Archive for August, 2006

When people find out that I own several home-based businesses, they always ask what I do. When I mention eBay, I can see their eyes light up, because everyone wants to know how to start making money with eBay auctions!I then mention a few of the things I sell on eBay, and since it has [...]

When you see the Powerseller logo beside the userid of an Ebay seller, what goes through your mind? Do you, like most people, naturally assume that this person has got the Ebay game all figured out (and make no mistake — it IS a game!), or do you, like me, blink dispassionately at this trivial [...]

It is of sum importance to know the difference between a reliable wholesale list and the 1,2,3 by the hundreds wholesale list online contacts. Because of the market and wholesale business source confidentiality, many businesses have jump on to the wholesale niche selling outdated wholesale sources that are found by the dozens in many Internet [...]

That is right you read this title correctly, eBay has a training center called eBay University. Now they don’t give out any traditional diplomas at this institution of higher learning because you won’t need them. What you do get is real world practical advice, tips and tricks to making the most of your eBay or [...]

Click to ZoomThe bigger names in the home networking game may be D-Link and Linksys, but TrendNet wants to be a major player as well. Looking beyond routers and network cards, TrendNet recently released its ClearSky Skype handset and based on early reviews, it works very well, even if it isn’t the prettiest phone on [...]

Since late June, Kirby Witmer has twice tried buying electronics for his customers using Google Inc.’s online-payment feature, Google Checkout.But all he got were a couple of Google (GOOG) T-shirts.The first arrived after Witmer, who runs an electronics business called KirbTech from his home in Carlisle, Pa., canceled his order for a flat-screen monitor from [...]

The ever-growing Skype community has achieved world renown, but there’s a smaller cult operating in the VOIP underworld known as ‘Babblers’. They’re signed up to a Skype-like service called Babble, and this is their USB stick for instant free calls on your laptop.Like Skype’s Flash phone, the Babblestick plugs into your USB port and automatically [...]

A sandwich which was partially eaten by Britney Spears is being auctioned on internet auction site eBay.The waiter who served Britney and her husband Kevin Federline at a recent function has also put his leftovers up for grabs on the site.Both Britney’s egg sandwich and her husband’s accompanying corndog have already attracted bits in excess [...]

Google and eBay may butt heads when it comes to e-commerce, but yesterday they announced a deal that has the two Net giants sharing revenue on search-related text ads delivered on eBay’s sites outside of the U.S. They’ll also jointly develop “click to call” ads.The deal shuts out eBay’s U.S. advertising partner, Yahoo, and shows [...]

PayPal co-founder Peter A. Thiel and his hedge-fund management company, Clarium Capital Management, are accused of fraud in a lawsuit filed Monday.The suit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California by Amisil Holdings Ltd., names Thiel and Clarium as defendants, along with Clarium officers Jason Portnoy and Mark Woolway.Amisil, a risk [...]