent on lobbying and top lobbying firms hired.
For more information, please see our lobbying methodology page.
Lobbying on Behalf of eBay Inc
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Names of Lobbyists
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Firm Hired Amount eBay Inc $2,754,550 -
Most Frequently Disclosed Lobbying Issues
- Taxes,
- Consumer Product Safety,
- Copyright, Patent & Trademark,
- Telecommunications,
- Postal,
- Banking,
- Small Business,
- Law Enforcement & Crime,
- Computers & Information Tech,
- Trade
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Most Frequently Disclosed Bills
Bill No. Title H.RES.95 Supporting the preservation of Internet entrepreneurs and small businesses. S.1452 Main Street Fairness Act H.R.2701 Main Street Fairness Act H.R.3179 Marketplace Equity Act of 2011 S.1832 Marketplace Fairness Act S.968 PIPA H.R.1439 Business Activity Tax Simplification Act of 2011 H.R.1653 To amend the Tariff Act of 1930 to increase the dollar amount requirements for articles and merchandise under the administrative exemptions and entry under regulations provisions of that Act. S.RES.309 A resolution supporting the preservation of Internet entrepreneurs and small businesses. H.R.950 Ticket Act -
Recent Lobbying Contracts
Date Registrant Summary May 15, 2013 Emmer Consulting, P.C. (formerly Susan Emmer) Marketplace Fairness Act, S. 743 and H.R. 684 and related issues impacting small businesss. View registration March 4, 2013 Three Bridges Advisors, Inc. Sales tax on internet auctions. View registration
Regulations
Mentioned in 91 dockets; Submitted to 2 docketsAll data is based on documents downloaded from Regulations.gov. The first table shows mentions: all documents that include the name of the company anywhere in the document or document metadata. The second table shows submissions: all documents where the submitter metadata included the company name. Each table shows the top 10 dockets, ranked by number of occurrences.
Matches are based on a search for the company name. Variations in the company name, such as acronyms, nicknames or alternate names may cause documents to be missed. The mention of a company name in a document may be incidental and does not necessarily indicate that the company has any relevance to the document. Company names that are common English words may erroneously match with text that is not referring to the company.
Not all agencies submit public comments to Regulations.gov. For a list of participating and non-participating agencies see here. Agencies that do submit to Regulations.gov have varying levels of accuracy and completeness.
Regulations and public comments can be downloaded in bulk here.
The tables show occurrences of "eBay Inc" in public comments on proposed federal regulations.
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Documents Submitted by the Organization
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Regulations.gov
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Mentions in Document Text
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Regulations.gov
Advisory Committees
1 person on 1 committeeData is based on disclosures required by the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA). Matches are based on the occurrence of the company name in the committee member affiliation. Variations in company names may cause some matches to be missed.
The table shows only the top 10 agencies. To search and download raw records from the complete dataset see the FACA data section.
Table shows employees of "eBay Inc" that sat on federal advisory committees.
View all advisory committee data for eBay Inc