eBay posted an announcement on its UK site noting its 10-year anniversary. The company wrote, "We'd like to take this opportunity to thank all our buyers and sellers for your business over the past 10 years and we look forward to providing you with a great place to buy and sell for the next 10 years."

eBay.co.uk has sold over 950 million items in the past decade. The first ever eBay.co.uk sale was a 3-track CD from German rockers The Scorpions that sold for 2.89 pounds, and of the 123,000 British businesses now trading on eBay, over 170 turn over more than a million pounds a year.

eBay UK also noted that over 10.5 million pounds had been raised for more than 3,500 charities since the launch of eBay for Charity in 2006. (Earlier this month, eBay UK launched the eBay for Charity program that enables eBay users to donate £1 to a featured charity when buying an item on the site.)

eBay UK's MD Mark Lewis said, "eBay.co.uk has come a long way in the past ten years. From our beginnings as an auction site, over half the items for sale today are available to "Buy Now." Likewise, whilst eBay.co.uk was once dominated by second hand items, the fastest growth is in sales of new products at knock-down prices. And, these days, you're just as likely to buy from a business as a private seller, with an increasing number of entrepreneurs and established retail brands like Schuh, Littlewoods and Argos all selling on eBay.co.uk."

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