Introduction

Electronic commerce, commonly known as e-commerce or eCommerce, consists of the buying and selling of products or services over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks. The amount of trade conducted electronically has grown dramatically since the wide introduction of the Internet. A wide variety of commerce is conducted in this way, including things such as electronic funds transfer, supply chain management, internet marketing, online transaction processing, electronic data interchange (EDI), automated inventory management systems, and automated data collection systems. Electronic commerce also uses electronic communications technology such as the extranets, email, e-books, databases, and mobile phones. For this project, we have chosen to examine and evaluate on two e-commerce websites which are eBay.com and Amazon.com. We will study their purposes, features, key characteristics, designs, strengths and weaknesses of their websites.