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Filed Pursuant to Rule 424(b)(3) and (c)
File Number 333-88205
PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT NO. 1 DATED December 20, 1999
to Prospectus Dated October 27, 1999
eBAY INC.
663,682 SHARES
COMMON STOCK
This prospectus supplement supplements the prospectus dated October 27,
1999 of eBay Inc. relating to the public offering, which is not being
underwritten, and sale by selling stockholders described below, including
donees, pledgees, transferees and other successors in interest that receive
shares of our common stock as a gift, pledge, partnership distribution or other
non-sale transfer, of 663,682 shares of our common stock that had been held by
former stockholders of Butterfield & Butterfield Auctioneers Corporation. This
prospectus supplement contains information on ownership of shares of our common
stock following a sale of shares of our common stock from certain Irving and
Varda Rabin trusts to the Irving and Varda Rabin 1992 Revocable Trust, and a
subsequent gift of such shares to the Blintz Foundation on December 16, 1999.
This prospectus supplement should be read in conjunction with the prospectus,
and this prospectus supplement is qualified by reference to the prospectus
except to the extent that the information provided by this prospectus
supplement supersedes the information contained in the prospectus.
SELLING STOCKHOLDERS
The table on page 21 of the prospectus setting forth information concerning
the selling stockholders is superseded by the following table:
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Shares Being
Selling Stockholder Number Offered
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Bernard A. Osher Revocable Trust Dated March 8, 1988........................ 373,241(1) 104,661(2)
Bernard A. Osher Foundation................................................. 373,000 333,209
Irving and Varda Rabin, Trustees U/T/A dated 2/26/99, fbo Irving Rabin Trust 211,190 79,676
Varda and Irving Rabin, Trustees U/T/A dated 2/26/99, fbo Varda Rabin Trust 211,190 79,676
The Irving and Varda Rabin 1992 Revocable Trust............................. 39,679 34,659
John Gallo.................................................................. 27,602 13,801
The Blintz Foundation....................................................... 18,000 18,000
(1) Includes 46,221 shares related to the sale of 111 Potrero Partners, LLC and 66,927 shares related to
the sale of HBJ Partners, LLC.
(2) Includes 42,754 shares related to the sale of 111 Potrero Partners, LLC and 61,907 shares related to
the sale of HBJ Partners, LLC.
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