A company in Bolton, that was created to serve eBay traders, has grown into the biggest online parcel delivery service in the UK.

An online parcel delivery was the brain-child of serial wheeler-dealer Fil Adams-Mercer, who set up Parcel2Go in 2002 primarily to serve eBay traders requiring UK and international courier services.

Mr Adams-Mercer, whose business career began selling bruised fruit, has developed Parcel2Go.com into a £16m a year business with over 600,000 customers.

The key to Parcel2Go’s success has been the heavy investment in a sophisticated customer relationship management (CRM) system. This has cost £2.5m to create, and a further £30,000 a month “and blood, sweat and tears” to run.

Mr Adams-Mercer has designed the company to take and co-ordinates orders that are then fulfilled by Federal Express, UPS and City Link.

“Other companies chase parcels,” he said. “We chase people who may be delivering parcels in the future.”

He is also growing a niche market in the USA. Most American websites will not deliver goods outside the US because of customs bureaucracy. Mr Adams-Mercer has bought a Miami warehouse which British traders can use as their “address” when buying from American sites. Parcel2Go will then arrange parcel delivery from the US.

He is currently studying the possibility of setting up delivery franchises in Spain and France.

Fil Adams-Mercer starred as one of the ‘Secret Millionaires’ in the last series of Channel 4’s show. He was dispatched to a cramped, dirty terraced house in Doncaster to experience what it’s really like to live on Jobseekers’ Allowance.

Mr Adams-Mercer, who is a cancer survivor, donated funds to the Firefly Cancer Charity and other local good causes in Doncaster.

Auction Payment Network (APN), a Proxibid company, announced the industry’s first payment processing solution developed specifically for auction companies. APN will provide auction companies with a PCI-compliant solution that ensures secure, one-click processing for on-site and online purchases at the lowest rates in the industry.

APN was created with the assistance of auctioneers and places the business needs of auction companies at the forefront of its solution. With remote deposit capture, single and recurring ACH transactions, card payments and ID validation services on a single platform, APN can meet the needs of auction companies of all sizes. Additionally, APN is compatible with most merchant processors, making it easier than ever for auctioneers from across the globe to take advantage of this powerful payment processing solution.

“APN will transform the way I reconcile and invoice auctions moving forward,” said auctioneer Darron Meares of Meares Auction Group. “With one-click processing, closing auctions will be easier than ever, and because the solution is PCI compliant, my bidders can feel even more secure with their online transactions.”

All of APN’s products and services meet the payment card industry’s stringent security requirements. APN was built on a secure network which protects cardholder data and encrypts this data when being transmitted across the network. The Company maintains a vulnerability management program, implements strong access control measures, regularly monitors and tests networks and maintains an information security policy to ensure a secure environment for all cardholder data.

“We are delighted to provide APN as a payment processing solution for our auction company clients,” said Bruce Hoberman, CEO of Proxibid. “Proxibid consistently offers our clients the best products and services in the industry, and we believe that adding APN will greatly enhance productivity and decrease costs for our auction company clients, while providing the most secure transactions possible for our bidders. It’s truly a win-win for everyone.”

“APN was designed with the auctioneer in mind,” said Joe Petsick, Executive Vice President of Operations for Auction Payment Network. “Understanding how auction companies process transactions was paramount for our development team, and we’ve been able to pinpoint the areas we believe auction companies find most useful when reconciling and invoicing their events, such as ensuring a secure transfer of funds directly from the bidder’s account to that of the auction company.”

Auction Payment Network is currently boarding clients to take advantage of its suite of payment processing solutions. Product downloads will be available in mid-August.

About Auction Payment Network
Founded in 2010, Auction Payment Network (APN) is the first online payment processing solution designed specifically for auction companies. Created with auctioneers in mind, APN’s sophisticated and user-friendly solution is designed to make payment processing easier and more efficient than ever before.

Never again will an auctioneer have to spend countless hours following an event inputting credit card numbers because our PCI-compliant solution offers secure, one-click processing for on-site and online purchases. Additionally, APN is compatible with most merchant processors, making it easier than ever for auctioneers from across the globe to take advantage of this powerful payment processing solution.

