Archive for May 12th, 2006

  • New eBay Motors Feature

    auctionbytes: 
    eBay Motors has begun testing a new feature that will make it easier for buyers to find vehicles being sold locally. Buyers located in four select markets (Chicago, Miami, Seattle, and Washington, D.C.) will see a new section at the end of their search results called “Additional vehicles near [your ZIP code],” where listings from [...]

  • eBay Chosen to Test Online TV Media Buying Auction

     mediabuyerplanner:
    eBay has won the bid to develop an electronic trading system for buying and selling TV media, mere days after an ad industry task force unveiled the plan to test the idea, reports MediaPost (via MarketingVOX). After meeting with potential providers of the auction infrastructure, including Google, eBay was selected “based on their scale and [...]

  • 3rd High Profile Powerseller Gone

    Will eBay start paying attention yet?
    Killer fees likely the cause of death for sellers.
    auctionbytes: 
    Online auction discussion forums are buzzing about an eBay seller known as Parrothead88, a popular seller of shipping supplies. John Hannon, who registered on eBay in 1997, had made eBay history when he became the first “shooting star” PowerSeller in 1999 when [...]

  • Seth Godin Talks eBay - Video

     auctionbytes:

    Best-selling author and Internet marketing guru Seth Godin shared advice for eBay sellers in an interview currently airing on AuctionBytes.TV. Godin, a renowned speaker and author of such books as “Permission Marketing” and “Purple Cow,” revealed best practices common to successful online merchants.
     
     

     
     
    Godin said eBay sellers can choose to become commodity sellers and get commodity [...]

  • Australian tries to sell New Zealand on eBay

    The Daily Telegraph: 
    AN Australian larrikin has failed in his bid to sell New Zealand for a bargain-basement price on eBay.
    The country was described in the ad as having “very ordinary weather” and bidding opened at one cent.
    A generous bid of $3000 had been entered by the time the eBay realised the problem and stepped in [...]

  • State of Hawaii Constitution on eBay

    Historical Document Selling on eBay:
    QuikDrop eBay Drop-Off Stores announced today the listing of the original State of Hawaii Constitution from 1950. This remarkable document set the course of history which enabled Hawaii to become the 50th State in the Union. According to Griffin Anderson, District Manager for QuikDrop, “This rare historical document represents a unique [...]