Archive for 2007

eBay will be spending millions on new ads targeting web, television and movie viewers this fall. Featuring the slogan, “It’s better when you win it”, the ads show people racing after a radio, much like horses or dogs race on a track. The ads also end with another slogan “shop victoriously”.
According to eBay […]

O.J. Simpson, the former National Football League star acquitted in 1995 of killing his ex-wife, is at it again. Getting arrested. Keeping himself in the spotlight. And watching his stuff sell on eBay.
Early indications say that more Simpson items are selling briskly (this past week, 302 items were sold on eBay compared to 106 the […]

Got VOIP?

I do, and I’ve come to believe that a fool and his land line are soon parted. I’m using Computerworld’s voice over IP system, but until some sticky issues get resolved I’m hanging onto my land line. Skype is fun. So far, corporate VOIP is not.
Some people think that I’m an expert in […]

Internet auction site eBay has removed an unusual lot - the country of Belgium. Bidding had reached 10 million euro before eBay withdrew the spoof sale.

It was put up for sale by former journalist Gerrit Six who wanted to protest that Belgium still had no government, 100 days after its elections. The advert said: “Belgium […]

Time was, small-business owner Evan Prytherch considered eBay (EBAY) capable of performing e-commerce magic. Prytherch would list his entire music-accessory inventory on the auction Web site and within days it all seemed to disappear. Sold.
But in recent years, much of that magic is gone, Prytherch says. Shoppers are simply not buying all the inventory anymore. […]

LowAuctionSeller:
Ok – What if you are selling bird feeders? The auction closes and you send an email to the customer with payment and shipping information. The last paragraph of the email says, “Would you be interested in my book, How To Attract Songbirds To Your Yard? You can read about it by Clicking Here.” (The […]

USA Today:
Triss Budoff of Houston spent about $1,000 on 25 Rafe handbags that were available for a limited time at Target. But Budoff didn’t use the purses. Instead, she posted 10 of them on eBay and earned about $750 in profit.
“I viewed it as a low-risk investment,” Budoff says. “Anything I didn’t sell I could […]

According to Scot Wingo, CEO of Channeladvisor and author of eBay Strategies (and I just comfirmed by checking a handful of keywords as well), eBay has pulled their Adwords advertising from Google. Apparently this is due to a Google Checkout Party being held at eBay Live.
Here is a snip from Scot’s post: […]

A JEWELLERY company on eBay that allegedly bid on its own auctions to illegally drive up prices by as much as 20 per cent agreed to pay $475,000 in restitution and penalties, the New York state attorney general’s office said.
Ezra Dweck and employees of his company, EMH Group, placed more than 232,000 such bids worth […]

Each year during eBay’s annual conference, the company likes to make splashy announcements (health care insurance for PowerSellers, ProStores web-hosting, and last year - blogs and wikis). This year, eBay CEO Meg Whitman will deliver the keynote on June 14th; joining her will be Bill Cobb (eBay North America) and Rajiv Dutta (PayPal). (Does anyone […]