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Old 07-06-2012, 05:37 AM  
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Originally Posted by longdongsilver View Post
Yes, even compared to ebay, if you combine the alexa numbers for every filelocker i think they would surpass ebay by a long way, along with that a lot of people are just browsing ebay and buying nothing, bidding and losing etc etc - running costs of ebay to be deducted.

These lockers have recurring memberships for every month even if you don't visit for days, weeks or months that recurring billing takes place . I would seriously love to know the numbers for that. Paypals biggest single business is quite possibly filelockers.
I think you should look at the facts before you make assumptions.

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Q1 2012 FINANCIAL METRICS

PayPal revenues represented 40 percent of eBay Inc. revenues in Q1 2012.
PayPal revenues for Q1 2012 were $1.3 billion, growing 32 percent year over year.
PayPal?s international business generated $672 million in revenue in Q1 2012, and international revenue growth accelerated to 40 percent year over year.
For the second quarter in a row, PayPal?s international revenue represented more than half of PayPal?s total revenue, at 51 percent.
PayPal?s net Total Payment Volume, the total value of transactions in Q1 2012 was $34 billion, up 24 percent year over year.
Merchant Services net Total Payment Volume was $22 billion in Q1 2012, up 28 percent year over year.
Merchant Services net Total Payment Volume as percent of net Total Payment Volume was 66 percent in Q1 2012.
On-eBay net Total Payment Volume was $11 billion in Q1 2012, or 34 percent of net Total Payment Volume.
PayPal transacted $4,300 in Total Payment Volume every second in Q1 2012.
PayPal customers made 555 million transactions in Q1 2012, or 6 million transactions per day.
PayPal maintains a very low loss rate ? 0.26 percent or approximately one fourth of one percent.
Taken from https://www.paypal-media.com/about
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