Auction Payment Network is a wholly owned subsidiary of Proxibid, Inc., the world’s largest provider of live auction webcasting services. Visit Auction Payment Network online at www.auctionpaymentnetwork.com

Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM; TSX: RIM), a world leader in wireless innovation, and eBay, a global leader in mobile commerce and the world’s largest online marketplace, jointly announced that the free eBay Application for BlackBerry® smartphones is immediately available on BlackBerry App World™ in six more countries: Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom.* The application is also now officially available to North American BlackBerry smartphone users after a successful beta preview period.

”We are thrilled to be extending eBay’s mobile presence to millions of BlackBerry smartphone users around the globe,” said Steve Yankovich, vice president of platform business solutions and mobile at eBay Inc. ”When developing any mobile application, we take into account the unique features and advantages of the device to better meet our customers’ needs. With BlackBerry’s Push Service and multi-tasking technology, eBay buyers and sellers are able to stay up-to-date on great deals and sales.”

With the eBay Application for BlackBerry smartphones, users can search, bid, buy and check their eBay buying and selling activity virtually anywhere. The application leverages the BlackBerry® Push Service to allow users to be wirelessly notified of the status of eBay listings in real-time. With alerts, eBay buyers can be notified when they have won an item or have been outbid, or if a listing on their Watch List is ending soon. Further, eBay sellers can be notified when a sale ends and will be provided with buyer information and the sale price. All notifications are directed to the user’s BlackBerry® Email inbox and, because the BlackBerry OS supports multi-tasking, users can simply click the email notification to automatically launch or switch to the eBay application.

“The idea of making eBay listings more conveniently accessible and manageable on BlackBerry smartphones is a ’natural’, and the seamless mobile experience enabled by the unique push-based BlackBerry platform provides a perfect complement to the purchase process,” said Alan Brenner, senior vice president, BlackBerry Platform at Research In Motion.

The official eBay Application for BlackBerry smartphones includes features such as:
· Add to Calendar – Add the end time for listings to the BlackBerry Calendar and set reminders
· Daily Deals – View limited time bargains on popular items, where items are often over 50% off the original price and include free shipping**
· My eBay – Access personal eBay activity including Watched items, Bids, Sales, Saved Searches and Favorite Sellers
· Member Messages – Receive and reply to messages and emails sent through My eBay
· Payments – PayPal account users can purchase items within the application***
· Re-List Items – Re-list items for sale when current listing ends with no sale
· Sort Search Results by Distance – Sort search results by distance from location (up to 1,200 miles)

As a leading force in global mobile commerce, eBay Inc. is expected to generate $1.5 billion in gross merchandise volume (GMV) in 2010 through its mobile platforms. With the international availability of the eBay Application for BlackBerry smartphones, more mobile shoppers will have access to the 200+ million listings across eBay’s global marketplace. Today, over half of eBay’s mobile GMV comes from outside the United States.

For more information on the eBay Application for BlackBerry smartphones, please visit www.blackberry.com/ebay.

To view a demo of the eBay application for BlackBerry, please visit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhDB2XVLKd0

Availability
The eBay Application for BlackBerry smartphones is free and is now available on BlackBerry App World in North America, Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom (www.blackberry.com/appworld).

*The eBay application supports BlackBerry smartphones running BlackBerry OS version 4.5 or higher and requires a BlackBerry service plan that includes Internet access. The application also requires access to a wireless network.

**Daily Deals are currently only available on Australia, Canada, Germany, United Kingdom and United States versions of the eBay Application for BlackBerry smartphones.

***Purchasing items in the eBay Application for BlackBerry smartphones with PayPal is only available in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States.

About eBay Inc.
Founded in 1995 in San Jose, Calif., eBay Inc. (NASDAQ:EBAY) connects millions of buyers and sellers globally on a daily basis through eBay, the world’s largest online marketplace, and PayPal, which enables individuals and businesses to securely, easily and quickly send and receive online payments. We also reach millions through specialized marketplaces such as StubHub, the world’s largest ticket marketplace, and eBay Classifieds sites, which together have a presence in more than 1,000 cities around the world. For more information about the company and our global portfolio of online brands, visit www.ebayinc.com.

