Archive for February, 2007

Lunar New Year arrived early this year for popular twins May and Choy, who were handed $7,000 and two weeks as eBay’s Style Ambassadors to give their two-bedroom rented condo at Telok Blangah a thorough makeover.
The catch, of course, was that everything had to be bought through eBay.

Self-confessed online shopping addicts, the twins snapped up [...]

An article of clothing that closely resembles the Pashmina we bought the other day on Sixth Avenue is for sale on eBay for $455.00. The price is justified because, according to the seller, it is in fact the actual bandanna Prince wore during his racy halftime show at the Super Bowl. “I was lucky enough [...]

This week’s Carnival is being hosted by Ty Tribble of eBay Business Opportunities and we have 9 articles for your review.
This is the first week for Ty Tribble to host the Carnival of eBay Sellers and he’ll be doing it for the entire month of February. If you are interested in hosting in March, let [...]

eBay will double PayPal Buyer Protection on its site, offering up to $2,000 of coverage for qualified transactions on eBay.com, but is eliminating buyer-protection for non-PayPal transactions. The move is a dramatic effort by eBay to push buyers to use its PayPal online-payment service at a time when it faces increasing competition from Google Checkout, [...]

Homestead.com has offered website hosting since 1998. As an online
seller, you can choose between two main offerings. Homestead’s
web-hosting service allows you to add a PayPal shopping cart if you
want to sell items. And Storefronts is a full-featured ecommerce
service that uses eBay’s ProStores technology (formerly Kurant) and
integrates with eBay and PayPal.
Homestead Websites
The Homestead [...]

If you run a profitable eBay business, full-time or part-time, you may be able to gain tax relief and build up retirement savings through a qualified retirement plan and/or IRA. For example, if you net $40,000 from an eBay business and make a tax-deductible contribution of $5,000 to a retirement plan, you only pay income [...]

Since eBay established its affiliate marketing program in 2001, its network has grown to 50,000 affiliates worldwide, with eBay employees dedicated to managing specific geographic regions and paying out millions a month in rewards for driving eBay sales.
Recently, ClickZ sat down with Lily Shen, senior manager of the program, to discuss its inner workings and [...]

EBay is out to snag more marketing dollars from the nation’s automobile dealers.
The online auction giant unrolled a new service today that allows dealers to post their entire inventory online for one price and have it viewed by a local audience.
Called eBay Motors Local Market, the subscription-based feature will let dealers list their used-vehicle inventory [...]

Boston Welcomes eBay Community for 6th Annual eBay Live! ConferenceEarly Registration Now Open for Three-Day Event.
Attendee registration begins today for eBay’s (Nasdaq:EBAY) sixth annual community conference, eBay Live!, which will take place at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center June 14-16. The three-day event is expected to bring together more than 10,000 eBay buyers and [...]

For those who are on the bleeding edge of Skype-ness, version 2.5 for Mac has come out of beta today and is now available for download as a final version. The final release is actually version 2.5.0.85, for everyone keeping track.

The new point release for the popular VoIP service supports sending SMS messages to [...]