Archive for October 16th, 2006

The very well informed Ina Steiner from AuctionBytes.com wrote on Friday that eBay’s online payment service PayPal now supports payments in 10 new currencies. This allows customers to send, receive and hold funds in any of 17 total currencies worldwide.
eBay buyers can now pay for merchandise in their local money and the funds gets automatically [...]

Buying a mobile phone at the pub or just passing on an old handset to a sibling could lose appeal with the launch on Monday of a phone-only auction Web site by the mobile phone retailer Carphone Warehouse Plc.
In a country with more handsets than people, Carphone hopes the site, www.mymobileauction.com, will rival online auction [...]

Singer PAULA ABDUL’s foray into the world of eBay has ended without success - after an auction to win a day with the AMERICAN IDOL judge received no bids. Fox TV executives had hoped for a bidding war over the VIP package, which included two first-class tickets to Los Angeles, a GBP1,200 ($2,225) shopping spree, [...]