Archive for January, 2007

If being diagnosed with leukemia wasn’t bad enough, Patrick Pedraja’s hair started falling out from the chemotherapy treatments.
“That was a big thing,” said Patrick, who’s 11 and likes to be called Pat. “I loved my hair.”
But his newly expansive forehead gave him a bright idea. If he could get companies to pay to advertise on […]

A private Oklahoma university plans to auction a year of its tuition on eBay next month.
Oklahoma Wesleyan University executive vice president Bob Myers says officials from the online auction site have told the school that they don’t know of any other college or university that has tried such an auction.
Oklahoma college to auction year […]

Got a Tiffany & Co. ring or vintage Haviland china set just aching for a spot on eBay? Sure, you may make a couple hundred — or even several thousand — dollars off your goods, but selling on the ever-growing online marketplace involves so much more than taking a few pictures, writing a description and […]

EBay Inc. reports earnings for the fiscal fourth quarter on Wednesday. The following is a summary of key developments and analyst opinion related to the period.
OVERVIEW: The online auctioneer likely benefited from the fourth-quarter holiday shopping rush, as more people flocked to the Web to buy gifts this season than ever before.
EBay watched to see […]

Consumers have yet to recognize the shotgun wedding between the Internet and television, but that hasn’t stopped companies from rolling out devices and programs that will bring the two together. Last week, for instance, Netflix debuted its streaming video service, and the founders of Skype put a brand name on their new project, a peer-to-peer […]

Ebay Membership
First of all, are you a member of the Ebay community yet? If not, visit the web site listed at the end of this article to get that taken care of right away! It’s free and very easy to sign up. Just fill in some basic information like your name, address and phone number, […]

Staff at eBay Inc.’s Chinese partner EachNet have posted a protest letter online over new contract terms in response to the company’s take over by Hong Kong’s Tom Online.
In the letter to eBay’s chief executive Meg Whitman, posted on December 31, “EachNet staff” voiced concerns their terms were threatened by the folding of EachNet into […]

eBay’s new “Safeguarding Member IDs” (SMI) policy is coming under scrutiny from users who are concerned it will decrease bidding activity on the site. In recent days, members began noticing that when they looked at an eBay auction, they were unable to see bidder User IDs once the bidding had reached $200. Some fear eBay’s […]

Some eBay users may not deserve the stellar reputations showcased in their member profile.
A study from the University of California Berkeley shows that hundreds of the Web site’s users have artificially inflated their ratings by buying and selling good feedback.
The practice allows sellers to appear more reliable and therefore garner higher prices for their products. […]

This winter has brought record-high temperatures and only scattered flurries across southern New England, but snow finally hit this shoreline town on Saturday.
It didn’t come from the sky.
Mary and Jim Walker, of Loveland, presented about 30 snowballs to the Hansen family of Milford on the city green, after family patriarch Chris Hansen bought them from […]