Archive for March 27th, 2007

  • PayPal to Launch Cell Phone Friendly Service

    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 [...]

  • eBay Stopped Auctions on Apple iPhone

    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 [...]

  • Bulgarian Women Arrested in eBay Scam

    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 [...]

  • 1940 Chicagp Bears Watch Going on eBay?

    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 [...]

  • eBay’s Startup Guide for Entrepreneurs Now On Newsstands

    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 [...]

  • Bake Sale eBay Style

    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 [...]