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Source: Time Online Edition
Time offers a great interview with eBay CEO Meg Whitman. You can link to the complete interview by clicking here.
A quote from Whitman on eBay’s acquisition of Skype: “It can create a new way for buyers and sellers to communicate. It actually will help us get into new categories. For example, if […]

There’s a great article by Frank Fortunato on ecommerce-guide.com on how to sell books online. He offers tips and tricks as well as solutions, how to use listing services and more. Check it out here:
Fortunato article - Part 1
Fortunato article - Part 2

Source: TechDirt
Okay, obviously, misusing a contact lens can do some amount of damage, but doesn’t it seem like a bit of overkill to only let doctors sell them? Some US states have banned online contact lens selling, as well — but it is apparently completely illegal in the United Kingdom.
However, people still try to […]

Source: The Auto Channel
It’s big. It’s bad. It’s up for bid on eBay.
Inspired by Lincoln’s Mark LT (Lincoln is a Ford Motor Company brand) luxury truck and built by well-known custom motorcycle builders Orange County Choppers of The Discovery Channel’s “American Chopper,” the Mark LT Chopper is valued at $150,000. Lincoln will list the distinctive […]

Hello, Weird Wednesday followers! It’s Weird Wednesday again!
It gets more and more difficult to find things each week. I am finding there are many items on eBay’s “Everything Else” categories, but not very many I can share with you — this is a family-friendly blog
I didn’t have a theme this week so here […]

Source: The Register (UK science & technology web site)
On the day that eBay increases its charges for selling items upstart rival online auctioneer eBid is putting the boot in by offering free listings for life.
eBid is promising free “Gold” membership - which includes free listing of items and zero final value fees - to anyone […]

Source: eBay
eBay is now offering reviews and guides by category for those shopping for products on eBay. This is really innovative and interesting. Check it out today!
eBay Reviews & Guides

Source: Wall Street Journal
Marcia Cooper and Harvey Levine of New Jersey hoped for a blissful retirement — until they both were laid off from their jobs. They hadn’t planned to quit working so soon and hadn’t saved enough. Feeling unprepared to compete with 20-year-olds in the traditional job market, the 60-something couple turned to eBay.
Ms. […]

Source: eCommerceTimes
In the late 1990s, Amazon became notorious for its disastrous Internet investments. Its voracious appetite for buying stakes in other retailers — such as Pets.com, Kozmo.com and Bellevue, Washington-based HomeGrocer.com — carried forward a lesson justified by its successful Internet launch in 1995: Being first on the scene was equivalent to being the scene.
One […]

Source: eCommerceTimes
The Federal Bureau of Investigations and other federal law enforcement agencies are investigating allegations of fraud by small charities — or organizations posing as such charities — that arose in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Online bill payment service PayPal, stepping up its security in response to the concerns over online theft of funds […]