Archive for April, 2007

Consider this the ultimate spring cleaning: Lisa Perry, a 45-year-old lawyer and self-described pack rat, is selling nearly all of her belongings — minus her dog, cat, photo albums and a stack of underwear — on EBay.

Dog not included
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The auction — entitled “Everything Perry Owns!!” — began Tuesday and is set to [...]

eBay announced a “proactive fraud reduction” initiative on Monday that extends one of its current Trust & Safety policies - an anti-counterfeiting initiative launched in November - that includes a policy of delaying some listings containing items that are most favored by fraudsters from becoming viewable in search results. The new listings are still viewable [...]

Imagine this. Some large brand companies believe that 99% of the items sold under their names on Ebay (NASDAQ: EBAY) are counterfeit. Louis Vuitton and Christian Dior are suing the online auction company to try to get fake versions of their products off Ebay’s site.According to the FT; “One designer clothing and accessories brand said [...]

Here’s an example of a problem eBay users reported having this week, started April 9, possibly fixed as of today. Here is a problem that started on April 9 (or earlier)
Glitches are one of the most difficult problems to track down. A problem may be due to a particular user’s software configuration, of course (thus [...]

Skype today released Skype 2.6 Beta for Mac, the latest version of the company’s popular communication software. New to this release of Skype for Mac is Call Transfer. This feature enables you to transfer ongoing Skype calls to other users on your Skype contact list. The new release also features improved audio quality and better [...]

CABLE NETWORK EXECUTIVES WERE CAUGHT off-guard by the proposed eBay auction system because of one glaring component: the price.
Which explains, in part, why the Cabletelevision Advertising Bureau (CAB) rejected the idea. Participating cable networks would need to pay a 2% fee for each transaction–an enormous price, said one veteran cable advertising sales executive. “Two percent [...]

Forbes published a column today about eBay’s Meg Whitman, “Does eBay Need A New Boss?” adding to speculation about Whitman’s chances of sticking around at eBay as her 10-year anniversary looms.

eBay says Whitman is in the top-spot for the long term, but Forbes looks to Wall Street for dissent. The author, Rachel Rosmarin, quotes Jeetil [...]

Online-payment service PayPal is considering using USB tokens embedded with smart card technology to secure e-commerce for consumers, Card Technology has learned.
A spokeswoman for PayPal, part of giant Internet auction house eBay, says the company is “working with” France-based smart card vendor Gemalto on the USB devices. “We have not deployed any of the technology [...]

New versions of Skype for Windows and Mac have been available for a little while now, and while the CG staff was quick to download the latest versions of the free VoIP app, we’re a little concerned that some of our readers haven’t heard the call, so to speak.
To make Skype even freer, the company [...]

eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) opened at $34.20. So far today the stock has hit a low of $33.85 and a high of $33.65. As of 1:15, EBAY is trading at $33.65, down $0.07 (-0.2%).
After hitting a one year high of $40.82 in April 2006, the stock has been met with resistance just above $34 over [...]