Archive for the 'eBay Entrepreneurs' Category

 Associated Press
 An eBay executive warned Wednesday that fewer small businesses would sell products through the Web auctioneer, and elsewhere online, without a permanent ban on Internet access taxes.
Congress first imposed a moratorium on taxing Internet access — which bars state and local governments from taxing the connection to basic Internet content — in 1998. Since [...]

 Kansascity.com
EBay Inc. said sellers who inadvertently are listing recalled items will be sent a message from the company with a copy of its policy forbidding such sales.
“Listing items on eBay which have been recalled is strictly prohibited, and if the Consumer Product Safety Commission asks eBay to remove an item, we will take it down,” [...]

 Internet Financial News
Business Week and the Wall Street Journal are all over eBays latest word on Skype”and that looks to be Whoops. After paying $1.3 billion cash…
…and $1.3 billion stock two years ago, eBay is regretting its decision and partnering with Skype rival Jajah.
eBay reports that theyll be taking a 3rd quarter impairment charge of [...]

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Hemant Mehta was raised in the Jain faith (a religious tradition rooted in India), but became an atheist as a teen. Now in his twenties and a high school math teacher near Chicago, he is active in many groups that promote secularism.
In early 2006, Mehta auctioned himself off on eBay to a Protestant minister, agreeing to attend a variety of church [...]

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 [...]

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 third week for Ty to host the Carnival of eBay Sellers and he’ll be doing it for the entire month of February.
So here we go with this week’s submissions:
Barbra Sundquist presents [...]

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 [...]

Be sure to check out this weeks Carnival of eBay sellers at The Auction Rebel.
The Carnival Of eBay Sellers continues with issue number 11. This morning I received an email with issue 11 in it from Tom along with a note saying he was out of the country, causing a slight delay in getting [...]

An increase in listing fees on Internet auction site eBay has those who use it regularly concerned over what it’s going to mean for their bottom line.
Users recently received an e-mail from Bill Cobb, the San Jose, Calif.-based company’s president of North American Marketplaces, outlining the new pricing structure for eBay and eBay Motors.
The changes [...]

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eBay Web Services for Affiliates, a presentation by Alan Lewis at Affiliate Summit 2006 East, is now available as a transcript.
Alan Lewis is a technical evangelist with the eBay Developers Program and has been at eBay since 2004.
He helps developers and affiliates use the eBay Web Services platform to develop applications that help users sell, [...]