Archive for November, 2006

Continuing to expand its line of Skype-powered products, the networking company launched the USR9640 USR Mini Cam for Skype yesterday.
Aside from being dirt cheap for a Webcam/headphone setup (just $40), it’s optimized for Skype, features true 1.3-megapixel capture capability and full-motion video at up to 30 frames per second due in part to some support [...]

Meg Whitman, eBay’s chief executive officer, still has her sunny demeanor, despite what has been at times a rocky year for her online marketplace.
Wall Street is on her back about slowing growth at the company. At the same time, critics insist that eBay’s foray into Internet telephone calls via last year’s $2.6 billion acquisition of [...]

So there you are, browsing your local Wal-Mart. You turn down an aisle and there before you is an unbelievable bargain on summer clothing or a popular DVD. Or maybe you’re in Radio Shack, where you find a half-dozen $50 remote-control cars on sale for $10 each.
“eBay!” you think. You snatch up the bargain goods [...]

More people than ever are expected to shop online this holiday season, but Amazon.com Inc. and eBay Inc. are no longer the clear winners.
The dominance of the two e-commerce giants is being chipped away by a new breed of online shopper drawn to familiar names and lower prices, better Internet-search technology and an explosion in [...]

Oh sure, we may have laughed at those poor bastards waiting in the cold for Sony’s latest - cold, hungry, sheltered from the elements only by their tents and the overhang of the Wal-Mart’s entrance. But they’re the ones laughing now - turns out, via a recent study, that the average price of a pre-sold [...]

As of earlier this evening, eBay had over 17,000 PlayStation 3 listings, which is almost double the 9,000 they featured just this afternoon.
Now, because so many of these systems have long since topped $3,000 and some are even over $4,000 and approaching $5,000, you’re looking at some outrageously pricey systems. Even for the most hardcore, [...]

If you are not getting the bids you want with your eBay auctions you could be making some crucial mistakes in your listings. As a PowerSeller who makes a living on eBay I find myself browsing eBay’s listings on a daily basis. While browsing I see so many eBay sellers (even PowerSellers) making crucial errors [...]

It’s easy to think you know pretty much all there is to know about a product you’ve encountered daily for most of your life, in my case postcards.
So I was really shocked to discover someone selling an identical postcard to one I listed on eBay; even more shocked to learn his postcard made £300, compared [...]

Selling items for a profit on eBay is easy when those items are things that kids want. The time of year between October and mid January is especially good since that time of the year is the Holiday Season and many gifts are exchanged.
As you know, for the Holidays and XMAS, many kids receive toys [...]

Only four days after the console went on sale in Japan, eBay.co.uk has decided to prohibit users from selling PS3s in the UK.
Import PS3 consoles have been fetching upwards of £1000 on eBay, and with the PS3 not expected to launch in the UK until March, at the earliest, the high price of import consoles [...]