Archive for December 29th, 2006

iMedia:“Domino’s has teamed up with eBay once again for their new, “Anything Goes!” campaign. The scavenger hunt contest on Ebay will accompany Domino’s new promotion which offers any pizza on their menu for $9.99.
“As we continued thinking about value, we thought, why stop at pizza for just $9.99? Why not a DVD player or a [...]

Inc.com:
To help combat bogus eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) seller ratings, which can mislead customers by giving a stamp of approval to fraudulent vendors, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a technique to help validate the scores.
EBay fraudsters have found ways to artificially elevate their seller ratings, by conducting transactions with friends or using alternate online identities [...]

adn:

As time ran out to bid online for Alaska’s state jet Thursday, the biggest spender was willing to pay only about $1.9 million for the used Westwind II.
It wasn’t enough, and no one won the 22-year-old aircraft.
That doesn’t mean the auction is over, said Meghan Stapleton, spokeswoman for Gov. Sarah Palin. The state plans to [...]

MercExchange will have 3 months to put together a new brief in support of its motion for permanent injunction against eBay’s Buy It Now feature, which generates 34 percent of eBay’s Gross Merchandise Sales on the eBay platform. Likewise, eBay will have until March 16, 2007, to prepare a final brief for its motion for [...]

Daily Mail:
But what of all those people we see in the sales snapping up discounted cards and wrapping paper for next year? Would any of them be prepared to buy the whole of next year’s Christmas a year in advance?
I put my entire Christmas on eBay on Boxing Day to find out.
The 7ft artificial Christmas [...]

AuctionBytes:
The number of eBay.com auction listings rose over 56 percent in 1 day this week due to a post-Christmas promotion for sellers. According to MedVed data, there were fewer than 9 million listings (derived by counting auction category totals on eBay.com) at the start of day December 27, 2006, and by the end of the [...]

XTV World:
Kevin Harmon joins StartupNation Radio to discuss how to start and grow a successful eBay business.
Who: In 2002, Kevin Harmon started Inflatable Madness, http://inflatablemadness.com, selling media online such as DVD’s, CD’s, video games, and books. Kevin lists over 400,000 items on his eBay store every month and has the third largest store on [...]

The PayPal division of eBay, which operates the Web’s most respected online payment voucher system, is beginning beta trials of a next-generation online payment system, in cooperation with MasterCard. Using what’s described as a virtual debit card, a customer will be able to make a PayPal-authorized purchase using a one-time number good only for that [...]

Rarely would I allow for my first shot in a duel to come from user-managed Web reference Wikipeda, which has come under fire for poor sourcing. But I just can’t resist. Quoting from its entry on Minnesota’s legendary Mall of America:
“Mall of America is … the most visited shopping mall in the world, with more [...]

Press Release:
Skype launched skySpace, the only media-centric social networking software. skySpace will multiply the volume and quality of information shared among Skype’s 136 million users, creating a new market category.
skySpace empowers Skype users to tell stories by sharing their photos, video, audio, and documents via their skySpace homepage—either privately or to the community at [...]