Archive for March, 2006

UPI.com:
Imagine buying vintage Spiderman comics for $16,000 and receiving instead, a box of printer paper or losing a whopping $27,000 in purchasing a big rig that didn’t exist in the first place.
These are just many of the online auction fraud horror stories that brothers Edward and Steve Klink compiled from their eBay watchdog Web site [...]

AuctionBytes:
The ecommerce space continues to heat up with eBay competitors releasing services that are a cross between classified ads and eBay fixed-price listings.
Microsoft launched its free online marketplace on Tuesday. Windows Live Expo, which had been code-named Fremont in alpha testing, is still in beta testing mode and is available only to U.S. customers. The [...]

Auctionbytes:

Registration for the fifth annual eBay Live conference opened on Friday. The 3-day event takes place this year in Las Vegas with classes, an exhibit hall where eBay and vendors show off their tools and services for buyers and sellers, and plenty of networking and entertainment. About 10,000 people attended last year’s [...]

NationalJeweler:
Following the example of high-end jewelry and clothing designers, online auction house eBay will host a fashion suite for celebrities and stylists to visit ahead of Sunday’s Academy Awards.
Running Feb. 24 through March 2 at the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif., the suite will feature one-of-a-kind diamond jewelry and designer clothing, all of which [...]

The Daily Record (UK):

ALMOST three-quarters of groceries bought on eBay were unfit for sale in supermarkets, a survey found.
Durham County Council trading standards officers tested 89 food items bought on the online auction site.
Fifty-one failed to meet labelling laws, 12 fell down on ingredients listing and two were not as advertised.
Tinned [...]

popphoto.com:

Casio has teamed with eBay to create the first cameras with a shooting mode made specifically to create images for use on eBay. The eBay mode captures smaller-sized pictures–about 2MP according to Casio–and includes an Auto Macro feature that automatically adjusting the focus when the camera thinks you’re shooting a macro [...]

Some are suggesting that Google Base will suffer because it does not currently have a way to monitor seller reputation. Well, neither does eBay. eBay allows buyers to leave poor feedback whether or not they complete the purchase of an item. I suspect that eBay sellers will welcome Google [...]