Archive for March, 2006

Mercury News:
Paypal, the online payment service owned by eBay Inc., has begun testing a new offering that allows people to make and receive payments using cell phones and other mobile devices.
Paypal Mobile is being tested by an unspecified number of eBay employees and will be available to the public in the United States, Canada and [...]

First Coast News:

When Jeff and Rhonda Froelich wanted a creative way to raise capital for their autistic son, they decided to use their head.
Jeff’s head, actually.
“It’s shiny. It’s tan. It’s round. It’s perfect!” exclaimed Wife Rhonda.
It was her idea to auction off the space on the back of her husband’s bald [...]

ENN:
Online auction website eBay.ie has launched a new service to help protect users against ‘phishing’ e-mails which attempt to gain personal details from members.
The “My Messages” service is an attempt to get around the problem of spoof e-mails sent to customers purporting to come from eBay. Such messages often ask users for information such as [...]

Daily Record:
Feedback, Dock said, is essentially how to earn a reputation for doing business online.
“The gist is, feedback is what keeps eBay running. Ninety percent of the people you meet will do business fairly and honestly,” Sparano said.
Selling items online was the main focus of the presentation, and both Sparano and Dock highly recommended researching [...]

haaretz.com:
Walla! announced yesterday two new services which are local versions of eBay and Paypal.
Walla!Buy is an online market and auction site, while Walla!Pay allows users to make secure payments without revealing their credit card details. The development of the sites, similar in design to the U.S. sites that they emulate, took more than a year [...]

WestLothian:
A man has put his dental appointment on an internet auction site to highlight the state of NHS dentistry, it has emerged.
Richard Barrie, 29, has tried for five years to get an NHS dentist since moving from Dundee to Thornton in Fife.
After relentless phone calls, he finally landed two registration consultations and has placed one [...]

KUTV:
If you’re like millions of Americans you’ve bought or sold something on eBay.
For those who sell, Bill Gephardt says sometimes they get a surprise from the Internal Revenue Service.
Online auctions sellers fall into two groups, people selling personal belongings or businesses going on-line to sell their stuff.
The Internal Revenue Service tells me that when filing [...]

globeandmail:
Most working days, law professionals in the New York offices of Torys LLP sit at computers and scour the Internet for cheap designer goods. Shouts of “Bingo” ring out when unbelievable deals are spotted.
The lawyers and paralegals are not searching for bargains, it should be explained, they are trolling for litigation work.
“If it’s a Gucci [...]

The Hub:
Random antiques, sports equipment, dirty magazines - you name it and Jacob Plaunt, 20, of East Lansing, could probably help you sell it. Well, not the dirty magazines.
As assistant manager of iSOLD It, he’s helped customers sell pretty much anything and everything. If you’ve seen “The 40-Year-Old Virgin” then you get the concept. [...]

ComputerWorld:
EBay and Amazon.com this week announced extensions to their content syndication capabilities, the latest example of e-commerce players using this popular technology to facilitate the flow of product information to potential buyers in order to help spur sales.
EBay now lets its Web-site visitors create content-syndication feeds for searches they conduct on its online marketplace, the [...]