Traders´Dreams

More than 200 million people use eBay, the largest Internet auction house worldwide. Each day, hundreds more join those ranks, ready to change their lives and find happiness in the world of virtual commerce.
Filmmakers Marcus Vetter and Stefan Tolz spent more than a year observing people in their attempts to fulfill their eBay dreams: in Borna in Saxony, Germany, on the Isle of Skye in Scotland, in a village in the Mexican desert – the idea of a direct marketplace where anyone can buy and sell at anytime is popular throughout the world.

In California, we meet "Uncle Griff," the legendary host of the eBay Radio Show and author of the eBay Bible, who embodies the PR strategy of the concern like nobody else. The camera follows Griff during eBay Live, the annual world congress of the "community" and thus provides an informative look behind the scenes. In Hangzhou on the east coast of China, a successful businessman named Jack Ma and his company Alibaba have already eclipsed the Chinese division of eBay – and now he wants to compete with the Americans on the world market.

"Traders’ Dreams" interweaves personal eBay stories with a global finance thriller in a surprising and entertaining fashion. It's about the philosophy behind the "eBay system" and how eBay effects the future of the trading business globally. How close are we to realizing the phenomenal dream of a system in which everyone can win?

Marcus Vetter (*1967) has an academic background in Economics and Media Communication. He has directed numerous prime time documentaries and received the Adolf Grimme Award - ‘Germany’s Emmy’ - three times. His feature documentary The Tunnel has been one of the best-selling German documentaries in recent years.