Archive for December 29th, 2006
Domino’s Pizza Has eBay Scavenger Hunt
iMedia:“Domino’s has teamed up with eBay once again for their new, “Anything Goes!” campaign. The scavenger hunt contest on Ebay will accompany Domino’s new promotion which offers any pizza on their menu for $9.99. “As we continued thinking about value, we thought, why stop at pizza for just $9.99? Why not a DVD player or [...]
Inc.com: To help combat bogus eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) seller ratings, which can mislead customers by giving a stamp of approval to fraudulent vendors, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a technique to help validate the scores. EBay fraudsters have found ways to artificially elevate their seller ratings, by conducting transactions with friends or using alternate [...]
Alaska Jet Back on eBay After Not Selling
adn: As time ran out to bid online for Alaska’s state jet Thursday, the biggest spender was willing to pay only about $1.9 million for the used Westwind II. It wasn’t enough, and no one won the 22-year-old aircraft. That doesn’t mean the auction is over, said Meghan Stapleton, spokeswoman for Gov. Sarah Palin. The [...]
eBay Buy It Now Patent Lawsuit
MercExchange will have 3 months to put together a new brief in support of its motion for permanent injunction against eBay’s Buy It Now feature, which generates 34 percent of eBay’s Gross Merchandise Sales on the eBay platform. Likewise, eBay will have until March 16, 2007, to prepare a final brief for its motion for [...]
Daily Mail: But what of all those people we see in the sales snapping up discounted cards and wrapping paper for next year? Would any of them be prepared to buy the whole of next year’s Christmas a year in advance? I put my entire Christmas on eBay on Boxing Day to find out. The [...]
eBay Auction Listings Up Due to 15 Cent Listing Day
AuctionBytes: The number of eBay.com auction listings rose over 56 percent in 1 day this week due to a post-Christmas promotion for sellers. According to MedVed data, there were fewer than 9 million listings (derived by counting auction category totals on eBay.com) at the start of day December 27, 2006, and by the end of [...]
eBay Powerseller Offers Tips on StartupNation Radio
XTV World: Kevin Harmon joins StartupNation Radio to discuss how to start and grow a successful eBay business. Who: In 2002, Kevin Harmon started Inflatable Madness, http://inflatablemadness.com, selling media online such as DVD’s, CD’s, video games, and books. Kevin lists over 400,000 items on his eBay store every month and has the third largest store [...]
Virtual Debit Card Beta Puts PayPal One Step Ahead
The PayPal division of eBay, which operates the Web’s most respected online payment voucher system, is beginning beta trials of a next-generation online payment system, in cooperation with MasterCard. Using what’s described as a virtual debit card, a customer will be able to make a PayPal-authorized purchase using a one-time number good only for that [...]
Rarely would I allow for my first shot in a duel to come from user-managed Web reference Wikipeda, which has come under fire for poor sourcing. But I just can’t resist. Quoting from its entry on Minnesota’s legendary Mall of America: “Mall of America is … the most visited shopping mall in the world, with [...]
Busy Travelers Snap Up Ipods From Vending Machines
Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Anita Leopold has a little surprise for anyone who thinks vending machines were created to dispense lightly salted snack food and sugar-laced temptations. The top treat in the sleek, high-tech machines operated by her company and ZoomSystems at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport is a top-of-the-line Apple iPod that fetches $349 before tax. It comes [...]
New Invention Sends Velcro ‘Down the Drain’
PRNewswire: It’s the new way to open a slow-running drain – a velcro-tipped, disposable drain snake called FlexiSnake. “It’s one of those ‘why didn’t I think of that’ types of discoveries,” says local businessman turned inventor, Scott Turner. “It may just replace chemical drain cleaners for bathroom drain hair clogs.” Turner started his own company, [...]
Advertisers Hope To Cash In Big With Niche Marketing
AZcentral.com: Selling a message to a whole body of people isn’t nearly as effective as reaching just the part of the group that wants to hear your pitch. The concept is niche marketing, and is widely considered to be the hottest, smartest approach to advertising today. If you have a computer and an e-mail address, [...]
Web Site For Die-Hard Cheddar Fans
FoxNews.com: Some might call watching cheese mold a bit … dry … but for die-hard cheddar lovers, there’s now a Web site where you can do just that at any hour of the day or night. “Cheddarvision” is a new concept envisioned by the West Country Farmhouse Cheesemakers group, reported Scotland’s Daily Record. The site [...]
End-of-the-Year Tasks to Handle Now
Ty Freyvogel at Entrepreneur.com: If you’re like most business owners, you’ve got a huge list of tasks that stay perpetually on the back burner. Now’s the time to tackle those tasks with a vengeance, because leaving your business problems behind in 2006 is the best way to start 2007 off with a clean slate. 1. [...]
Press Release: Skype launched skySpace, the only media-centric social networking software. skySpace will multiply the volume and quality of information shared among Skype’s 136 million users, creating a new market category. skySpace empowers Skype users to tell stories by sharing their photos, video, audio, and documents via their skySpace homepage—either privately or to the community [...]
Mpire Shopping Plug In for Firefox
Mpire.com: The smart online shopping companion has arrived and is ready to work for you! Download the Mpire plugin and look for the M icon on your favorite sites such as Amazon, eBay, Craigslist, Newegg, Toys-R-Us, Walmart, Target, and many, many more. It will give you invaluable information about your favorite products, including price graphs, [...]
