Archive for February, 2006

Daily India:
Ebay is the ‘BEST’ opportunity you can use right now to make money online in the dropshipping business from the comfort of your own home.
Thousands of people just like you use eBay auctions on a daily basis to sell and buy products on the Internet; now it’s your time to START your own dropshipping [...]

Jack’s shirts from the hit movie Brokeback Mountain sold for $101.100.51 in an eBay auction that ended on February 20th. The auction stated that 100% of the final price will go to Variety Children’s Charity of Southern California.

From the eBay Auction:
These are the men’s shirts, originally selected by BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN costume designer [...]

Daily India:
First, and as important to your success as anything you learn here, is clearly understanding how eBay users find things to spend their money on.
No matter what type of buyer they are, no matter where they come from, they all use the same tool to find auction ads;
“They use the search bar to type [...]

KCCI:
A western Iowa couple found a way to live the small town life and still make big city bucks.
Steven and Crystal Holt are making movie magic in Denison. A few years ago, Steven Holt quit his job to sell movies on the online auction site eBay — and business took off.
Last year, the Holts sold [...]

vnunet.com:

Online auction firm eBay has pulled the sale of a woman’s ashes which were being offered at 1p a packet by her son.
Glen Beaton, from Inverness in Scotland, wanted to use the auction site to fulfil his mother’s wish to travel around the world. He put her ashes into small bags and [...]

Market Watch:
Internet auctioneer EBay Inc. on Tuesday named EDS Corp. executive Bob Swan as chief financial officer, with current CFO Rajiv Dutta moving over to run the company’s Skype Internet-phone service.
Swan, who was also CFO at Electronic Data Systems, will be eBay’s pointman on all matters financial, including mergers and acquisitions, the company said. He’ll [...]

AuctionBytes:
Overstock Auctions is doing away with 1-day duration listings. Sellers will still have a choice of running auctions for 3, 5, 7 and 10 days. Previously sellers were required to have a business rating of at least 10 to post a 1-day auction. The Overstock Auctions post announcing the change said it was being made [...]

Napa Valley Register:
(Steve) Westly, a former executive with eBay who made a fortune off the Internet company’s stock, remains a virtual unknown even though he has been active in party politics for years. A Field Poll conducted in November found that 66 percent of Democratic voters had no opinion of him.
The initial phase of his [...]

IrishDev.com:
Buyertools Ltd has launched the first free of charge price comparison program, checking eBay auctions against thousands of online stores.
The new software called “Pricepirates” finds relevant offers from merchants listed at Shopping.com, the world’s largest product catalog, and on the Amazon Marketplace. Christoph Berndt, Managing Director of Buyertools Ltd says “The application checks prices [...]

Times Online:
While fears about internet fraud have fuelled the success of the eBay auction site’s e-money provider PayPal, a growing number of customers are concerned about its service standards and accountability.
Daniel Eddy, 23, used to be a big fan of PayPal until he sold a DVD on eBay. He said: “I got back from holiday [...]