For more information on eBay mobile, visit www.ebay.com/mobile.

Ecommerce Techwave offers a secure way to sell online by means of the free shopping cart software fully integrated with eBay. The free shopping cart software is readily accessible after an easy download with customized Ecommerce solution revolving around e-businesses at Ecommerce Techwave. As claimed by the owner of the website there are ecommerce solutions molded according to individual needs and fully scalable from small to big enterprise solutions with the free shopping cart software getting integrated with eBay that has a global customer base of 233 million with 37 markets across the globe including the U.S. All this and more profitable features and modules to integrate with at Ecommerce Techwave.

Mr. Andy Anand, CEO, Ecommerce Techwave, throws light on the objective behind eBay integration. “EBay was founded by Pierre Omidyar in 1995 to fulfill the objective of easy selling at a central focal point with a global arena to deal with. Pierre knew that people needed a central location to buy and sell all kinds of items on a level playing field and to meet other users with similar interests. He started eBay to fulfill this need. The eBay integration module at Ecommerce Techwave gives you the feasibility to integrate eBay orders into your free shopping cart software system regarded as the world’s largest online marketplace, with around 181 million customers. 43% of all internet users in the UK visit the site every month, with an average user spending almost two hours on eBay every single month. We at Ecommerce Techwave offer designs compatible to an eBay store designs where our designers will customize your eBay page so that it matches the branding on your ecommerce website to make the whole company look professional.”
Selling items on both the website and ebay and having orders at one convenient place is possible with the eBay integration taking place at Ecommerce Techwave with order processed by Paypal with access to customer’s eBay account through PayPal’s IPN. Orders include the customer info/address, item number, description, price, shipping, tax, transaction id and more. The orders processed are added to the database through an automated process.
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eBay Inc. announced the recipients of the 2010 Star Developer Awards, recognizing third-party developers who have driven innovative solutions that help streamline the selling process on eBay.

The Star Developer Awards are presented annually to recognize the talent and solutions of members of the eBay Developers Program. The eBay Developers Program, established in 2000, is a community of more than 112,000 developers who utilize the program’s standards-based, easy-to-use development platform. These third-party developers have access to the eBay marketplace, enabling them to seamlessly integrate their ideas and e-commerce tools.

Many of the winners take advantage of Open eBay, the company’s platform that allows developers to integrate applications directly in the eBay.com interface where U.S. sellers can subscribe to and use them.

“eBay’s developer community continues to create innovative applications on the eBay platform that help improve the experience for buyers and margins for sellers, while driving profitability for themselves,” said Sri Shivananda, senior director of eBay’s developer program. “The eBay Star Developer Award winners have built powerful applications that bring new ways of doing business to the eBay marketplace.”

2010 award winners include:

eCommSource™ by Cloud Conversion™, a complete customer relationship management (CRM) solution that enables eBay sellers around the world to manage all customer service operations from a single salesforce.com Service Cloud account. Available on the salesforce.com AppExchange
Early Adopter: Quantity Manager, an automatic listing management tool for eBay sellers, and Price Spectre, a dynamic pricing agent that monitors competitors’ prices and adjusts a subscriber’s listing price accordingly, by NullApps
Most Innovative: Outright, an application that automates eBay sales and expense tracking for more efficient tax preparation, by Outright
Rapid Evolution: Vendio Reviser, a bulk revision solution for updating large numbers of live listings, by Vendio
Service to the Developer Community: David Kronenwetter (exdwh) of Experimenter’s Discount Warehouse
2010 runners-up include:

DSR Rockstar: PhiConnect Return Service, to accept and manage return requests and inquiries online, by PhiConnect.com
Early Adopter: ChannelAdvisor Premium Marketplaces, a solution that eases selling on eBay by automating tedious, day-to-day tasks from inventory management to order fulfillment, by ChannelAdvisor
Most Innovative: GarageSale iPhone application by iwascoding
Rapid Evolution: ShipSaver Insurance, an app that allows eBay sellers to quickly and easily add shipping insurance to their sold items, by InkFrog
Service to the Developer Community: Alan Capesius of AlsSoftware
The annual eBay Developers Conference 2010 takes place June 8 to 10 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose. To view eBay’s App Center, visit http://applications.ebay.com/

Now that No Doubt is busy recording their new album, the band has decided to put some costumes and vintage memorabilia to good use by auctioning the items for charity.

