Archive for December 27th, 2006

If you’ve been waiting to unload some of those gifts you just don’t want, longtime eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) fans know that today offers an opportunity to post them at a discounted listing fee.
All day today, $0.15 will serve as your insertion fee for fixed-price and more conventional auction-style items in most categories. Naturally, any successful […]

A former executive at online auctioneer eBay Inc. has come out of a short-lived retirement to take a job leading Silicon Valley startup LiveOps, which contracts with companies to handle customer service and sales calls.
Maynard Webb, 51, left his position as eBay’s chief operating officer in August after seven years with the company. He previously […]

Domino’s Pizza is teaming up with eBay to create an online treasure hunt for clues leading to $9.99 “Buy It Now” offers for Apple iPods, flat screen TVs, and other prizes.
The “Anything Goes Deal” from Domino’s runs from January 1 to February 5. An offline component lets customers buy any pizza for $9.99. The […]

To succeed in the eBay business market a seller needs to master advanced strategies.
It would be logical to conclude that the best people to learn these strategies from would be successful eBay sellers.
But the problem is finding these successful eBay sellers. Once you do find them you can monitor their auctions and learn from them.
By […]

Government agencies of all sizes have surplus assets which they seek to dispose of. Prior to eBay, their methods for disposal of assets were pretty limited. Agencies could run auctions, contact liquidators, or simply dispose of the assets as waste.
Auctions would often deliver the highest dollar return but faced the issue of lack of buyer […]

AuctionBytes:
When Tiffany & Co. sued eBay in 2004, it said 73% of items purchased on eBay in a study it conducted were counterfeit. eBay wants the testimony of Tiffany’s expert excluded due to the methodology in coming up with those statistics.

On October 6, 2006, eBay filed a motion in limine (http://digbig.com/4qknn) to exclude the proposed […]

Web Site Host Directory:
According to the third annual Holiday Re-Gifting Survey commissioned by e-commerce company, eBay, a significant increase of Americans believe they will either return, or ”re-gift” holiday items received, this season.

According to the report, 57 percent of the vast majority of Americans, […]

KWTX:
The rare Velvet Underground acetate has sold on eBay for far less than the first auction, but that was revealed to be a prank anyway.
The rare version of “The Velvet Underground and Nico” sold on eBay Thursday for $25,200 to an unknown bidder.
The original supposed winning bid was for more than $155,000 earlier this month, […]

Record Eagle:

A Lake Ann man was arrested for selling two stolen computers to police through the popular Internet auction site eBay.
Michael Lee Johns, 24, faces two felony charges after police said he stole two computers from Interlochen Center for the Arts, where he was hired as an independent contractor to install dozens of computers throughout […]

It’s the end of the year, so what better time to take stock of Bayraider’s favourite celeb auctions from the past 12 months? Especially as it’ll give me time to nip down to Woolworths and finish my Christmas shopping.
Anyway, I’ve spent 2006 ferreting out the most interesting eBay listings, some of which haven’t been Paris, […]