Why is there a link to Burger King on Ebay?

[TommyVercetti]

If you go to ebay.com and look at the very bottom, you will see a link to Burger King's website. It's advertised where different services are advertised lBM, Andale and what not. I don't see why Burger King has to be there. If it is advertisement, then I don't see it getting noticed very easily.

 

[Eli]

Probably because they're a sponsor.

 

[T3C]

Originally posted by: Eli
Probably because they're a sponsor.

 

[AznMaverick]

maybe you can buy a burger from ebay. or maybe you can even buy a burger king...

 

[Walleye]

Originally posted by: AznMaverick
maybe you can buy a burger from ebay. or maybe you can even buy a burger king...

who pays shipping?

 

[ISAslot]

Burger king gets their meat from ebay

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: ISAslot
Burger king gets their meat from ebay

 

[chowderhead]

There was an article on this a while back. Ebay is a top ten visited shopping site/ website in general. I would say it gets millions of hits every month from unique surfers. They can boost their earnings by selling ads/banners on their site. However, they do not want to alienate seller by advertising/linking ad to 3rd party sellers i.e. cars or dell computers or whatever. If ebay started to link ads to companies that compete with sellers on ebay, they might lose more business from the backlash then they would from the ad revenues. So, they sell ads to fast food joints or advertise movies rather than companies that might compete against sellers.

 

[JetsFanatic]

so you can have it your way