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Source: eBay

Last week at eBay Live! 2005, Bill Cobb, President of eBay North America, announced a new policy for listings featured on eBay’s home page using the Home Page Featured listing upgrade. Due to their high visibility, we want to make sure that listings being promoted on the home page maintain the credibility of the […]

Source: The Washington Post
What started as a hobby for many has overtaken careers and personal lives, transforming them as a new form of commerce takes shape online. Now that thousands of eBay entrepreneurs have years of selling under their belts, they are wrestling with serious issues of scale.
Eventually, high-volume sellers often buy a small warehouse […]

Source: PRNewswire

Marketworks – the Atlanta-based provider of sales automation software and marketing services for multi-channel sales – selected three outstanding sellers out of more than 4,000 customers to win prestigious performance awards.
Adam Hersh Auctions, Jewelers3 (formerly ACTrading), and Game Liquidations were honored at Marketworks’ Awards Ceremony in San Jose, California during eBay’s 10th annual […]

Source: eWeek

Two men and one woman were sentenced to prison terms Tuesday after pleading guilty to defrauding home improvement giants The Home Depot Inc. and Lowe’s Companies Inc. of more than $200,000 by selling improperly obtained store cards and merchandise on eBay.
David Oliver, 36, was sentenced to three years, 10 months in prison. Accomplices Mindy […]

Source: MSNBC
Thinking about starting an eBay business? MSNBC has an article by Cliff Ennico of Entrepreneur.com that gives you some basic steps but very important guidelines.
Here’s a brief overview:
1. Register your business with state and local tax authorities. eBay businesses are retail businesses, so remember your state’s sales tax.
2. What will you sell? Think about […]

Source: MSNBC
Think you know everything about eBay? Well, maybe you haven’t heard about these 10 little items MSNBC dug up about the Internet selling megasite.
Here’s a brief overview:
1. eBay has over 135 million customers.
2. eBay conducts more transactions daily than the New York Stock Exchange.
3. If it was a retail store, eBay would be the […]

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, it’s time once again for …

WEIRD WEDNESDAY
Where I look up some weird auctions on eBay and share them with y’all for fun.
Last week I asked for emails on what you wanted to see on WW. I got an email from Janine in Lubbock, Texas saying she had just watched […]

I was looking for some things for Weird Wednesday and came across this apple shaped like a tush up for auction on eBay.
Okay, it really does look like a baby’s bottom. The goofy Seller, ShortBusAuctions, has sold such odd items as toast with the word “stop” scraped into it (a la “the runaway bride”), his […]

Source: ecommercetimes
eBay’s new ProStores service will allow sellers to design their own fixed-price e-commerce site with a unique Web address. The service, which starts at US $6.95 per month with fees ranging from 0.5 percent to 1.5 percent of transactions, will allow users to link their custom-built site to their eBay site and use PayPal, […]

Source: The Houston Chronicle
Jeff Skoll, the billionaire former president of eBay, and actor Robert Redford have teamed up for projects designed around philanthropy and filmmaking. One of the results is The New Heroes, a PBS documentary series.
The series, which focuses on a globe-spanning group of “social entrepreneurs” who want to use business strategies to finance […]