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Source: BBC News
The Darkness singer Justin Hawkins paid £350 (about $609 US) for a copy of his own band’s new album on eBay a month before its release to stop it being leaked. The CD was sent to a small number of record company figures and journalists around the world but found its way onto […]

Source: The Seattle Times (Seattle, Washington)
Google, targeting the online auction market dominated by eBay, is seeking to patent a system that creates Internet ads automatically and makes it easier for people to sell products on the Web.
Google Automat will let advertisers enter details of items they want to sell and automatically create an ad “in […]

Source: 10News (San Diego, California)
Some consumers are discovering that when they bid on eBay, they’re opening a portal to problems.
Tina Schimke and her husband, Dwayne, began having trouble with eBay when they placed a bid on a bike from what looked to be a legitimate seller, San Diego television station KGTV reported. “He had quite […]

Source: The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, Maryland)
This fall, the federal government finished improvements to Firstgov, its Internet sales portal, which directs users to more than 100 web sites hawking items to the public - from archived American folk music recordings to Lamborghinis once driven by drug lords.
Each federal agency’s links direct users to different sites, some […]

Source: The Independent (London, England)
A leading fashion designer was forced to watch helplessly as a stolen collection of her hand-made clothes was sold for a fraction of its value on eBay. Jessica Ogden said she had notified both eBay and the police that her stolen clothes were being openly sold, but neither took action. […]

Source: TVNZ (New Zealand)
A teenager who swindled eBay customers out of thousands now wants to advise the internet auction site on how to tackle online criminals. Phillip Shortman, 18, of south Wales, was sentenced to 12 months’ detention in May this year after duping customers out of $113,400 NZ (about $78,123 US).
Shortman’s crimes funded a […]

Source: 9News (Denver, CO)
For $600,000, a 40- to 60-year-old man can buy a house in a trendy Denver, Colorado neighborhood that comes complete with a bride.
Deborah Hale, 48, has set up a web site offering to sell her home to a compatible man who wants to spend his life with her. “I’m trying to […]

Source: South Bend (Indiana) Tribune
Here’s a bright idea: a Hurricane Katrina memorial light switch cover. It’ll cost you 10 bucks. No? How about a Katrina relief bracelet, or several hundred, in as many colors as a box of Lucky Charms? Not so much?
Maybe a can of Anheuser-Busch drinking water. The can says “Not for sale,” […]

Source: CNN
Google Inc. has unintentionally provided a sneak peek at what appears to be a looming expansion into classified advertising - a free service that might antagonize some of the Internet search engine’s biggest customers, including online auctioneer eBay Inc.
Screen shots of the experimental service, dubbed “Google Base,” appeared on several Web sites Tuesday shortly […]

Source: Baltimore Business Journal
Looking for another way to heighten consumer interest in HD radio technology, iBiquity Digital has turned to eBay.
The company announced this week that today it has started a trade-in program on eBay designed to help consumers turn in their old analog radios to receive a rebate on a new HD radio receivers […]