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eBay is investigating after the business partner of TNS boss Mike Harris is believed to have made a £200,000 bid for sponsorship of the club.
The name of the Welsh Premier League side is up for sale on the auction site and last night the top bid of £250,000 was made by a bidder [...]

UK Auction Info
Car stereos snatched from parked cars in Cardiff were sold across the UK to unsuspecting eBay customers. Sales were sometimes completed within 48 hours of the local losers finding their vehicles broken into. And in one case, an offer of sale was posted before the car CD player had even been taken.

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Auction postings on eBay could allow attackers to steal customer information, according to a new release from the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team.
The malicious coder could use scripts in product descriptions to modify pages on eBay or redirect users to another page.
These may appear to be legitimate eBay pages that request personal information. Using these [...]

US Auction Info
A man who pleaded guilty to selling stolen goods on eBay was sentenced to more than 14 1/2 years in federal prison, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said Wednesday.
Cory I. Paris, 34, also was ordered to pay $708,699 in restitution during sentencing Tuesday and must forfeit his downtown Dallas loft.

eBay drop-off store franchise company QuikDrop International has signed an agreement with Universal Express to offer its proprietary hardware and software eBay kiosk technology to thousands of Postal Nation locations throughout the United States.
Universal Express CEO Richard Altomare said, “By offering to the public through our nation wide postal store affiliates the opportunity to be [...]

Approximately $4,000 in photography equipment stolen from a Troy University lab has been recovered, and a student has been found to be responsible for the theft.
According to Bob Joslin, director of the photography department, a Troy University student has confessed to stealing the equipment from an unlocked lab in Malone Hall on April 12.
Joslin said [...]

US Auction Info
A New York man has been sentenced to five months in federal prison and five months of electronic monitoring for sending threatening e-mails to two executives of the online auction site eBay.

UK Auction Info
Welsh Premier League team TNS FC, which has qualified for next year’s UEFA Champions League, is using the internet site to find a new backer.
The club, based in Llansantffraid in mid-Wales, grabbed the headlines last year after it was drawn to play against Liverpool FC in the early rounds of the European championship.
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Local media report that online auction site eBay Eachnet had been allowing sales of pornographic video disks through its website.
ebay Eachnet says that it has already removed the concerned goods from its servers.

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Fraud with World Cup tickets is on the rise according to German media. Bild am Sonntag reported on one incident where at least 15 people were conned out of several thousand euros after obtaining tickets on the internet auction portal ebay.
‘We are investigating cases against several individuals,’ state prosecutor Burkhard Vonnahme said about the [...]

Press Release
Marketworks – the Atlanta-based provider of sales automation software and marketing services for multi-channel sales announced the release of functionality in support of eBay’s new Express marketplace. Marketworks customers that meet eBay Express requirements will be able to automatically list items to the new marketplace.
“We’re very excited about this new functionality as it provides [...]

McAllen Police say they busted two men pulling mirrors off SUVs in the La Plaza Mall parking lot.
Men were offering to buy stolen mirrors, and them selling them online. Officers got the suspect’s EBay username and matched the stolen mirrors to the ones in the auction.
McAllen Police Sgt. Joel Morales said, “It’s not as easy [...]