Half.com is a person-to-person online marketplace that was acquired by [eBay](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/ebay) in June 2000. Half.com was founded in 1999 by American entrepreneur Josh Kopelman (Infonautics, Turntide, Comcast Interactive Capital, First Round Capital) and Sunny Balijepalli (who more recently founded ZoomIn.com).[2] As an advertising gimmick, in December of the same year, the company paid the town of Halfway, Oregon US$100,000 and donated 20 new computers to change its name to ""Half.com, Oregon"" for a year.