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Here are some recent announcements from eBay.
eBay’s Event Catalog is “an optional feature that will help you list your tickets more easily by pre-filling Item Specifics information for you.” Sellers can enter the event name, venue and/or date and eBay will provide the rest of the details. Event Catalog can also automatically generate a map [...]

William Shatner, star of the TV show Boston Legal but best known for being Captain James T. Kirk on Star Trek, is going to try and auction off the kidney stone he recently passed on eBay.
“The tough part will be convincing eBay to let him sell it because they have a strict rule against selling [...]

Source: The Wall Street Journal
When Rick and Elise Wetzel opened their eBay dropoff store, iSold It, they had no idea they would be overwhelmed with hundreds of phone calls every week of people asking them if they could open an iSold It franchise. They sold and opened one franchise, but desperately needed help to sort [...]

Source: The Wall Street Journal
Rumor has it that eBay is going to start offering much more in the way of auto services on eBay Motors.
eBay is considering an area in eBay Motors devoted to helping folks find auto repair shops, oil change service stations and other auto-related services in your geographic area. Right now, [...]

It seems like just about anywhere you go you can hear something about eBay. People are always talking about what they bought, what they sold, the new eBay “it” commercials, something interesting they saw up for sale or how they know someone who knows someone who makes great money selling on eBay.
There are still a [...]

Yes, it’s back! Here’s your Weird Wednesday pre-Thanksgiving weirdness!
Turkey Hat #1
Here’s the first turkey hat I found listed. This one looks like a cartoon turkey and looks like it fits adults. I like the Seller’s eBay store statement that says “Hats so cool you’ll wish you had three heads!”

Turkey hat number one.
Turkey Hat #2
Here’s turkey [...]

Source: Auction Wire
QuikDrop International announced today that total eBay sales surpassed $5.1 million for the month of October at its eBay drop-off retail stores. Driven by strong sales in realestate and eBay Motors as well as over 13,000 completed auctions for consumer items, it represents the first time in eBay’s history that any eBay [...]

Source: Auction Wire
GETitSELLit.com, a new free classifieds website designed to fill the gap between eBay.com and craigslist.org has been launched.
“We’ve created an option for online classifieds,” says founder, Mike Janzen. “The new online marketplace empowers buyers and sellers without fees.”A free membership, available to anyone with a valid email address, includes the ability to post [...]

Source: Auction Wire
VinStickers.com, the leading Internet automotive inventory management site and AuctionPlus, a certified eBay software developer, today announced a new online feature that will allow automotive dealerships a way to seamlessly move vehicles from their VinStickers inventory and list these vehicles for sale on eBay Motors reaching the national market. This new uploading tool [...]

Source: Auction Wire
SquareTrade, the leading provider of smart, protective shopping services for online consumers, today announced the SquareTrade Protection Package, available only when buying from SquareTrade Seal Member merchants on eBay.The SquareTrade Protection Package offers key extended purchase protections to ensure that eBay consumers get what they paid for — whether it’s an iPod, perfume, [...]