Archive for June, 2006

 The Galveston County News
Want a bit of Elvis? EBay offers almost 16,000 items bearing some relation to the King of Rock ’N’ Roll. That’s twice as many as a search for “Jesusâ€? brings up. But find a saint’s image on a soda cracker, or a Madonna’s on a muffin and you have premiere fodder for […]

 AuctionBytes
eBay sales frequently depend upon eye-grabbing descriptions, but without a picture, the ultimate auction value can suffer. At this year’s eBay Live conference in June, eBay expanded their photography education from previous years.
eBay offered both an educational seminar (Basic Digital Photography to Make You an eBay PowerSeller - 1.5 hours) and a computer lab (Hands-On […]

 AuctionBytes
Attendees at eBay’s fifth annual user conference in Las Vegas this month had plenty of news thrown their way. eBay turned “Web 2.0″ by adding blogs and wiki to the site. Skype was hyped. And eBay vowed to begin enforcing its policy against excessive shipping charges.
You can read about these announcements in this AuctionBytes Newsflash […]

 Nashua Telegraph
Forget miracle medicines, advanced aeronautics or genetically modified crops. When it comes to business research, the biggest laboratory in the world isn’t at Pfizer, General Electric or Monsanto. It’s online, at eBay.com, where everyone from university scholars to conventional retailers are carefully studying the auctions of baby pajamas, home board games and other items […]

 AuctionBytes
Nearly every eBay seller has had this experience: You list an item, perhaps a rare-ish collectible, and after a day or two you notice a 5 in that item’s Number of Watchers column indicating 5 people are watching your item. “Great!” you say to yourself. “There are sure to be some bids now.”
But nobody bids. […]

PR Web

As a buyer you are trying to find bargains i.e listings with the best price (Buy It Now Items) or listings with the fewest bids (Auction Items). Generally these listing are the ones that get the least amount of visitors, and most of the time it is because of missing keywords (Product Serial, Manufacture […]

 The Record
Two wooden carvings stolen 34 years ago from a 500-year-old church in England were discovered on an Internet auction site and will be returned, a U.S. broker says.
British authorities have never determined who sawed off the lion and lamb figures from pews at the Church of St. Nicholas in Denston, England.
Paul Eash, an eBay […]

 Blogging Stocks
This just in from TheFlyOnTheWall.com (subscription required): A Merrill Lynch analyst has issued a report speculating that Microsoft will soon buy another large Internet player.
The reason – if it isn’t obvious — is Google’s increasing competitive threat. As we’ve written about obsessively on our Google blog, Microsoft is not only fading in its battle to keep up with […]

 AutoBlog

Dale Earnhardt Jr. is  looking to rearrange his personal car collection, so his customized 270-horsepower Mini Cooper is officially on the block. Mini tuning house Mini Mania is responsible for the barrage of modifications to the car, which include upgrades to the computer, suspension, exhaust and more.
In addition to the go-fast bits, the Mini sports […]

 eBay
So what exactly is a wiki?
We’ve been working on ways to help members contribute useful information and knowledge to the Community. A wiki is the perfect format to do just that. Basically, the eBay Wiki will allow members to quickly and easily create articles about a variety of eBay topics. Once created, these articles can […]