根据以下内容回答题：What is eBay?The simple answer is that it is a global trading platform. where nearly any-one can trade practically anything ．People can sell and buy all kinds of products and goods，in-cluding cars，movies and DVDs，sporting goods，travel tickets，musical instruments，clothes and shoes——the list goes on and on． The idea came from Peter Omidyar， who was born in Paris and moved to Washingtonwhen he was still a child．At high school，he became very interested in computer programming and after graduating from Tuft University in l988，he worked for the nex．t few years as a com-Duter engineer．In his free time he started eBay as a kind of hobby，at first offering the service free bv word of mouth．By l996 there was so much traffic on the website that he had to upgrade and he began charging a fee to members．Joined by a friend，Peter Skoll，and in l998 by his capable CEO，Meg Whitman，he has never looked back.Even in the．great coru crashes of the 1ate l990s，eBay has gone from strength to strength．it is now one of the ten most Visited onlineshopping websites on the Internet． eBay sells connections，not goods，putting buyer and seller into contact with each other.All vou have to do is take an e．photo，write a description，fill out a sales form. and you’re in business；the worid is your market place．Of course for each item sold eBay gets a percentage and that is agreat deal of money．Every day there are more than sixteen million items listed on eBay and eighty percent of the items are sold.

We leam from the text that eBay provides people with__________.