The auction will include costumes from No Doubt’s 2009 U.S. tour, instruments they have played on stage and in videos, out of print vinyl, drummer Adrian Young’s old “tuxedo” and other one-of-a-kind items from the No Doubt archives. Says No Doubt front-woman, Gwen Stefani, “The tour last summer was so amazing, it was exactly what we needed to inspire the new record. Now that we’re in the studio we wanted do something special for the fans who did so much for us. It’ll be really fun to share the costumes – they’re wicked. A lot of the stuff was really hard to part with, but the money we’ll be able to raise, together with the fans, will be worth it. These charities need us, badly. It means a lot to us as a band to be able to support all the hard work they do.”

Adds guitar maestro Tom Dumont, “This auction is a really big deal to me personally, because I’m letting go of two really prized, iconic guitars in the hopes of raising as much money as possible for charity. In my history with No Doubt, the guitars I played in our music videos are the rarest and most valuable things I own. Please contact your richest friend’s Dad and tell him please go BIG on these auction items!”

The auction will be live from June 1-11 and 100% of proceeds will be shared between the following four charities.

Animal Acres – a paradise for farmed animals and the people who love them

charity: water – a non-profit organization bringing clean, safe drinking water to people in developing nations.

The ALS Association – encourages scientific research to find a cure for ALS (also known as “Lou Gehrig’s disease”)

Children’s Hospital of Orange County – a regional pediatric health care hospital which provides preventive medical care, education, and state-of-the-art pediatric biomedical research.

To access the auction and take a look at the items up for bid, check out ebay.com/nodoubt

A national memorial created to honor the fallen firefighters of September 11, 2001, will be on auction on eBay until 5 a.m. PDT on May 22. Interested purchasers must be added to a pre-approved bidders list prior to making a bid. The 40-foot bronze sculpture, “To Lift a Nation,” recreates the historic moment when three firefighters raised the American flag at Ground Zero, memorialized in the now world-famous photograph by Thomas E. Franklin.

The sculpture, which was purchased with proceeds from a Ponzi scheme devised by Coadum Advisors, Inc., has been put up for auction on eBay by Huddleston Law Firm under the title “9/11 Firefighter Memorial Bronze Sculpture” to generate proceeds to the receivership in an attempt to recover lost funds for the defrauded investors, many of whom lost their life savings as a result of the scam.

The auction can be accessed using the following link: http://tinyurl.com/2b9gccz. The auction began May 12, 2010 and will end on May 22 at 5 a.m. PDT.

eBay Inc. and Young Bae Ku, the founder of Gmarket, Korea’s leading e-commerce company acquired by eBay in 2009, today announced a joint venture agreement to expand Gmarket’s existing online marketplaces in Japan and Singapore. The agreement will strengthen eBay’s presence in Japan and Singapore — where the e-commerce markets are expected to grow by 30% and 13% respectively between 2009 and 2012–and provide a foundation for longer term expansion of Gmarket into other Asian markets.

“eBay’s partnership with Young Bae Ku combines his expertise in Asia and Gmarket’s proven Korean online marketplace model to enhance our long-term position and growth in the region,” said Lorrie Norrington, president of eBay Marketplaces. “This joint venture is a sign of our continued commitment to help grow and lead ecommerce across Asia by offering more opportunities for sellers and extraordinary buying experiences for consumers.”

Upon the launch of the new joint venture, Mr. Ku will be chief executive officer for the new entity and will drive the vision for Gmarket’s future growth and expansion in the Asian market. As the founder of Gmarket, Mr. Ku led and oversaw the rapid growth of the online marketplace as it became Korea’s leading e-commerce company and expanded into other Asian markets. The formation of a joint venture will allow Mr. Ku and the new entity to take advantage of Gmarket’s existing presence in Japan and Singapore and its highly scalable platform for rapid product innovation.

