Archive for the 'eBay Trends' Category

The Hub:
Random antiques, sports equipment, dirty magazines - you name it and Jacob Plaunt, 20, of East Lansing, could probably help you sell it. Well, not the dirty magazines.
As assistant manager of iSOLD It, he’s helped customers sell pretty much anything and everything. If you’ve seen “The 40-Year-Old Virgin” then you get the concept. [...]

ComputerWorld:
EBay and Amazon.com this week announced extensions to their content syndication capabilities, the latest example of e-commerce players using this popular technology to facilitate the flow of product information to potential buyers in order to help spur sales.
EBay now lets its Web-site visitors create content-syndication feeds for searches they conduct on its online marketplace, the [...]

AuctionBytes:
eBay is a popular marketplace for all kinds of photo gear, from the newest digital cameras to rare antiques and accessories. And since photography is one of the most popular and accessible hobbies in the world, I find that my company’s consignment sellers, called FoundValue eSpecialists(TM), are often asked by clients to sell camera equipment.
As [...]

auctionbytes:

gNumber Inc. secured $1.5 million in venture funding. Accent Texas Fund I, L.P. led the round with participation from Aegis Texas Venture Fund, DFJ Mercury, and Gefinor Ventures. Funding will be used to expand marketing and product development for UnWired Buyer, a real-time mobile bidding solution for eBay users in the U.S.
UnWired Buyer [...]

Toronto Sun:
If the human body is the last frontier for advertising space, then St. Louis resident Asia Francis is helping chart new territory — the big, pregnant belly.
Francis, 21, auctioned off the advertising rights to her pregnancy on eBay. The winning bid of $1,000 US went to a California Internet comp-any, giving it exclusive [...]

Open PR:

Personal Ponies Ltd., an International non-Profit organization, dedicated to raising and providing UK Shetland Ponies to children with disabilities, is using a new twist on eBay Auctions to generate funding. What does this organization have to auction? The right to name a new baby pony, of course!
“The high-bidder will have the [...]

Business Wire:
Net2Auction, Inc. today provided an update on acquisition initiatives to fuel growth of its eBay drop-off location business.
The Company invited potential acquisition candidates to submit RFP’s (request for proposals) to have their eBay drop-off company or chain of eBay drop-off locations acquired by Net2Auction.
Delmar Janovec, Net2Auction President, noted, “Management has begun discussions with [...]

AuctionBytes:
This week we launched the “Features” channel on AuctionBytes.TV and have kicked off with two interviews (http://auctionbytes.tv/features). In the first, eBay consignment company NextWorth discusses their business model. In the second, bonding company BuySafe discusses online auction fraud and describes what happened when one of its clients - Glacier Bay DVD - had to suddenly [...]

Times Argus:
Google Inc. has expanded its online payment service so that users can buy and sell everything from bicycle brakes to Beanie Babies through its Web site, posing an immediate challenge to eBay Inc.
Google added the payment service to its nascent Google Base classified listings Friday, an expected move that nonetheless sends shockwaves through the [...]

AuctionBytes:
“You should sell it on eBay!” is fast becoming today’s knee-jerk reaction to anyone who comes across an item they don’t know what to do with. And, like the physician who is approached at a party with a litany of aches and pains, or the lawyer who is expected to write up his brother’s will [...]