Value Chain for ebay?

Question

hi

i need to find a value chain for ebay... i been looking net and cant find it.. can someone tell me where i can find it

Answer 1

Can you define the phase 'value chain'? Your use of it as an "item" you can find does not fit porter's model.

Porter's basic model describes an industrial organization buying raw materials and transforming these into physical products. It can be extended to someone who buys a product and makes changes thus adding "value" to the item for resale. (Such as an airbrush artist who buys a tee-shirt, sprays on a design and then sells the result for higher than the cost of the T-Shirt.)

If you want to be part of the "value chain" you need only find a product to create, and being buying the materials to produce it.