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Source: All Headline News
A man is trying to cash in on a summer fling he claims he had with former “Friends” star Jennifer Aniston.
Michael Baroni is auctioning off a love letter from Aniston, a birthday note she wrote on a piece of toilet paper, a piece of paper has her phone number written in lipstick, [...]

Souce: Webhosting.info
The new phishing scam is sent to target email addresses in an attempt to fool and convince users to sign onto a Web page using their eBay login information.
The web page is not affiliated with eBay and may track the user’s login information in order to steal data.
Identity theft, credit card fraud [...]

Source: Boston Herald
A ring of high school students hawking stolen high-tech calculators on eBay got caught after police tracked down the suspects through the Internet auction site.
Nine juveniles have been charged in the crime spree, which began last September. A total of 109 calculators were stolen and sold on eBay.
Some students took a plea agreement [...]

There are always auctions on eBay auction that support good causes, like childrens’ outreach programs.
But this one was a little different. It was an auction for a 12-foot clam weighing in at 700 pounds.
Before you get out the lemon juice, the clam isn’t a real, living clam - it is a wood, mesh and [...]

Source: The Morningstar News
A Boston man was ordered held on $2,500 bail on Friday after pleading innocent to charges that he collected more than $28,000 from at least four people in a scam in which he sold cars on eBay that he never delivered.
Odilon DeMoura, 22, who also goes by the name Adam DeMoura, was [...]

Open Source & the eBay Community Codebase
This workshop will be held on Monday, July 25th, from 14:00 PDT to 15:00 PDT. The eBay Community Codebase provides developers who are interested in creating open source software applications that use eBay or PayPal Web Services a place to share development resources. This includes a shared code repository [...]

Source: PCWorld
eBay is developing a new search system to help users find products on its online marketplace and a new fraud protection program for its PayPal online payment unit, company President and Chief Executive Officer Meg Whitman said Wednesday.
The new product search system, called Magellan, is being tested now and is the company’s “next generation [...]

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.
I didn’t get any suggestions this week so I just found a bunch of goofy stuff. If you do have an idea for what you want to see [...]

Source: USA Today
Caveat emptor means “buyer beware.”
And some buyers really should have been warned before bidding on some auctions they thought were used clothing - but ended up getting garbage and even feces for their hard-earned money.
The St. Louis man accused of sending the nasty stuff claimed he arranged for the shipments to come [...]

Source: Washington Post
Here’s a funny article by Washington Post staff writer Erica Johnston about buying a car on eBay. Erica’s patience and cool head got her a great deal on the car she’d always wanted.
Click here for the link to the article.