“We are excited to join with eBay, one of the world’s most recognized e-commerce brands, in combination with our management team’s proven track record of establishing successful online marketplaces,” said Mr. Ku. “The joint venture will allow us to provide an enhanced e-commerce experience tailored for the Japanese and Singaporean markets, and to capitalize on our companies’ experience in the Asian e-commerce industry.”

eBay will have a 49% stake in the joint venture, and an entity owned by Mr. Ku will have a 51% stake. eBay will contribute assets from Gmarket’s existing Japanese and Singaporean businesses to the joint venture, and eBay and Mr. Ku will make financial contributions of approximately US$10 million each to the joint venture. eBay will also license Gmarket’s technology and brand on behalf of the joint venture, while Mr. Ku will provide local management expertise.

In June 2009, eBay Inc. acquired Gmarket for a total cash purchase price of approximately $1.2 billion. Gmarket is Korea’s leading online marketplace, and is a key component of eBay’s Marketplaces segment. The acquisition strengthened eBay’s e-commerce business in Korea and provided a platform for the company’s expansion throughout Asia. In the first quarter of 2010, eBay’s combined Korean businesses exceeded expectations and the ongoing integration of eBay’s existing Korean business, Auction Co. (formerly Internet Auction Co.), and Gmarket is proceeding well. The new joint venture will not impact eBay’s businesses in Korea.

Second Chance Wildlife Center today announced that it is entering the eBay Fundraising Tournament for the Environment in hopes of raising badly needed funds. Like many businesses and non-profits, the current economic environment has brought challenging times to Second Chance, which depends on grants and donations from the public to fund its operations.

“We need the funds and are appealing to the public we serve to vote for us,” said Frank Howard, Member of the Board of Directors at Second Chance Wildlife Center. “Anyone anywhere who supports wildlife and wildlife rehab can vote for us, not just the people who live here in the DC/Baltimore Region.” Funds are needed for refurbishing dilapidated outdoor cages, rent, food and medicine for the animals, and other necessities.

eBay generously seeded the contest with $50,000 and that amount can grow during the contest, which runs from April 22 to June 22. While not required, “voters” can also donate money directly to their favorite non-profit in addition to voting. Humanity Calls is running the Tournament.

Voting is free and is accomplished by going to this webpage: www.humanitycalls.org/HumanityCalls/OrganizationProfileView.action?id=174

Or go to http://www.humanitycalls.org and click on “Browse All 110 Incredible Nonprofits” and select Second Chance Wildlife Center.

About Second Chance Wildlife Center

Founded in 1995 by Ms. Christine Montuori, the current Executive Director, Second Chance Wildlife Center is a licensed wildlife rehabilitator in Gaithersburg, MD. We treat distressed (injured, sick, orphaned) wildlife brought to us from concerned citizens, the Humane Society, and animal-control departments of local city and county governments, with the goal of returning the animals to the wild. We are the largest independent wildlife rehabilitator in the Washington, DC/Baltimore, MD Region.

Second Chance Wildlife Center Contact:

Frank Howard
301-704-2015
Email: fhoward@scwc.org
Web: http://www.scwc.org
Facebook Fan Page: http://www.facebook.com/scwc.org

VW parts expert Jack Finn is putting Jack Kevorkian’s infamous “death bus” on the auction block. Kevorkian allegedly used the bus for assisting terminal patients in committing suicide. Finn, who sold VW parts to Kevorkian over several years, purchased the notorious Volkswagen van in 1997 prior to Kevorkian’s incarceration. Finn has been storing the 1968 Volkswagen Bus/Vanagon unused in a warehouse in what he describes as basically the same condition as when it was used by Kevorkian.

Whoever buys the bus will be investing in a piece of authenticated history including all its faults according to Finn.

The aging VW comes complete with the transfer of ownership title signed by Kevorkian. Like Kevorkian, his “death bus” has a police record having been impounded repeatedly by police as part of their suicide investigations.

