Archive for February 20th, 2006

Overstock does away with 1-day auctions

AuctionBytes: Overstock Auctions is doing away with 1-day duration listings. Sellers will still have a choice of running auctions for 3, 5, 7 and 10 days. Previously sellers were required to have a business rating of at least 10 to post a 1-day auction. The Overstock Auctions post announcing the change said it was being [...]

 

Former eBay Executive Running for Governor

Napa Valley Register: (Steve) Westly, a former executive with eBay who made a fortune off the Internet company’s stock, remains a virtual unknown even though he has been active in party politics for years. A Field Poll conducted in November found that 66 percent of Democratic voters had no opinion of him. The initial phase [...]

 

Pricepirates Key Word Software for eBay and Amazon

IrishDev.com: Buyertools Ltd has launched the first free of charge price comparison program, checking eBay auctions against thousands of online stores. The new software called “Pricepirates” finds relevant offers from merchants listed at Shopping.com, the world’s largest product catalog, and on the Amazon Marketplace. Christoph Berndt, Managing Director of Buyertools Ltd says “The application checks [...]

 

Carnival Of Marketing

This week’s Carnival Of Marketing is up at Simplenomics .

 

Problems with Pay Pal

Times Online: While fears about internet fraud have fuelled the success of the eBay auction site’s e-money provider PayPal, a growing number of customers are concerned about its service standards and accountability. Daniel Eddy, 23, used to be a big fan of PayPal until he sold a DVD on eBay. He said: “I got back [...]

 

Carnival of Personal Finance

This week’s Carnival of Personal Finance is up at Free Money Finance.

 

Real Estate Listings To Blogs and eBay

eBay had better pay attention to this new technology. Blogs have the potential to become the next eBay. Now more than ever, eBay sellers are looking for alternatives to what has been coined “FeeBay”. Wireless Developers Network: Cellstory™, a leading provider of mobile marketing and sales applications for dynamic markets, announced today at the The [...]

 

Carnival of the Capitalists

This week’s Carnival of the Capitalists is up at The Stalwart.

 

links for 2006-02-20

I Will Teach You To Be Rich: Barriers are your enemy I think the source of 95%+ of barriers to success is…ourselves. It’s not our lack of resources (money, education, etc). It’s not our competition. It’s usually just what’s in our own heads. Barriers are more than just excuses–they’re the things that mak (tags: business [...]