Bidorbuy

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bidorbuy
Type	Private company
Founded	1999
Headquarters	Johannesburg, South Africa
Key people	'Andy Higgins'
Industry	Auctions
Products	Online auction hosting
Parent	'bidorbuy.com Inc'
Website	www.bidorbuy.co.za

Bidorbuy is South Africa's largest internet auction website,^[1] run by bidorbuy (Pty) Ltd. Andy Higgins founded the site in August 1999 when the South African site was first launched.^[2] During this period the company also launched or was in the process of launching a number of other internet auction websites around the world including India, Australia, Israel, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Italy and Spain. Following the Dot-com bubble of 2000 the company consolidated its operations retaining only the South African, Indian and Australian websites. The Australian website closed in 2001 and the Indian website was acquired by Baazee.com (subsequently purchased by EBay in 2004 to become eBay India ^[3]) now leaving the South African site as the only independent site operated by the company.

In January 2007 the company announced it had bought a 22% stake in the South African online price comparison service website, Jump Shopping. ^[4]

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