From a Broken Laser Pointer to an Online Auction Giant "EBay makes money by brokering deals. But what happens when buyers and sellers cut out the middleman and deal direct? At eBay you search for the item you want. But you can also search the Web as a whole. In the long run, we won't need two separate levels of search. Eventually we will use the fabric of cyberspace itself, not eBay, as our switchboard.
But chances are eBay will somehow still be making money off the deal."