Archive for February, 2006

Configure your blog for Edgeio, post an item and it gets listed, for free. The over/under on eBay buying Edgeio is 6 months.
TechCrunch:

After much anticipation and a period of being available to a private audience the team at Edgeio took the covers off of their creation tonight and launched to the general public. […]

sfGate:
Google Inc. has expanded its online payment service so that users can buy and sell everything from bicycle brakes to Beanie Babies through its Web site, posing an immediate challenge to eBay Inc.
Google added the payment service to its nascent Google Base classified listings Friday, an expected move that nonetheless sends shockwaves through the […]

I have witnessed this first hand. I was losing sale after sale (daily) to sellers that listed an item for $9.99 with $9.99 in shipping while my item sat unsold at $13.99 with $5 in shipping.
Marginal Revolution:
Would you rather pay $10 and have free shipping or pay $5 and pay $6 for shipping? Answer: […]

Google moves closer to full scale, head on competition with eBay.
TechCrunch:
Google announced last week on their blog that they will begin to facilitate payments on Google Base in the near future. The blog post from Google pointed out that Google are already accepting payments on their video service as well as when users purchase software […]

SF Gate:
Pinson is a case study in Internet entrepreneurship: A regular guy has a regular job until he discovers he can make an income selling online. But he’s not unique in the way he does business.
Internet users have been turning themselves into Internet merchants since eBay began in 1995. Ten years later, according to a […]

Leading the Charge:

Thomas Haley was unloading supplies for his job at Hardy‘s Hardware when he said something odd caught his eye: the face of Jesus Christ on a piece of sheet metal.
“I mean, it hasn‘t done anything miraculous as of yet, but seeing it is kind of groovy,” said Haley, […]

InternetNews:
eBay has taken a few “minor steps” to improve the feedback system recently, according to David A. Karp, author of “eBay Hacks.” Until recently, Karp said, new eBay members weren t instructed on how to use the feedback system. Now people must watch a mandatory tutorial on the proper use of feedback before they are […]

icWales:
A husband has taken revenge on his former wife by putting pictures of her on sale on eBay.
The Welshman is selling discs containing 200 pictures because he says his ex-spouse cheated on him with his ex-best mate.
Using an anonymous eBay trading name, the man has seven discs of pictures of the 24-year-old listed for sale […]

BBC News:

Internet auction site eBay should do more to tackle fraudsters targeting the site, a consumer magazine has said.
Computing Which? called on the site to be more active in identifying its fraudulent users.
It also wants the site to warn users about the danger of fraud and to crack down […]

p2p news / p2pnet:
“As the number of Google services has increased, we’ve continued to build on our core payment features and migrate to a standard process for people to buy our services with a Google Account. Examples of this migration include enabling users to buy Google Video content, Google Earth licenses, and Google Store items […]