“The bus is the real deal, not a romanticized copy such as what is used in the HBO movie, ‘You Don’t Know Jack’,” says Finn. “The vehicle drove in under its own power but to use the bus on the road today would require bringing it up to current standards. Although the vehicle may actually move and stop under its own power, it’s being sold as a collector’s item, not a drivable bus.”

Finn, a former automotive engineer who turned his frustration with his first Volkswagen Beetle into a career supplying hard-to-find parts via mail order for do-it-yourself VW owners, has decided it is time to clear out the warehouse and sell the infamous bus. The bus was listed Thursday, April 22 on eBay.com. To find the listing, Google “kevorkian death bus” or “jack death bus”.

The vehicle has been offered to The Henry Ford and Smithsonian Museums as well as being posted on eBay.

According to Wikipedia, Kevorkian, who became known in the 1990s as “Doctor Death,” advocated for terminal patients’ right to die via physician-assisted suicide. Kevorkian claimed to have assisted in the deaths of at least 130 people. Between 1999 and 2007, Kevorkian served eight years of a 10-25 year prison sentence for second-degree murder.

Finn says that Kevorkian has not asked to visit the bus since his early release for good behavior.

Paul Barrett from County Durham became the first trader in the UK to be prosecuted for online auction fixing. Barrett is facing a fine of up to £50,000 after using two eBay accounts to bid against himself. Barrett admitted 10 breaches of recent fair trading regulations, with each offence carrying a maximum fine of £5,000.

Barrett was investigated after a complaint that he had advertised and sold a minibus on Ebay with false low mileage.

Vanessa Canzini, head of corporate communications for eBay in Europe, said: “We are extremely pleased to learn of the conviction of Paul Barrett. Shill bidding is illegal and it is important for people to understand that there is not, nor has there ever been, room for illegal activity on our site.

“We invest over £6m each year in state-of-the-art technology to detect shill bidding and other illegal activities. This acts as a strong deterrent to the small minority who attempt to use our site inappropriately but, more than this, it helps us to work with law enforcement agencies to secure successful prosecutions if anyone decides to try their luck.”

The case was adjourned for sentencing at Bradford crown court on 21 May.

BizAuctions, Inc., a prime provider of commercial eBay and Amazon liquidation services for excess inventories, overstocks and returns, and La Jolla Liquidation & Auction Co. have begun receiving the first tractor-trailer loads of merchandise from the Tropicana Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Delmar Janovec, CEO comments, “Since the announcement of our Joint-Venture agreement on April 8, 2010, BizAuctions and La Jolla Liquidation & Auction Co., have received four (4) semi-truck loads of furniture, fixtures, and equipment which is just the start of a very large liquidation project that will take from nine (9) to twelve (12) months to complete. This begins the liquidation of furniture, fixtures, and equipment from the Tropicana Hotel & Casino, a historic Las Vegas landmark.

“Under the Joint-Venture, BizAuctions and La Jolla Liquidation & Auction Co. have begun the task of inventorying the merchandise and selecting the most appropriate goods and equipment to be sold on our eBay or Amazon platforms. The remaining goods-equipment will be sold through bi-weekly or monthly live-auctions that will be held at BizAuctions warehouse in Otay Mesa or possibly at other facilities within the greater San Diego area or County.

More information is available at www.BizAuctions.com

Stamps.com(R), the leading provider of postage online and shipping software solutions to approximately 400,000 customers, today announced that it will continue to enable unlimited batch shipping from eBay Stores without any service fees to new customers who sign up before October 1, 2010. Batch shipping with Stamps.com allows eBay sellers to print up to 1,000 labels at a time, and via all classes of USPS mail — including First Class Mail International(R).

“Stamps.com enables thousands of eBay sellers to ship their orders quickly, reliably and affordably,” said Stamps.com president and CEO Ken McBride. “The response to our original eBay promotion was very positive, and we are pleased to provide even more eBay sellers the chance to benefit from our world-class batch shipping solution.”

Stamps.com allows eBay Store users to retrieve order data from multiple sources — including eBay, XML files and ODBC data sources — and automatically post order status details such as tracking numbers and cost data back to their eBay Store. Integration with the Stamps.com USB scale further decreases the need for manual data entry by automatically importing package weight and calculating the correct postage. Users also receive discounts on Priority(R) and Express Mail(R), cost codes to keep track of expenses, and Hidden Postage(TM) which prints shipping labels without displaying the postage cost.

