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eBay Live is a new interactive shopping experience,
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it's connecting buyers and sellers
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and just bringing new community together
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and offering a brand new shopping experience.
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Well, I've got my guest here,
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and his name is Patrick Gendron.
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He is the lead over at eBay Canada.
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Thanks for joining us today.
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Thanks for having me, Mike.
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So I understand you are in my hometown right now,
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Vancouver, British Columbia.
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We've got a fan expo going here.
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And you guys are here to talk all about eBay Live.
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I think most of our listeners are probably familiar with eBay.
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I've been using it for years.
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Myself, you guys have been around
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since the beginning of the internet, it seems.
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So what is eBay Live for the listeners and viewers out there?
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Yeah, we're really excited to be launching eBay Live.
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It's a new interactive live stream shopping experience.
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We've launched a number of different markets,
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but really excited to bring it to Canadians today.
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And how long has this been going in the United States, for example?
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eBay Live has been available to shoppers
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for a little over two years now.
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But in Canada, we just launched on February 11th.
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And yeah, exciting times just trying to bring Canadians
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to the whole experience.
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So you're in Vancouver.
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Tell us what people can see at the fan expo
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and what you guys are doing there.
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Yeah, at FanExpo, we've got a lot of great things happening
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People come to eBay Booth, the exhibit,
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just to take part, have fun, enjoy the fandom,
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and all the great experiences.
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We've got the typical things like our Booth.
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But with eBay Live, we've set up a whole studio experience.
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And we're going to bring on some great celebrity talents.
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They're going to see the Phelps twins.
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Those are the Weasley twins from Harry Potter, Sean Aston
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also joining us, who was famous in The Lord of the Rings
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So lots and lots of great activations.
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And people can join us here at Vancouver FanExpo.
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But also tune in on eBay.ca.
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Just click into eBay Live and join us on stream.
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And is eBay Live just kind of for collectibles
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How's that all working?
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No, it's really just a way for us to bring the community together
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and do what people are already doing on eBay.
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It's shopping for the things that they love,
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what they're collecting, everything from trading cards
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to comics, toys, fashion, clothing.
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Just about anything that people have come to shop on on eBay,
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you can find it on a livestream for it.
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And can anyone use eBay Live as far as selling?
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How does that all work?
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Right now, we're really trying to align ourselves
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and partner with the sellers that we trust
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and people have come to trust on eBay.
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But that group of sellers is growing every day.
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We're bringing on more sellers and partnering
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with more sellers every day.
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So you're going to see that grow and grow.
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What are you most excited about?
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What do auction items?
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For me, it's really about the trading cards and comics.
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I get really excited about seeing that.
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We've got comic traders coming on later today.
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And they're bringing in Jamie Tindle,
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who's a famous artist here in Canada.
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And that's the really exciting part for me
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to be able to just see everybody in the community,
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talk to one another, bid on the items I'm interested in.
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And that gets me going.
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So just to see everybody fired up in the passion in the room.
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And as far as the auction experience itself,
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anyone can sign up and bid on these items?
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Yes, anybody can sign up as long as you're
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over the age of 18 and have access to an eBay account.
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You can absolutely just jump right into eBay live stream.
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In order to bid, you do have to have a credit card
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on file or a payment method.
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But then you're good to go and join in.
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So you're doing the fan expo here in Vancouver.
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Are there other events that you have coming across Canada as well?
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Yes, actually this weekend was great.
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It really was an opportunity presented itself
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for us to launch here in Vancouver, but also in Toronto.
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We've got the Toronto Collector Super Show,
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which launched yesterday.
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And just being able to launch coast to coast
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is an absolutely amazing story for us
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just to bring the whole community together.
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Again, people in Toronto tuning in, people in Vancouver.
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But really with eBay live, the beauty is it doesn't matter
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You can tune into a live stream and take in the fun remotely.
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And for the listeners and viewers out there,
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obviously you can look at this through a desktop.
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Is it available in the mobile platforms at the bottom?
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Mobile is the best experience in my opinion.
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But yes, you can access live through your desktop,
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through your mobile.
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Just make sure you download the app.
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And then on your home screen, you'll
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see eBay live right at the top.
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And then you see, once you click in,
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a whole host of events lined up for this weekend,
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but also future events as well.
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So it looks like it's starting off with collectible items.
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Will you branch off into other things, like cars, for example?
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Right now, it is collectibles.
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I mean, eBay's been the home of collectibles
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and the collector community's very bust here in Canada.
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So it just presented itself as a logical point
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for us to launch with.
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But we'll be branching off into new categories.
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We've got a great lineup of fashion sellers coming.
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And some other interesting categories in the works, too.
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I don't want to say too much.
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But yes, definitely a lot of interesting categories.
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I don't know about cars just yet, but definitely
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on the horizon, I think.
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Karthik, what are some of the items
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you have up for auction at the Vancouver Fan Expo?
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Yeah, we've got some really great items lined up.
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We just auctioned off a Maclin celebrity, the Rookie
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I've really coveted Rookie card for one of the rising stars
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in hockey, also representing Team Canada.
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And then we've got a Charizard card, a PSA 7 of a card
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that was released in 2006, a really rare card coming up,
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valued at around $10,000.
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That's going to be auctioned off later today.
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And it's all starting at $1.
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So it's really just to get everybody in, excited,
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everyone taking part in bidding, and really getting in
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I'll give you $2 for that card.
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Yeah, well, I don't know if $2 is going to make it.
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But it's still a bid, and it's going to get registered.
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But also some really great merch, right?
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We've got Sean Aston signing items.
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You're going to see Jamie Tindall, a whole host
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of other celebrities coming up, giving away items,
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and also signing items for people in attendance.
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But they'll all also be auctioned off as well.
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We're talking with Carthick, all about eBay live.
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This is launching here in Canada now at the Vancouver Fan
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Expo, and heading off to Toronto as well.
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I want to thank you for joining us on the program today.
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Thank you for having me, and it was a pleasure.
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And again, join us on eBay.ca, eBay Live.
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Lots of great events still coming.
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If you can join us here in Vancouver,
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lots of fun to be had, and also in Toronto,
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we'd love to see everyone make it out.
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