Category Archives: Internet News

News: iBiquity Turns to eBay in Effort to Sell Radios

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…

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News: AOL Back on the Auction Block; MSAOL on the Way?

Source: Techdirt From the “so-they-say” department… While Time Warner keeps denying it, for the past few years, it’s been pretty clear that they’d be thrilled to get rid of AOL. If you hadn’t been following, it’s still been many years since the merger and they refuse to actually merge AOL into their Time Warner broadband…

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News: Convicted eBay Fraudster in UK Pays Big Fines

Source: The Register (IT news) A convicted eBay fraudster has been ordered to cough up £70,000 (about $123,000 US dollars) or face an extra two years behinds bars. Simon Hurley sold counterfeit merchandise via the popular auction website. Investigators reckon that between March and December 2003 he flogged some 6,000 items pocketting almost £105,000 (about…

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News: New eBay-Style Site for Games and Hint Books

Source: The Chicago Tribune The new GameSwapZone.com has followed eBay‘s playbook in building a site to buy and sell video games and hint books. Buyers and Sellers are rated; Buyers can end auctions early with the Buy it Now feature; automatic bidding (up to the bidder’s preset limit) is available; and Sellers can set up…

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Resources: Selling Books Online

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

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News: eBay’s UK Rival eBid Offers Free Listings for Life

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 –…

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News: Quietly, Amazon.com is Hunkering Down

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…

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News: Feds Investigating Fraudulent Katrina-Related Web Sites

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…

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News: eBay-Like Web Services Marketplace Debuts

Source: eCommerceTimes StrikeIron is bidding the tool as a way to help businesses put Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) in place, linking CRM applications and Web site commerce applications with real-time data from various sources, including external customer, company and government data. Targeted at developers who want to use the open architecture of Web services to…

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News: Internet Junkie’s Site Takes on eBay

Source: The Detroit News (Michigan) Launched Sept. 1, 31 year-old pizzeria owner Darren Anderson’s site Qwixo.com sells everything from Catherine Malandrino children’s clothing and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs figurines, to pet monkeys and a 7 -inch red boa constrictor. The site also advertises part-time and full-time jobs. Qwixo and eBay are alike in…

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