eBay.com is an online auction and shopping website. A joke is:
“eBay is so useless. I tried to look up lighters and all they had was 13,749 matches.”
The joke was first posted on Twitter on July 18, 2016.
Wikipedia: eBay
eBay Inc. is an American multinational corporation and e-commerce company, providing consumer-to-consumer and business-to-consumer sales services via the Internet. It is headquartered in San Jose, California. eBay was founded by Pierre Omidyar in 1995, and became a notable success story of the dot-com bubble. Today it is a multibillion-dollar business with operations localized in over 30 countries.
The company manages eBay.com, an online auction and shopping website in which people and businesses buy and sell a broad variety of goods and services worldwide.
Twitter
Tom Kardon
@tomkardon
eBay is so useless. I tried to look up lighters and all they had was 13,749 matches.
7:10 PM - 18 Jul 2016
Twitter
MR.FLEXXCELLENT™
@MRFLEXXCELLENT
eBay is so useless. i tried to look up lighters and all they had was 13,749 matches
2:40 PM - 19 Jul 2016
Twitter
Amanda Barbara
@amanda_puhleaz
Mothers text goes a follows: Joke of the day...eBay is so useless. I tried looking up lighters and all I got was 13749 matches...😂🙃😂
6:20 PM - 8 Aug 2016
Reddit—Dadjokes
eBay is so useless… (self.dadjokes)
submitted December 8, 2016 by madazzahatter
I tried to look up lighters and all they had was 13,749 matches.
Reddit—Jokes
eBay is so useless
submitted January 16, 2017 by therap321
I tried to look up lighters and all they had was 13,749 matches.
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