Archive for August, 2006

Listd, a new eBay auction listing tool is now available. I had a sneak peak at this product prior to launch and I am very impressed at the ease of use and simple AJAX enabled format.It is clean, neat and simple to use, in fact people are reporting that they are listing items in less [...]

When does a $2.33 transaction turn into a superior court case?When it happens on eBay.A dispute over a piece of smoky quartz normally would have been of little consequence to Kiel Sturm, who was selling the stone on eBay. But when a Los Angeles buyer made defamatory remarks that threatened to forever mar Sturm’s online [...]

Hello.I, like many others from ebay, are not happy with the changes that ebay is making this month, mostly the fee hikes, and discouraging store owners from listing their items as a store…(huh?) that’s right, they want you to pay for and setup a store, but use their auction formatLet me summerize it for you [...]

The tasty crunch of sweet corn is just a couple of clicks away for folks outside of the Midwest thanks to some Iowa entrepreneurs.The golden, buttery bounty seems be everywhere in Iowa — in grocery stores and on street corners being sold out of the backs of pickups. But since the craving for sweet corn [...]

Why didn’t eBay partner with MySpace? Well, I’m not sure. It could have been a combination of reasons. One reason could be that eBay didn’t feel there would be any synergies from such a move. Another reason could be that paying more than $900 million for MySpace partnership could have rocked the share price further, [...]

Skype is hitting the road. Skype will be working with iSkoot to market an application that will put Skype contact lists, VoIP and instant messaging services on high end mobile phones. The two companies will first market the application to mobile operators who could offer the iSkoot services to their customers. Ultimately, they will also [...]

The search is on for eBay’s Canadian Entrepreneur of the Year. Last year’s top winner, “urban human� began by selling clothing part-time to finance his education, and within six months was selling to fashion buyers around the world.The 2006 grand prize is $5000, with $2000 for second place and $1000 for third place. The deadline [...]

eBay has launched a new “Sell Your Item” (SYI) form, used by sellers to list items on eBay.com. According to eBay’s announcement, the new form is faster with fewer pages, and is flexible - allowing sellers to customize it to hide options they rarely use.Beginning later this month, eBay will slowly switch sellers who use [...]

Bay sellers have discovered another glitch in eBay Stores search. This glitch prevents eBay’s search tool from finding all of a seller’s Store inventory once a buyer has clicked on a Store category. Last month, users uncovered a glitch in which searches in eBay Stores did not bring back all results on default “Title & [...]

Tiger Woods’ 50th PGA Tour win was a piece of cake … and now apparently, you can own that piece.A piece of this cake, which was to commemorate Tiger Woods’ 50th PGA Tour win, is now up for sale on eBay. (Free Press, Julian H. Gonzalez / Associated Press)The Buick Open acknowledged Woods’ milestone last [...]