eBay Instant Sale First Generation iPad Offers Climb 800% in Anticipation of Friday's iPad 2 Launch

eBay EBAY, the world's largest online marketplace and leader in mobile commerce, today announced that its easy-to-use electronics trade-in platform, eBay Instant Sale, has made more than 22,000 offers on first generation iPads since Apple's AAPL announcement of iPad 2 last Wednesday. This represents a 796% increase compared with the previous week.

Since eBay launched Instant Sale in October 2010, roughly 38,000 iPad offers have been made in total compared to only 1,600 offers made for other tablets.