Archive for March, 2007

Phil Dunn on eBay Seller Central thinks that entrepreneurs with eBay Stores have a doomed business model:
eBay Stores offered many sellers an easy to list fixed price goods and move unsold auction items to a static listing with cheap fees and long durations (e.g. 30 days or good til canceled). But the model could be […]

PayPal, the online-payment company owned by eBay., said Friday that it plans to launch a new service this year designed to make it easier to pay for items using cell phones and other mobile devices.
Cell phone users can currently buy items through PayPal using the standard version of the service that Internet retailers use on […]

Online auction house eBay has pulled a sale of six iPhones from its site, saying that it is not confident that the seller can deliver within 30 days.
Bidding was frenzied for the phones, which are not due to be released for another six months. The top bid had reached $1,125 before the auction was stopped.
“Thanks […]

A Bulgarian woman has been arrested and charged with participating in a scheme that used eBay to scam Americans out of at least $350,000. Her alleged fraud is similar to dozens of scams found on the auction site daily.
Mariyana Feliksova Lozanova, a.k.a. “Gentiane La France,” a.k.a. “Naomi Elizabeth DeBont,” was indicted for conspiracy to commit […]

A woman from Woodstock, Ill., recently rediscovered a 1940 NFL championship watch that once belonged to the Chicago Bears’ Gary Famiglietti.
The watch was from the 1940 championship in which the Bears beat the Washington Redskins 73-0, the most-lopsided title victory in league history, the Chicago Sun-Times said.
Holly Swanson’s husband, who has passed away, received the […]

Just released by Entrepreneur Media Inc., Entrepreneur’s eBay Startup Guide is now on newsstands to help small business owners tap into a network of 222 million registered eBay members worldwide. The fifth issue of the magazine marks eBay’s still-burgeoning success and its virtually limitless business opportunities for entrepreneurs.
“Since we started publishing the eBay Startup Guide […]

Even if it’s baked, canned or cured, chances are you can still buy it on eBay.
With an increasing number of home cooks throwing their oven doors open to the global marketplace, more than 400 items labeled “homemade” appeared in eBay’s Food and Wine category one day this month - from chow chow to chokecherry jelly.
“People […]

STELLA McCartney’s clothing line may have been a hit for Target, but potential profiteers have had a reality check on internet auction site eBay.
While more than 4000 items from the collection have been listed for sale online since it was launched on March 12, only about half have sold.
Only a few have made big profits. […]

The idea of buying clothing at Target (NYSE:TGT) and then selling it on eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) for six times as much a week later seems crazy. In fact, I would argue that it is crazy: If you have enough money to spend six times as much on a skirt as it costs at Target, why are […]

One of the cheapest places to buy software is eBay, where merchants sell programs that come directly from manufacturers, saving them from paying a markup to distributors.
But it may also be a risky place to shop, as it can be tough to discern good values from scams.
Consumers Union–which tracks Web retailers and advises consumers on […]