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Source: Auction Wire
Vendio, a leading provider of services that empower merchants to reach consumers and manage online transactions. The Dealio Toolbar operates unobtrusively within a consumer’s Web browser and provides coverage for millions of products from tens of thousands of online merchants of all sizes without requiring consumers to visit a website each time they [...]

Source: Navy Times
Better act fast if you want to bid on a signed, framed portrait of a Doonesbury character on eBay.
To celebrate the 35th birthday of the Doonesbury comic strip, creator Garry Trudeau has allowed his publisher to auction off eight signed, full-color prints on eBay and donate the proceeds to Fisher House,a nonprofit [...]

Source: eBay
eBay will make some changes to the Second Chance Offer feature in several Business & Industrial categories for capital equipment. When an item in one of these categories ends without the Reserve price being met, sellers will be able to send a Second Chance Offer with the price set at any amount below the [...]

Source: eBay
Currently there are a number of categories on eBay where the Seller can use Item Specifics to identify their item condition (e.g., New, Used, Refurbished). Item condition is an important piece of information for buyers, and eBay has found that listings with the item condition specified are more likely to sell.
In the next few [...]

Source: PayPal
PayPal has announced that merchants who accept PayPal can now offer online gift certificates to their customers. Just in time for the holiday shopping season, PayPal enables online businesses of all sizes to set up customized gift certificates, offering their customers more choice when shopping for family and friends.
Merchants pay no startup costs or [...]

Source: PayPal
Dell now accepts PayPal payments from U.S. consumer and small business customers, adding to the company’s many forms of payment options in advance of “Black Friday,” the traditional start of the holiday shopping season.
Tens of millions of online shoppers looking for notebook computers, televisions or music players can pay for Dell purchases with their [...]

Source: eBay
As a special offer to our sellers, eBay will be holding a two-day 1¢ Sale for Subtitle, Gift Services, and Listing Designer starting on November 15, 2005.
The 1¢ Sale will be available on the following sites:
* U.S. (www.ebay.com)
* eBay Motors, for non-vehicle listings only.
The promotion will [...]

Source: HackintheBox
Some customers may be using offshore credit cards to evade paying income taxes and illegally transferring money out of the country. PayPal will likely cooperate with authorities should a federal judge in San Jose, California allow the Internal Revenue Service to request those customer records.
A spokesperson for PayPal said she could not comment [...]

Source: CNN
James Bond’s car — really, the James Bond car –will be going up for auction in January. Cars custom-built for Al Capone and Hank Williams, Jr. will also be for sale at the same event.
The 1964 Aston Martin DB5 driven by the character James Bond in the movies Goldfinger and Thunderball will be sold [...]

Source: O’Reilly Tech
The O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference (ETech) will be held March 6-9, 2006 at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego, California.
Alpha geeks—hackers and other lead users—are a great early warning system for anyone who’s watching the future of technology. What alpha geeks do today can radically alter the future of technology for everyone [...]