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Kijiji Joins Forces With The eBay Green Team On re+purpose Campaign

Kijiji Provides Users With A Safe Place To Buy Secondhand Goods

Kijiji Joins Forces With The eBay Green Team On re+purpose Campaign

Kijiji Provides Users With A Safe Place To Buy Secondhand Goods

Published 11-05-09

Submitted by eBay Inc.

Kijiji.com, eBay's free, local, family-friendly classified site, today announced a partnership with the eBay Green Team in the third and final phase of its six-week "re+purpose" campaign. From November 4-19 at www.ebay.com/greenteam, eBay and Kijiji will collaborate with do-it-yourself maven, Zem Joaquin of ecofabulous.com, to show consumers that reusing what exists in the world today is not only cool and affordable, it's environmentally friendly. Kijiji offers millions of customers a quick, safe, easy way for local buyers and sellers to extend the useful life of large, hard-to-ship household items, like cabinets, bed frames, couches and much more. When consumers decide to upgrade, they’re often unsure about what to do with an old item that is still in great shape. Kijiji allows buyers and sellers in the same area to connect and give items a second life, frequently keeping products from ending up in a landfill.

"We are excited to be working with the eBay Green Team and ecofabulous.com to educate consumers on the ease of shopping sustainably," said Martin Herbst, general manager for Kijiji U.S. "Kijiji.com has always been about providing consumers with a safe, family-friendly marketplace to buy and sell secondhand items. Through the re+purpose campaign, Kijiji, eBay and ecofabulous are demonstrating how easy it is to live a green lifestyle by giving used items a second life - right in their own backyard."

"The eBay Green Team brings together thousands of eBay users who, like me, are shopping pre-owned on eBay not only because it's chic and affordable - but because they know that the greenest product is the one that already exists," said Joaquin. "eBay - and their local classifieds site Kijiji - both have millions of great vintage treasures that, with a little TLC, can be turned into something totally unique and fabulous."

The eBay Green Team - comprised of over 100,000 eBay consumers and employees from more than 25 countries - is committed to encouraging smarter, greener shopping choices. The community draws inspiration from some of the ways in which the eBay marketplace is intrinsically green.

Kijiji users can take part in the re+purpose campaign, by participating in the eBay Green Team’s Creative Reuse Competition, which is being held from November 4 - 19. The competition is a national call for the best examples of DIY projects - made from reused items - from around the country. The winner-to be juried by Zem and eBay- will not only win $1,000 to spend on eBay and a two-hour eco-consultation with Zem, but additionally be featured as a Creative Reuse Expert for eBay. For the duration of the collaboration, www.ebay.com/greenteam will feature custom content from Zem to serve as inspiration and will reward new and returning eBay Green Team members with $1 donated on their behalf to Global Green USA, the American affiliate of President Gorbachev's Green Cross International, a leading environmental organization focused on fostering a global value shift to reconnect humanity with the environment by creating healthy, affordable green homes, schools and communities.

About Kijiji
Kijiji (www.kijiji.com), which means "village" in Swahili, is a free, local classifieds website that makes it easy to buy or sell everything from clothes to cars, find a job, adopt a pet, rent an apartment, and do so much more, right in your own neighborhood. Kijiji is currently available in more than 1,000 cities and countries around the world, and the site launched in 220 cities in the U.S. on June 29, 2007. In addition to the U.S., Kijiji has online communities in Canada, Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Japan and Taiwan. Kijiji is part of a broader eBay Classifieds family including Gumtree, Marktplaats, Mobile.de and Loquo, which extends the reach of eBay Classifieds to more than 20 countries.

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