Archive for December 5th, 2006
Jail Time for eBay Ticket Scam
A YOUNG man has been locked-up for six months for selling non-existent tickets to online music fans. Adam Cuthbertson, 21, of Penarth Road, Cardiff, was caught out when police arrived at his home following complaints from shoppers over the tickets sold on auction site eBay. He had been banned from the site, but changed his [...]
Shopping eBay For All Your Holiday Needs
You won’t find Marsha Collier fighting for a mall parking space on the Friday after Thanksgiving. The author of Santa Shops on eBay and eBay for Dummies practices what she preaches and does all of her holiday shopping at the world’s biggest auction site. Collier, who lives in Los Angeles, recently chatted with Rocky Mountain [...]
eBay Seeks German Executives Help in US
Current eBay Europe head Philipp Justus will be switching to corporate headquarters in San José on January 1 to direct the entire group. The 37-year-old German will be the first European to direct the core business of the largest of the group’s 33 marketplaces, eBay announced on Friday. Before being appointed head of European business [...]
Taking Small Business on the Road
BusinessWeek.com: Tim Kennedy, co-owner of Office Lube, decided to create a mobile oil change company that works the corporate parking lots on scheduled days of the month. Though Kennedy admits his company wasn’t the first to provide such a service, he says the market is underserved. His business has caught on fast, and sales have [...]
MetroWest Daily News: Holiday shoppers are lighting up the Internet in hopes of chopping the price down for Christmas trees. Tree dealers welcome the comparison shopping, saying it’s helping business. PickYourOwnChristmasTree.org, Christmas-trees.org and Christmas-Tree.com are among the sites driving customers to call the farm. The news comes just in time for consumers who face increased [...]
Niche Biz: Graduating Students
Pressroom.UPS.com: Mary Wayman wanted her son to finish college in four years. During her son’s college planning, she realized that few parents recognized the startling statistics associated with college entry and college graduation: Only half of all college entrants will obtain a college degree. Of those students that remain in college, 80 percent will need [...]
Million Dollar Homepage Entrepreneur Launches New Site
Pocket-Lint: The man behind the million dollar homepage is at it again, this time with a carrot in the form of a million dollars to lure advertisers to his crowded webspace. Alex Tew will make Pixelotto live December 5th. It works along similar lines to the million dollar homepage, in that it sells pixels for [...]
Entrepreneur Aiming To Clean Up Ovens
The Franchise Magazine: Peter Wetzel has swapped a career as a sales director for a cleaning products company to become his own boss. He has purchased an Ovenu franchise, which is popular with householders across the UK, taking the pain out of one of the most hated and neglected chores. Since 1994 Ovenu’s UK-wide network [...]
