Archive for 2006

Matthias Mazur:
With all the rubbish running on the internet, with all cons sitting behind their computers just waiting for another bait to arrive, finding a good a wholesale supplier nowadays is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
And the big problem when you finally get a hold of some links to wholesale websites is [...]

Jeffery Rush:
It would seem that there have been some major disappointments presented to those who were able to preorder the Sony Play Station 3 game console. The biggest problem was that with the limited quantity of consoles made available to the numerous stores that ordered them were not nearly enough to go around. Retail stores [...]

Nintendo Co.’s Wii is outselling Sony Corp.’s Playstation 3 and Microsoft’s Xbox 360 on auction site Ebay, according to the company’s latest research sales data.Under the Tech Gadgets category, Wii ranks as the No. 1 seller at 38,074 units sold. The innovative new console, which retails for $249, is sold to Ebay customers at an [...]

Apparently upset by the dominance of Microsoft’s media downloading program iTunes Skype and Sony have decided to introduce their own programs as counters to the well known program.
 Sony’s offering is to begin to allow movie downloads onto their PSP handheld unit.

 Initially the Microsoft service will allow users to download the movies onto their PCs and [...]

Steven Grossberg, who sells video games online from his home in Wellington, Fla., recently sent an enticing offer to 20,000 customers: $10 off any purchase over $30 using a new payment service, Google Checkout.
Traffic on his site more than tripled, and best of all, he said, Google picked up the tab for the promotion.
“I think [...]

US auction company eBay Inc may partner its PayPal online payments service with a local Chinese entity should it be required by local regulations, chief executive Meg Whitman said.
However, Whitman, speaking to media in Shanghai, refused to comment on a rumored venture between the payment service and UMPay, a joint venture between China Mobile Ltd [...]

eBay Inc is shutting down its main Web site in China and replacing it with a site that would be largely run by a Beijing-based Internet company, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
eBay (nasdaq: EBAY - news - people ) plans to announce as early as today that it is [...]

The online auction house eBay has won a Federal Court case against the promoters of one of the country’s biggest music festivals over an anti-scalping policy.
The promoters of the Big Day Out had hoped to beat scalpers when they threatened to cancel any tickets found to have been sold on eBay at inflated prices.
Cricket Australia [...]

Is eBay a sales channel or a marketing channel? The difference is as a sales channel, you expect to make money. As a marketing channel, you expect to acquire customers for the best cost. Here’s how eBay has changed and why your strategy should change too.
Classic eBay, or what I’ll call eBay 1.0 was about [...]

The lion costume made of real animal skin and worn in the 1939 film classic The Wizard of Oz sold at an auction Friday for $700,000 US ($810,495 Cdn).
The sale of 900 pieces of Hollywood memorabilia was hosted live on eBay by the Profiles In History auction house.
Actor Bert Lahr played the lovable but [...]