Archive for December 27th, 2006
eBay’s Bargain Listing Day Isn’t What It Used To Be.
If you’ve been waiting to unload some of those gifts you just don’t want, longtime eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) fans know that today offers an opportunity to post them at a discounted listing fee. All day today, $0.15 will serve as your insertion fee for fixed-price and more conventional auction-style items in most categories. Naturally, any [...]
Former eBay COO Moves on To LiveOps Start Up
A former executive at online auctioneer eBay Inc. has come out of a short-lived retirement to take a job leading Silicon Valley startup LiveOps, which contracts with companies to handle customer service and sales calls. Maynard Webb, 51, left his position as eBay’s chief operating officer in August after seven years with the company. He [...]
eBay & Domino’s Partner Up for Treasure Hunt Deals
Domino’s Pizza is teaming up with eBay to create an online treasure hunt for clues leading to $9.99 “Buy It Now” offers for Apple iPods, flat screen TVs, and other prizes. The “Anything Goes Deal” from Domino’s runs from January 1 to February 5. An offline component lets customers buy any pizza for $9.99. The [...]
Learn From eBayers Who Have Gone Before You
To succeed in the eBay business market a seller needs to master advanced strategies. It would be logical to conclude that the best people to learn these strategies from would be successful eBay sellers. But the problem is finding these successful eBay sellers. Once you do find them you can monitor their auctions and learn [...]
Government Seek More Buyers Through eBay
Government agencies of all sizes have surplus assets which they seek to dispose of. Prior to eBay, their methods for disposal of assets were pretty limited. Agencies could run auctions, contact liquidators, or simply dispose of the assets as waste. Auctions would often deliver the highest dollar return but faced the issue of lack of [...]
eBay Objects to Tiffany & Co. Lawsuit Evidence
AuctionBytes: When Tiffany & Co. sued eBay in 2004, it said 73% of items purchased on eBay in a study it conducted were counterfeit. eBay wants the testimony of Tiffany’s expert excluded due to the methodology in coming up with those statistics. On October 6, 2006, eBay filed a motion in limine (http://digbig.com/4qknn) to exclude [...]
eBay Survey Finds Returns and ReGifting Trending Upwards
Web Site Host Directory: According to the third annual Holiday Re-Gifting Survey commissioned by e-commerce company, eBay, a significant increase of Americans believe they will either return, or ”re-gift” holiday items received, this season. According to the report, 57 percent of the vast majority of Americans, will receive holiday presents they aren’t fond of. Sixty-nine [...]
Inventor Hopes Alarm Clock Becomes Runaway Hit
The Boston Globe: “Clocky” is finally up and running. It’s running away from drowsy owners reaching over to shut it off and go back to sleep. Clocky’s inventor, Gauri Nanda , a 27-year-old entrepreneur who graduated from MIT last year, said she hoped that her small launch last week — only “a couple of thousand” [...]
Entrepreneur’s Niche Is Good News For Brides
BellevilleNewsDemocrat.com: After discovering how expensive specialty wedding merchandise can be — products such as bridesmaids’ jewelry, garters, ring pillows and personalized cake servers — Howard Fox created a Web site devoted solely to the small items that make a wedding day unique for the bride and groom. “I was looking for another business and I [...]
Jessica Ek at Work.com: It’s time to take your hobby to the next level. Many eBay stores that have started out as modest side businesses have grown to become full-time jobs. And no matter what size the operation, an eBay store that is run like a business will be most successful when treated as such. [...]
Commute Turned Her Into Entrepreneur
NorthJersey.com: Camille Cerria refers to it simply as the “puppy sale.” In other words, one look at the puppy and the sale is in the bag. Cerria, of Oak Ridge, views her job in a similar light. As sole proprietor of Smooth Sailing Celebrations, Cerria matches people arranging parties with the operators of a handful [...]
Rare Velvet Underground Record Sells on eBay
KWTX: The rare Velvet Underground acetate has sold on eBay for far less than the first auction, but that was revealed to be a prank anyway. The rare version of “The Velvet Underground and Nico” sold on eBay Thursday for $25,200 to an unknown bidder. The original supposed winning bid was for more than $155,000 [...]
Geoff Kohl at Work.com: A webinar, or “web seminar�, allows you to hold a live presentation for a group of people without everyone in the same room, or even the same state. With a webinar, attendees watch a presentation (much like a PowerPoint slide show presentation) and simultaneously listen to the speaker(s). Attendees also can [...]
Man Sells Stolen Computers to Police on eBay
Record Eagle: A Lake Ann man was arrested for selling two stolen computers to police through the popular Internet auction site eBay. Michael Lee Johns, 24, faces two felony charges after police said he stole two computers from Interlochen Center for the Arts, where he was hired as an independent contractor to install dozens of [...]
Top 30 Celebrity eBay Auctions for 2006
It’s the end of the year, so what better time to take stock of Bayraider’s favourite celeb auctions from the past 12 months? Especially as it’ll give me time to nip down to Woolworths and finish my Christmas shopping. Anyway, I’ve spent 2006 ferreting out the most interesting eBay listings, some of which haven’t been [...]
Make Money with eBay’s Affiliate Program
affiliatetip.com: eBay Web Services for Affiliates, a presentation by Alan Lewis at Affiliate Summit 2006 East, is now available as a transcript. Alan Lewis is a technical evangelist with the eBay Developers Program and has been at eBay since 2004. He helps developers and affiliates use the eBay Web Services platform to develop applications that [...]
