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eBags is an online retailer of handbags, luggage, backpacks, laptop bags, and accessories based in Greenwood Village, Colorado near Denver. The main website, eBags.com, carries bags and accessories from more than 500 brands including Samsonite, JanSport, Kate Spade, Fossil, and Nike. eBags also operates both Handbags.com and the eBags Corporate Sales site and offers its own private label products under the name The eBags Brand. == History == Five people founded eBags in the late spring of 1998: Jon Nordmark, Peter Cobb, Frank Steed, Andy Youngs, and Eliot Cobb. The first four worked more than 50 years collectively at Samsonite. Eliot Cobb worked as VP of Finance at Wherehouse Music, a national music retailer. The company purchased two domains, eLuggage.com and eBags.com, not knowing which domain they would use. Ultimately they chose eBags.com because it lent more opportunity to expand into multiple categories.〔http://www.travel-goods.org/travel-goods-showcase/clips/tgs-vol34no2-2009-tga-award-peter-cobb.pdf〕 The website eBags.com launched on March 1, 1999 with seven brands including Samsonite, JanSport, and Skyway luggage. The focus was primarily on luggage due to the backgrounds of the founders. From summer 1999, eBags' starting experiencing rapid growth. Much of the early success of eBags can be attributed to three strategies: a drop ship model, customer reviews, and an outsourced call center. eBags drop-shipped most products direct from manufacturers to consumers. This reduced the company's inventory risk. The company still drop-ships products, but a portion of the business has moved to an inventory model which has allowed them to work with a wider selection of brands. In addition to lower inventory costs, eBags lowered operating costs by outsourcing their call center outsourced to the Philippines, although today it is back in the U.S. Finally, the company focused on garnering customer reviews which was a relatively new concept in e-commerce in 1999.〔http://www.smh.com.au/small-business/entrepreneurs-ecommerce-success-in-the-bag-20130407-2hetz.html〕 Following the website launch, three events caused cash to dip: the "dot com bomb" of 2000, the recession of 2001, and the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. September 11 specifically caused eBags' luggage sales to slow to 2% growth for the next six months. To recharge the growth, eBags diversified into handbags and purses, business cases, sport bags, and backpacks. This allowed the company to rely on more daily use brands like Kathy Van Zeeland, Tignanello, Perlina, Stone Mountain, and Eastpak. In October 2004, eBags launched eBags.co.uk with the intent of expanding further into Europe at a later time. The eBags UK offices were located in Cambridge, England. That year marked eBags' expansion of its brand representation to more than 600 total in the United States and Europe. eBags.co.uk was later closed in December 2008 and the company focus returned to growing the main site, eBags.com.〔http://blog.shop.org/2009/02/23/qa-with-ebags-peter-cobb-on-why-they-shut-down-their-uk-site/〕 By the end of 2008, eBags passed $100 million in annual gross orders. In Fall 2011, prior to the start of holiday season, eBags moved its call center operations back to the U.S. They currently use in-house employees to handle calls, and contracted with HGS Ltd. to handle overflow. The shift allowed the company to shave about 34% off its customer care expenses because the U.S.-based customer service representatives were able to resolve customer complaints more efficiently. American customer service reps shaved about a minute and 20 seconds from each call and resolved customer issues on the first contact 80% of the time, compared with 69% for calls handled in the Philippines.〔http://www.internetretailer.com/2012/01/19/ebags-brings-its-call-center-house〕 Today eBags.com continues to sell bags from over 500 brands but now also offers accessories including jewelry, hats, scarves, and camping gear. As of 2015, they have sold over 23 million bags and have over 3 million reviews on the website. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「EBags.com」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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