Archive for March 7th, 2006

  • Paypal payments going mobile

    CNN Money:
    PayPal is getting back to its mobile roots.
    Back in 1999, when the company first launched as a tiny startup, it had designed software to beam money between handhelds and cell phones. It rapidly abandoned that plan when it found that buyers and sellers on eBay preferred to use a Web-based version of its [...]

  • eBayers Attain Risk-Free Profits

    Business 2.0:
    Like many mom-and-pop teams that sell on eBay, Cheryl and Gary Casper started with stuff lying around the house–baby clothes, old toys, even VHS copies of Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty that their daughters were still watching. “I was ripping them out of their hands,” Cheryl says. “I was, like, ‘I’ll buy it for you [...]

  • Matt Bannick to head up eBay corporate philanthropy

    eBay may soon have to add it’s Power Sellers to the list of philanthropy initiatives if they continue to raise fees.
    EBay Inc. said on Monday that Matt Bannick, president of eBay International, will head the auction giant’s initiatives in corporate philanthropy and the developing world.

  • eBay Contact Lens Court Case

    Tech News:
    A case accusing eBay of facilitating the illicit sale of contact lenses has been thrown out of court.
    The General Optical Council (GOC) files charges against eBay in August 2005, after it found several resellers offering contact lenses through the auction site. It accused the website of ‘aiding and abetting’ the sale of lenses, which [...]

  • Can eBay squeeze more out of sellers?

    The Gripe Line:
    EBay has implemented a policy that seems aimed at eliminating the use of personal PayPal accounts for collecting funds on EBay transactions. As a result, EBay sellers must pay the standard PayPal credit card fee even when buyers pay with funds from their own PayPal account.
    “For a long time, I found EBay a [...]