As outlined in our previous post directly below, our item numbers will begin expanding in the next few days. We are going to slowly introduce these larger numbers throughout June, so you may not …

Yahoo and eBay announced last week they’ll cooperate on their U.S. search, advertising, and online payment efforts. But that teamwork won’t extend to their affiliates in China, according to officials at the Asian operations.
Yahoo’s interests are tied with Alibaba.com, China’s leading online business-to-business platform, which owns auction site Taobao.com. Last August, Yahoo paid $1 billion [...]

The transcript and audio archive from June’s Town Hall event at eBay Live! are now available. Visit our Town Hall Archives to read or lis…

The transcript and audio archive from June’s Town Hall event at eBay Live! are now available. Visit our Town Hall Archives to read or lis…

GE Consumer Finance, a unit of General Electric Co, said Tuesday it will team up with eBay Inc and its PayPal Inc. unit to launch the new PayPal Plus credit card. The card will feature a rewards program for PayPal users.
The new card is an expansion of the relationship originally created in June 2004 for [...]

Prompted by reports in the New York Post, speculation surrounding a major merger in the Internet world has intensified.
The paper cited multiple sources close to the matter last week, when it reported that Microsoft was considering buying the online auction site eBay, suggesting that while the recent Yahoo! eBay deal had not cooled the software [...]

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Chipsaway, the car dent repairer, has banned one of its franchisees from selling his concession on eBay, and rewritten its rulebook so it can never happen again.
The company acted after The Daily Telegraph revealed franchisee John Hopkins was trying to sell his membership on the internet auction site.
The company, which offers a door-to-door [...]

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Only months after shutting down five European auction sites, Yahoo said it will develop co-branded auction sites in Scandinavia with QXL Ricardo.
The deal with QXL Ricardo to establish the sites in Norway, Sweden and Denmark follows Yahoo’s decision in May shut down its auction sites in the UK and Ireland, Germany, France, Spain [...]

This week we’re adding “Sell one like this” links on item pages. These links are already included on completed item pages, and give sellers a quick way to jump into the listing process.

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Alibaba’s Jack Ma suddenly making friends, after years of alternately haranguing and declaring victory over archrival eBay, would be…unlikely. Imagine George W. Bush and Al Gore sharing a pistachio ice cream cone.
The partnership announced last week between Yahoo, Inc. and eBay, Inc.

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A TAXI driver down on his luck took part in an eBay scam which diddled bidders out of almost £2,000.
Bankrupt Steven Elliot and an accomplice he refuses to name “sold” phantom items including international rugby match tickets and game consoles for hundreds of pounds a time on the internet auction site, [...]

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A custom ukulele autographed by Omaha billionaire Warren Buffett sold for $11,211 Friday on the online auction site eBay.
He will donate all the proceeds from the auction to Children’s Hospital in Omaha.

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A judge hit out yesterday after learning an illegal immigrant jailed over the world’s biggest eBay fraud had been freed and deported — after just seven months of a 2½-year sentence.
Judge Duncan Matheson QC, who jailed Romanian Adriana Cretanu only last October, said: “I would like to say I don’t believe it [...]

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The UK tax dept is clamping down on tax dodging e-traders by hunting them down using a ‘web robot’.
The £250,000 robot, which was launched in March, is an advanced search engine that targets high-volume traders, such as those that sell goods on eBay, that fail to register for VAT.
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) [...]