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News: Deadbeat Sellers – Watch Out!

Written on December 1, 2005 by Laurie Barak in PayPal, eBay News

Be careful if you’re behind on your payments to eBay… For Seller accounts that have balances more than 180 days overdue, eBay may collect the overdue balance owed from that seller’s PayPal account. The vast majority of our sellers settle their balances on time or before 180 days. eBay will resort to a PayPal withdrawal…

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Weird Wednesday: November 30, 2005

Written on November 30, 2005 by Laurie Barak in Weird Wednesday

Thank you for all the emails from folks who wrote and told me they missed Weird Wednesday last week. Sorry about that, I was on a bit of a break due to the Thanksgiving holiday. But it’s back! Since there is, or will be, an auction for an old jail on eBay, I decided to…

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News: Jail for Sale? You Really CAN Buy ANYTHING on eBay!

Written on November 30, 2005 by Laurie Barak in eBay

Source: AZCentral Here’s another one of those gift ideas for the person who has everything. Randolph County, Missouri officials have decided to sell their old jail on eBay. County leaders say they got the idea to sell the jail from neighboring Howard County, which sold its jail to a Los Angeles lawyer who plans to…

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News: Confidence Classes Auctioned on eBay

Written on November 30, 2005 by Laurie Barak in eBay News

Source: PRWeb A Florida doctor is auctioning off “a one-hour mental coaching session aimed at teaching confidence or any of 7 other critical mental skills important in success.” A performance specialist in business, sports, academics, and healthcare is offering on eBay a one- hour mental coaching session by phone or in person aimed at teaching…

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News: eBay Heads to Court

Written on November 30, 2005 by Laurie Barak in eBay News

Source: Xbiz eBay is headed to court – the U.S. Supreme Court, that is. The online shopping giant’s case stems from an initial 2003 ruling from MercExchange, who accused eBay of infringing on its technology. MercExchange builds patented systems for use in online auctions. “Whichever way the Supreme Court rules on this precedent, eBay will…

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News: E-Tailers – A New Term for This Blogger

Written on November 30, 2005 by Laurie Barak in Internet News

Source: MSNBC This is something new – I’ve never heard of the term “e-tailers”. Instead of retailers, which are your standard walk-in-and-buy-something stores, the phrase e-tailers has been coined for your standard shop-online stores. Of course one of the world’s leading e-tailers is eBay. The day after Thanksgiving is a huge shopping day for many…

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News: A Piece of Hollywood for Christmas

Written on November 26, 2005 by Laurie Barak in eBay News

Source: The San Diego Union Tribune, San Diego, CA Here’s the perfect gift for someone who has everything: The original 1923 “Hollywood” sign. Poker-DVD producer Dan Bliss started selling started selling jewelry welded from the sign. Now he’s unloading the entire international icon on eBay. When I checked the auction site on Saturday about 5…

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eBay: The State-Shaped Nerd

Written on November 22, 2005 by Laurie Barak in eBay

Source: Journal Review (Crawfordsville, Indiana) “OH MY GOSH!” writes James Franklin. “I was just munchin down a box of Nerds candy and guess what I found – A HUGE NERD SHAPED LIKE INDIANA.” Fourteen-year-old Franklin, from Victorville, California, was shocked to find the state-shaped candy and decided to put it up for auction on eBay….

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News: Super Fast Holiday Shipping!

Written on November 22, 2005 by Laurie Barak in eBay News

Source: eBay Here’s an awesome announcement from eBay! Buyers in the US will soon be able to find domestic Sellers that indicate they will ship within one business day after receiving payment, and who offer overnight shipping service with their listing. So if you find the perfect Christmas gift, you could have it overnight. That’s…

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News: Xbox 360s on Pre-Sale at eBay

Written on November 21, 2005 by Laurie Barak in eBay

Source: PhysOrg.com Microsoft‘s Xbox 360, the hottest toy on many kids’ Christmas lists this year, is currently being pre-sold on eBay. About 9,000 of the games have been pre-sold over the past two weeks. The average price was about $550. Microsoft said over 4,500 retailers nationwide will be opening at midnight Tuesday, November 22, 2005…

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