eBay reported financial results for its quarter ended September 30, 2005. Gross profit was $905.1 million in Q3-05, or 82 percent of net revenues. Consolidated net revenues were $1.106 billion, up 37 percent year over year, and operating income was $356.7 million, up 40 percent year over year.

"We saw very strong growth across every part of our business in Q3," said Meg Whitman, President and CEO of eBay. "It's wonderful to see so much strength in our two largest marketplaces, the U.S. and Germany. We're excited about the great momentum eBay and PayPal have going into the holiday shopping season."

Gross Merchandise Volume (GMV), the total value of all successfully closed items on eBay's trading platforms, was $10.8 billion, representing a 30 percent year-over-year increase from the $8.3 billion reported in Q3-04. New listings totaled a record 458.6 million in Q3-05, 32 percent higher than the 348.0 million new listings reported in Q3-04.

eBay's fixed price trading contributed approximately $3.4 billion or 32 percent of total GMV during Q3-05, primarily from eBay's "Buy It Now" feature. At the end of Q3-05, eBay hosted approximately 336,000 stores worldwide, with approximately 193,000 stores hosted on the U.S. site.

eBay said based on Q3-05 GMV, the following categories delivered $1 billion or more in worldwide annualized GMV:

• eBay Motors at $14.1 billion
  
  
• Clothing & Accessories at $3.1 billion
  
  
• Consumer Electronics at $3.0 billion
  
  
• Computers at $3.0 billion
  
  
• Books/Movies/Music at $2.5 billion
  
  
• Home & Garden at $2.4 billion
  
  
• Sports at $2.1 billion
  
  
• Collectibles at $2.1 billion
  
  
• Jewelry & Watches at $1.6 billion
  
  
• Business & Industrial at $1.5 billion
  
  
• Toys at $1.5 billion
  
  
• Cameras & Photo at $1.3 billion
  
  

Cumulative confirmed registered users at the end of Q3-05 totaled 168.1 million, representing a 35 percent increase over the 125.0 million users reported at the end of Q3-04.

Active users, the number of users on the eBay platform who bid, bought, or listed an item within the previous 12-month period, increased to a record 68.0 million in Q3-05, a 32 percent increase over the 51.7 million active users reported in the same period a year ago.

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