£2.89

The cost of the first item sold on eBay’s UK site, a three track CD from German rock outfit The Scorpions.

14

The number of gifts bought on eBay each second last Christmas.

£103,000

The amount paid for Margaret Thatcher’s handbag.

£81,100.01

One eBay user paid this amount for Princess Beatrice’s pretzel-shaped royal wedding hat with proceeds going to Unicef and Children in Crisis.

7

Every seven seconds a pair of shoes is sold via a mobile device.

19m

Over one third of Britain’s adult population visit eBay every month.

25m

The number of businesses and consumers selling products on eBay.

£61,000

How much the skeleton of a woolly mammoth sold for in 2004.

$4.9m

A Gulfstream II Jet was the most expensive item ever sold on eBay and fetched this sum in 2001.