Stamps.com’s goal in offering a free eBay batch shipping solution is to introduce eBay users to Stamps.com’s product and encourage them to explore all of the additional features which are available for a small additional monthly fee. For instance, Stamps.com offers integrations with additional eCommerce platforms such as Yahoo!(R) Merchant, and Google Checkout. These additional integrations allow webstore managers to process, manage, and ship orders from virtually any e-commerce source. Other features available to standard customers include the ability to print postage directly on envelopes or on NetStamps(R) for convenient mailing solutions.

For more information on Stamps.com’s free service for eBay sellers, visit http://www.stamps.com/ebayfree5/

Zuujit, LLC announced new upgrades to its industry-leading eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) mobile selling application for the Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone, ZuujitTM for Online Selling. This latest version Zuujit for Online Selling is free, and further enhances the speed of creating a listing, while improving overall ease of use, by providing a single application for selling items on eBay using the auction, fixed price, or classified formats. And, unlike eBay Selling, it supports listing and auctions in some categories of eBay Motors.

“As the original iPhone selling application for eBay and, as our first step toward creating a ‘Social Marketplace,’ our goal has been to make online selling fast and easy,” said Zuujit CEO Tyler Gildred. “Using an Apple iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad anyone can start their own online business or just make extra money cleaning out the garage.”

Zuujit Simplifies Online Selling

According to independent testing, Zuujit for Online Selling is the fastest mobile application available for creating a complete eBay listing. It allows users to post through eBay, including some segments of eBay Motors currently unavailable to eBay Selling users, with just one application.

First-time users can get items up on eBay in minutes – without using a computer – by simply utilizing an eBay seller account and attaching up to five photos. The tool automatically creates a custom listing by recommending a price, selecting a category, writing a description, and even helping ship an item upon sale by using the location of the device (GPS) or the auction address information to help determine shipping costs. And, because it is a fully certified eBay Compatible Application, Zuujit for Online Selling provides full eBay security so mobile users can make money on the Internet without worry.

“With this simple tool, people can now manage auctions quickly, discretely and easily in a secure environment,” added Gildred. “Anyone who has used eBay in the past will quickly see how this app removes some significant barriers to success.”

The Zuujit for Online Selling mobile application is free and can be downloaded at: http://tiny.cc/3dx0k.

About Zuujit

CEO Tyler Gildred founded Zuujit in 2004 when saw the need to make online selling easier via a “Social Marketplace.” Zuujit has evolved from a “simple,” handheld selling tool, to a rich mobile environment that is revolutionizing the way people sell on the Internet. For more information, please go to: www.zuujit.com, or download a free version of the product at: http://tiny.cc/3dx0k.

Tiffany & Co. has today criticized the decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit that allows eBay to continue to sell counterfeit TIFFANY products on its website. While the decision leaves room to establish Tiffany’s claims for false advertising, it leaves in place a prior ruling which allows eBay to profit from counterfeit sales. This decision will not help innocent consumers who are being victimized by illegal e-commerce practices.

“Obviously Tiffany is very disappointed by today’s decision. As an e-commerce leader, eBay has a responsibility to protect consumers and promote trust in its marketplace,” said Michael J. Kowalski, chairman and chief executive officer of Tiffany & Co. “eBay knew that counterfeit merchandise was being sold on its site – and eBay took no effective steps to stop it. eBay deliberately misled consumers for profit, and unfortunately, the court has justified its actions. The consumer is the real loser today.”

Tiffany’s attorneys are performing a full review of the decision and will consider an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

TIFFANY & CO. operates jewelry and specialty retail stores and manufactures products through its subsidiary corporations. Its principal subsidiary is Tiffany and Company. The Company operates TIFFANY & CO. retail stores and boutiques in the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Europe and engages in direct selling through Internet, catalog and business gift operations. For additional information, please visit tiffany.com or call the shareholder information line at 800-TIF-0110.