Celebrate the festival of lights with great deals on eBay India

Company News

MUMBAI, October 9

eBay India, India’s leading online marketplace, invites you to celebrate the festival of lights at India’s biggest online Diwali Sale. Enjoy gifting and shopping on the biggest online Diwali sale and win assured gifts, as eBay India offers a wide range of products across categories with FREE SHIPPING to brighten your Diwali! The biggest online Diwali sale offer is available on eBay India (www.ebay.in), until October 23, 2006.

Enjoy Diwali the eBay way and gift your friends and family from the wide range of exciting products on offer ranging from jewellery and technology gadgets to more traditional Diwali items. Bid on the exciting One Paisa Auctions on Jewellery and besides your winning bid, you win a 10 gm silver coin. Choose from thousands of Budget Electronics priced below Rs. 1500 ranging from remote controlled cars to web cameras to sleek pen drives to digital cameras and win a cool eBay Coffee Mug. Buy a snazzy Cell Phone and win either a 512 USB drive or a stylish Swatch watch. Enjoy the guaranteed gifts on offer for all buyers on the showcased products on eBay India during the Diwali sale.

Shop on eBay India and get up to 25 % off on Adora and 20% on D’dmas branded jewellery and 30% on Allen Solly and Peter England shirts! And that’s not all, eBay India also offers traditional items like different types of exotic Diyas, handmade and ethnic Toran, auspicious Pooja thalis, attractive gift hampers and candles by Dimple Kapadia! Log on to www.ebay.in/diwali to grab this exciting festival bonanza!

Top Picks on eBay India this Diwali:

1. Jewellery One Paisa Auctions

2. Budget Electronics

3. Premium & Budget Cell Phones

4. Branded Jewellery

5. Home Appliances

6. Branded Men’s Shirts

7. Candles

8. Diyas, Torans and Pooja Thalis

9. Gift Hampers

10. Festive Kurtis

Deepa Thomas, Company Spokesperson, eBay India said, “Many casual internet users make their first ever online purchase during Diwali. Overall, Diwali and the festive season witnesses an increase in online buyers, primarily shopping online for gifts. The most popular categories that have received an overwhelming response in the festive season are consumer electronics, digital cameras, jewellery &, mobile phones. To celebrate this Diwali with our community and ensure that this Diwali is special to all, we are offering attractive gifts and discounts across these categories.”

eBay India offers products across 2500 categories which includes Apparel & Accessories, Books & Magazines, Cameras & Optics, Cars & Bikes, Coins & Stamps, Computers & Peripherals, Consumer Electronics, Fitness & Sports, Health & Beauty, Hobbies & Collectibles, Home, Décor & Furnishings, Jewellery, Kitchen & Home Appliances. Mobiles & Accessories, Movies & Music,

Musical Instruments, Services & Real Estate, Tools & Hardware , Toys, Games & Baby, Travel, Tickets & Vouchers, Video & Computer Games, Watches and Everything Else. 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 Apparel & Accessories, Books & Magazines, Cameras & Optics, Cars & Bikes, Coins & Stamps, Computers & Peripherals, Consumer Electronics, Fitness & Sports, Health & Beauty, Hobbies & Collectibles, Home, Décor & Furnishings, Jewellery, and Kitchen & Home Appliances. Mobiles & Accessories, Movies & Music, Musical Instruments, Services & Real Estate, Tools & Hardware, Toys, Games & Baby, Travel, Tickets & Vouchers, Video & Computer Games, Watches and Everything Else. eBay India is a 100% subsidiary of eBay Inc.

About eBay

Founded in 1995, eBay created a powerful platform for the sale of goods and services by a passionate community of individuals and businesses. On any given day, there are millions of items across thousands of categories for sale on eBay. eBay enables trade on a local, national and international basis with customized sites in markets around the world. Through an array of services, such as its payment solution provider PayPal, eBay is enabling global e-commerce for an ever-growing online community.

eBay is The World's Online Marketplace®.

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For further information, please contact:

Deepa Thomas/Sneha Deshpande Mythili Rao / Anushri Dubey

eBay India Vaishnavi Corporate Communication

91-22-6669000 91-22-5658787

dthomas@ebay.com/sndeshpande@ebay.com mrao@vccpl.com/adubey@v