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Karen Dobos wants a new name.
She feels no connection to her current name (which came from her ex-husband) or to her previous name (she was Karen Paul when she graduated from Poquoson High School in 1994). So she’s ready to let a complete stranger pick her new surname.
For a price.
“The idea really came from joking […]

Lisa and Hugues Deriau started The Frenchy Bee, an eBay store, for fun.
But the business, which features French soaps, chocolates and gourmet items such as escargot and foie gras, was so successful they moved into an office within six months and have moved to larger spaces twice since.
It was no get-rich-quick track, or leisurely hobby […]

Online auction leader eBay reported quarterly results that beat Wall Street expectations and said its outlook for the rest of the year would be at the high end of analysts’ predictions.
Shares of eBayeBay Inc (EBAY)34.45 -0.75 -2.13% Quote | Chart | News | Profile | […]

When Paul Fischer and Gregory Skibbee started eBay jewelry seller Windsor Auctions (eBay User ID: windsorauctions-usa) in 2005, they weren’t sure whether they should try selling internationally. But when Fischer, a 39-year-old Lutz, Florida, entrepreneur, and his 48-year-old co-founder looked more closely at what they would gain by going global, the choice was easy. “The […]

The ultimate piece of Disneyana is available on eBay. Walt Disney’s signed passport is on the auction site and is expected to fetch a hefty price of between $14,000 and $21,600.
The passport was used just once, according to the item description, when he traveled to London right before Mary Poppins was released.
Magical Mountain - Disney […]

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 […]

Shares of online auctioneer eBay jumped in Tuesday’s session after a Bear Stearns analyst raised his first-quarter revenue estimate for the company due to increasing conversion rates and rising average selling prices.
On a day of gains for the broader market, eBay shares rose 80 cents, or 2.4 percent, to close at $33.80 on the Nasdaq […]

The Pope Benedict XVI Mobile from record-breaking auction is back on the block for charity
The car that drew international attention and broke eBay records with over 10 million visitors to its auction page in May 2005, is now going to be put back on the auction block by GoldenPalace.com, the winners of the now famous […]

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 […]

Last summer, there was a seismic shift in the online-auction industry when eBay significantly increased fees for Store inventory and urged sellers to move items from Stores to the core auction platform. These moves came after eBay had heavily promoted Stores and had given Store listings more exposure on core early in the year, leaving […]