| June 14th, 2006: eBay
India, the pulse of stylish net-savvy Indian consumers, announced the launch of
its maiden fashion & lifestyle contest 'eBay India STYLE DIVA 2006', today.
The contest will see three leading Diva's of Bollywood - the glamorous Kareena
Kapoor, the sensuous Bipasha Basu and magnificent Priyanka Chopra compete for
the coveted title of 'eBay India STYLE DIVA' to be decided by eBay India's growing
online community through an online poll. eBay India, which is fast emerging
as the most popular online destination for fashion and lifestyle products, is
also running a promotion giving five lucky winners a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity
to meet the diva of their dreams at the award function finale to be hosted in
August in Mumbai. To participate, all one needs to do is to log onto www.eBay.in
<http://www.eBay.in> and shop or sell any product from the various lifestyle
categories using PaisaPay. After casting your vote for your favourite Diva, five
lucky winners stand a chance to meet the eBay India Style Diva in person! Adding
another dimension to this sizzling line-up of Bollywood beauties, eBay India buyers
will also win special merchandise of the eBay India STYLE DIVA contest for each
and every purchase made during the promotion. eBay reveals an increasing
demand for lifestyle products bought online, as it currently averages the sale
of a piece of jewellery every 6 minutes, a mobile handset every 7 minutes, a piece
of fashion apparel every 13 minutes and a MP3 player every 17 minutes! If that's
not all eBay India, India's largest online marketplace offers a wide range of
products listed on its site spread across 2500 categories including, Apparel,
Jewellery, fashion accessories, Health & Beauty, sunglasses, Bollywood, Books,
& Magazines, Cars & Bikes, Computers, Electronics, Cameras & Optics,
Art & Antiques Movies, Music, , Gifts, Home, Mobile Phones, Real Estate, Toys
& Baby Products, Travel etc. On any given day, there are over 100,000 live
listings on the site with over 3000 new listings being added daily.
About
eBay India
eBay India (www.eBay.in), India's leading online marketplace, is
India's biggest online trading community where anyone can sell or buy almost anything.
eBay India is a trading platform offering auctions, fixed price and classifieds
modes of person-to-person trading. There are a wide range of products listed on
eBay India in an array of categories including Apparels & Accessories, Beauty
& Health, Bollywood Memorabilia, Books & Magazines, Cameras & Optics,
Cars & Bikes, Coins & Stamps, Computers & Peripherals, Consumer Electronics,
Fitness & Sports, Home, Tools & Appliances, Jewellery & Watches, Mobiles
& Accessories, Movies & Videos, Music & Instruments, Services &
Real Estate, Toy, Games & Baby, Travel, Tickets & Vouchers, Video Games
& Everything Else. eBay India is a 100% subsidiary of eBay Inc., The World's
Online Marketplace®.
About eBay.com
Founded in September 1995,
eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) is The World's Online Marketplace® for the sale of goods
and services by a diverse community of individuals and small businesses. Today,
the eBay community includes more than a hundred million registered members from
around the world. People spend more time on eBay than any other online site, making
it the most popular shopping destination on the Internet.
People from all
over the world buy and sell on eBay. Currently, eBay has local sites that serve
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India,
Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand Poland, the Philippines, Singapore, South
Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
In addition, eBay has a presence in Latin America through its investment MercadoLibre.com.
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For further information, please contact: Deepa Thomas/Sneha
Deshpande
Gaurav Bhaskar /Mythili Rao
eBay India
Vaishnavi Corporate
Communication
91-22-6669000
91-22-5658787
dthomas@ebay.com/sndeshpande@ebay.com
gbhaskar@vccpl.com/mrao@vccpl.com
www.ebay.in/mediacentre Regards
Anushri
Dubey
Vaishnavi Corporate Communications
148, 2nd Floor Army& Navy Bldg,
M G Road Mumbai 400001
Tel: 022-66568753
Fax: 022-66568788
Email: adubey@vccpl.com
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