Archive for November, 2006

DEFENCE bosses have banned troops from surfing eBay — because it’s distracting them from the nation’s defence.
Military IT experts discovered that servicemen who had returned from overseas duty were busy spending a £2,240 bonus on the auction site.
Top brass were worried it was too much of a distraction, so brought in the ban across the […]

After a bit of a sticky start with the Korean authorities, Skype is now said tobe offering SkypeIn to South Korean users. The new service will be offered with local online auction site, appropriately called Auction.
eBay, which owns Skype, also owns more than a 99-percent stake in the Korean site, Auction.
Skype initially ran foul of […]

The dust has settled on the first week of console-launch profiteering on eBay. Which way did your bank account go?
Gamasutra reports that the numbers are in on exactly how many hotly-traded consoles made their way across the auction block during the first week of launch madness.
According to eBay, 14,675 PS3s were traded between November 17th […]

eBay released data on how certain popular items fared on eBay.com on “Black Friday,” traditionally one of the busiest retail shopping days in the U.S. eBay said 2,537 TMX Elmo dolls sold for an average price of $70.10 each, and 73 Furreal Butterscotch Pony toys sold for an average price of $350.48 each. Four Samsung […]

Enterprises are facing increased security and compliance risks due to the unmanaged use of Skype on corporate networks, according to a recent survey conducted by Akonix Systems, Inc., provider of the most deployed instant messaging (IM) security and compliance products in the world.
In a September 2006 survey, nearly 43% of respondents claimed that Skype is […]

Google on Monday launched a holiday site featuring retailers that use its Checkout payment service and unveiled money-back promotions to lure customers.
Similar to eBay’s popular PayPal service, Google Checkout, which launched in June, provides a single avenue for making purchases on multiple retail sites, rather than inputting shipping addresses, credit card numbers, and other information […]

The Wii is here, but getting a hold of the better-looking component cables is turning out to be a real pain in the neck. Nintendo’s official online store ran out of the $29 cables almost immediately, and now they’re showing up on eBay for more than five times the regular price.

Sure they look […]

- The eBay community is thriving, and so are the businesses that sell stuff for people on the popular auction Web site.
Now add Florida to the growing list of states deciding how to classify and regulate those enterprises. No one can seem to agree whether they are auctioneers, pawnbrokers, secondhand shops or something else.
The quarterly […]

If you’re planning to make lots of money by hawking your launch-day PS3 on eBay, please please make sure that you know how to use eBay. Some poor sucker (who obviously spent a lot of time out in the cold to get it), accidentally just sold his brand-new, unopened PS3 for the grand total of […]

eBay is taking some heat over some auctions that claim to be offering copies of the O.J. Simpson book.
Among those complaining is the lawyer representing relatives of Nicole Brown, Simpson’s dead ex-wife. Attorney Natasha Roit calls it “outrageous” that there are still copies up for grabs.
An eBay spokesman says the online auction house is removing […]