Tens of thousands of people now earn a primary or secondary living on the eBay.co.uk site – proof of an incredible entrepreneurial spirit and the power of the internet to transform lives. It’s the eBay community that pioneered the e-commerce phenomenon and last year alone, you traded approximately £30billion in goods around the world.

Next week we’ll announce a series of exciting changes, helping to create an even more vibrant and safer marketplace, with new opportunities for sellers and buyers.

There are also some changes within eBay. Meg Whitman has led eBay globally for ten years, during which time the community has grown to hundreds of millions of people. On 31st March she’ll be retiring from that role and John Donahoe will become the new President of the eBay Inc group of companies.

And after six years of focusing on the UK marketplace, Doug McCallum is moving to a role leading Europe-wide. He is being succeeded by Mark Lewis. Mark’s been working with eBay in the UK since 2004, leading teams that look after buyer and seller experience, customer and PowerSeller support, and eBay for Charity. He’s a passionate eBayer, selling old music, forgotten toys and regretted purchases.

We look forward to telling you more about the new changes and to introducing Mark. There’ll be a Q&A session on the Community boards in the coming week, where we hope to hear your thoughts on what we can do to keep eBay as your favourite place to buy and sell on the internet.

Regards,

The eBay Team