Archive for May, 2006

Reality TV Magazine: 
Who do you want to win American Idol?  Do you have McPhever?  Are you a card carrying member of the Soul Patrol?  If you’re nervous about how close the American Idol vote was for the final three, then you might want to turn to eBay to give your favorite finalist the edge.  In [...]

(CBS 11 News) DALLAS A Dallas man is headed to prison after stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of sporting goods and selling them on eBay.
Prosecutors say the man and a Dallas woman stole bikes and other goods across the country.
Police finally caught up with them after pursuing them on eBay.
Thieves took the owner [...]

about.com: 
ABC is going reality tv-crazy this summer. The network has announced five new reality shows!  Here’s what we can look forward to:
Buy It Now — Families put their prized possessions on Ebay to help finance their dreams.  Here’s the cool part — viewers get to bid on these items after each episode. The results will [...]

cananda.com: 
An historic fort in northeastern New York state is being touted as a “developer’s dream” by its owners, who are trying to sell the American Civil War-era structure for millions of dollars on EBay.

p2pnet: 
Morpheus distributor StreamCast Networks wants a world-wide injunction on the sale and marketing of eBay’s Skype VoIP products, as well as billions of dollars in unspecified damages.
With that in mind, it’s filed RICO (Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organization) Act, anti-trust and other claims against eBay and 21 other defendants, who include Kazaa co-founders Niklas Zennstrom [...]

AuctionBytes: 
See Fusion Search Marketing Inc. has launched two new services, one for shoppers, and one targeted at eBay sellers. Find-Your-Item is a comparison-shopping engine allows shoppers to search over 15 million items by category, keyword or advanced search queries to find exactly what they are looking for online (http://www.find-your-item.com).
 

 
The company also launched fyiAds, a new [...]

Inside Bay Area: 
Like many schemes that offer quick riches, buying and selling on eBay can be more challenging than many fortune hunters wish. You don’t merely input your password, et voil, you are trading the Taj Mahal. The process is onerous, especially for sellers. Some entrepreneurs have simplified this for people who are willing to drop [...]

emercerdesbenz: 
To kick things off this morning, Mercedes-Benz has announced that in an apparent effort to boost their credibility with internet users, the luxury automaker will be partnering with both eBay.de (eBay’s German website) as well as another eBay company, Mobile.de, to promote the recently updated Mercedes E-Class.
Beginning today, both websites will feature special web content [...]

NJ.com:
“I was always afraid I’d blow up the computer,” Kelly says.
Kelly sat in the front row in a room of about 32 other eBay learners during an eBay Day training session co-sponsored by the auction house and the United States Postal Service at the Phillipsburg Public Library.
The postal workers putting on the show even wore [...]

CPU Review: 
Founded just 10 years ago, eBay is now a $3 billion company, and growing, serving more than 130 million registered users in 32 countries. However, eBay’s growth is slowing in the US, putting pressure on non-US Web sites to accelerate their growth. While it is believed that eBay is wisely betting on global markets, [...]