# eBay Offloads Classified Ads Business for Nearly $10 Billion: Business Casual

Published 2020-07-24 · Updated 2026-03-19 · Retail on MarketScale
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> Powered by RedCircle Online shopping fixture eBay has continued slimming operations, selling its classified ads business to Norwegian retailer Adevinta for nearly $10 billion. This is the latest in a line of similar moves for the company, which split with PayPal in 2015 and offloaded StubHub to Viagogo in 2019. On this Business Casual snippet,…

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Online shopping fixture eBay has continued slimming operations, selling its classified ads business to Norwegian retailer Adevinta for nearly $10 billion.

This is the latest in a line of similar moves for the company, which split with PayPal in 2015 and offloaded StubHub to Viagogo in 2019.

On this [Business Casual](https://marketscale.com/industries/podcast-network/business-casual/) snippet, hosts Daniel Litwin and Tyler Kern highlight what this could mean not only for eBay, but for the wider world of ecommerce and advertising on online retail platforms.

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