Archive for August 11th, 2006

Paul Bezaire, a.k.a. “The Rebel,” has announced that his latest book, “How I Sued PayPal and Won,” is now available. The book uses real-life examples from his involvement in the Los Angeles Superior Courts to illustrate how he and others were able to win their lawsuit against this corporate giant.”I know PayPal has millions of […]

kype’s flown past MySpace. But both cases are even more confirmation that “free” rules cyber space.Skype, which all but gives away long distance across the globe, reports it has 113 million users worldwide, while MySpace, a social networking site, celebrated its 100 millionth registered user on Aug. 8 (during the News Corp. (nyse: NWS - […]

New “Sell Your Item” Form LaunchedDavid Wygant, eBay senior product manager, recently announced that the Sell Your Item Form (SYI) is available after a full year of testing. This single-page form allows sellers to enter all item details, review and then submit listings without the hassle of loading multiple pages. The SYI form also offers […]

eBay Sellers are pulling out all the stops to get Google into the online auction business.
Here are some quotes from the Google Group, “Google We Need An Auction Site“:
EBAY IS ONE OF THE WORST COMPANIES IN THE U.S.
I have sold over 400,000 items on eBay. I have been flown to San Jose at eBay’s expense […]

A small group of eBay sellers launched a discussion group on Google Groups to “beg” Google to consider opening an auction site. The move comes after eBay announced a significant fee hike for Store inventory listings in an effort to “rebalance” the marketplace toward the core platform (non-Store listings).The Google Group, called “Google We Need […]

eBay is holding a contest to promote its new eBay Blogs and its “Reviews & Guides” feature. Users who create or post to an eBay blog or who write a new Review or Guide will be automatically entered in the eBay $100,000 Giveaway promotion. Judges will pick 100 writers based on their originality, thoroughness, visuals, […]

Sandhills Powersports is in high gear with revenue increasing 100 percent to about $300,000 in the past two months now that its new IBM/eOneGroup site is in full throttle.The Nebraska-based online motorcycle parts and accessories business began in 2003 as a part-time, three-person company, selling on eBay. As it became more successful, Ben Anthony, the […]

If you hope to own an eBay business, and make a full time living at it, you can easily make that dream come true even if you don�t have a product of your own to sell. eBay provides many people who want to quit their corporate nine-to-five jobs with a way to make a good […]

When people think of VoIP, they think of Skype. That’s the interesting conclusion of Phil Wolff’s blog on Skype Journal. That’s bad news for Vonage…and very good news for Skype.Wolff reaches his conclusion by doing an analysis of blogpulse’s chart of Skype’s blogshare. It shows, in his words, “how closely the line of the term […]

In the continuing tradition of scammers going after the most popular software and services to try and rip people off, a relatively new scam has been targeting Turkey Skype users. In particular, it is a piece of malware disguising itself as an installer for Skype. Once executed, it turns the machine into a password-harvesting device, […]