Archive for October, 2006

eBay’s Chinese portal was in court again yesterday, accused of selling pirated digital books.
The company’s Chinese partner Eachnet Trading Company Ltd stands accused of infringing intellectual property rights. The case opened at Shanghai No 2 Intermediate People’s Court.
Hong Kong-based Digital Heritage Publishing Ltd and Shanghai People’s Publishing House are suing eBay for selling their products [...]

Every now and then, a group of former PayPal employees get together to
catch up on life and work. It might be at a backyard barbecue, a
birthday celebration at a classy San Francisco restaurant or a simple
late-night reunion at someone’s house.
 
Almost inevitably, the conversation turns to business, and soon enough,
a new start-up is born or has [...]

If you have an online store with eBay, Amazon or Yahoo, why not make sure that Google users can find it, too? Google Base Store Connector is a free download that puts info about your store into our index, so that when people search Google for the products you have to sell, you’ll show up [...]

Sure, you can learn about online auctions by trial and error, but there may be a better way. If you’re committed to doing business on eBay right, a class or two at eBay University 2006 may help you get and stay on course.
The annual traveling teach-in educates senior auctioneers by teaching them how to efficiently [...]

It asks me to restore full access to my account by logging in to Paypal. When I click on the link provided in the email, I am sent to a website that looks exactly like the PayPal login page. But the link does not go to Paypal.
This is the link displayed in the email I [...]

Whatever your merchandise, selling by using an eBay auction is profitable, simple and fun. Selling through eBay can be a one-time sale or a second income. People enjoy searching through online auctions to find rare collector’s items or unusual furniture and clothing. The selection at an eBay auction is limitless. Try eBay to sell your [...]

Skype software compatible with the Symbian mobile phone operating system will hit the market by the end of the year, despite rumors that Skype had halted development of the product, an executive said during the Symbian Smartphone Show in London.
“Hopefully before Christmas we can satisfy a lot of questions about where Skype is on mobile [...]

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, [...]