Archive for June, 2006

 PR Web
Ebay sellers now include big businesses that are seeing the auction giant as a means to marketing expensive products.
The latest high ticket Ebay product is the $100,000 CEO Poker television sponsorship package that includes: television mentions, logo on the poker table, signage at the event, access to the CEO players, and more on a […]

 Reuters UK
Local officials in the rural Alaskan town of King Cove have put an old school up for sale on eBay, saying they hope to raise $1.8 million (985,000 pounds).
The Aleutians East Borough has put the school in the southwestern Alaska coastal village of 725 people up for sale on the online auction house eBay, […]

 Post Gazette
A Gucci wallet for $120. A Burberry scarf for $32. A pair of Tiffany earrings for $35. If prices like that for some of the hottest luxury brands seem unreal, it very well may be because the goods themselves aren’t real.
The estimated multibillion-dollar counterfeit market has become a major headache for the luxury-product industry […]

 Website Services Magazine
In what could be a serious blow to every retailer and online advertising network on the Web (heads-up Google and Yahoo), eBay has announced they will begin selling contextual advertising to eBay sellers, to be placed on affiliate websites.  For a cut of the profits, eBay will provide direct links to a seller’s items on various websites, […]

 My Hobby
Q: I made extra money selling things on eBay last year. These
were items I picked up at yardsales mostly. My husband says I
am responsible for paying income tax on the money I made, but
I disagree. This is just my hobby, not a business. What do you
think?
– Gladys A.
A: With so many people selling on […]

Search Engine Roundtable
The rumored Gbuy (click to see historical tracking of coverage) has been launched under “Google Checkout” at http://checkout.google.com. It basically has the same exact interface from the sellers or buyer accounts perspective as when I first tested it in As Chris Sherman wrote;

Checkout isn’t a person-to-person, stored-value system like PayPal. But with its […]

 Search Engine Watch
Google has launched Google Checkout, a payment system for online retailers that’s tightly integrated with Google AdWords. Checkout isn’t the rumored PayPal killer, but it does offer some compelling features for both merchants and online shoppers alike.
Rumors have been flying for more than a year about a payment system under development by Google. […]

Read/write Web
eBay, in collaboration with JotSpot, has just released a new community wiki - making it almost certainly the world’s largest wiki platform for a commercial website (Wikipedia is bigger, but it’s non-commercial). eBay Wiki is described as “a collection of fact-based articles written and maintained by eBay Community members” and is powered by […]

Forbes
Unconfirmed reports that Google will soon launch a payment service to rival eBay’s PayPal dealt a blow to the online auction company’s shares on Tuesday.
But eBay (nasdaq: EBAY - news - people ) could conceivably weather the competition thanks to its significant brand-name advantage, according to a new report from Standard & Poor’s Equity […]

TMC Net 

Internet fax and on-demand communications solutions provider RingCentral announced this week the results of its recent online commerce survey, conducted during the eBay Live 2006 conference.

The survey asked more than 85 eBay merchants categorized as “Power Sellers�? to share their thoughts about which communications solutions work best to enhance online selling.

RingCentral’s analysis of the […]