Has eBay Finally Found Its Niche In The Circular Economy?
5 min readSep 13, 2022
In 1995, a random shopper purchased a broken laser pointer from a fledgling online auction site and, unbeknown to him at the time, became eBay’s first-ever buyer. The story of this mystery shopper became part of the folklore behind one of the Internet’s biggest and most loved brands.
Twenty years later, Mark Fraser was identified as the legend who bid $14.83 to buy…