People are making their plans for eBay Live! in Boston. Lots of questions involve hotels and things to see in Boston. The hotel info will be coming soon, but I have found something now that really stands out as a great deal. I was skeptical at first, but then found some reviews which convinced me [...]

Four tickets to Friday’s Australia v England daynighter at the Sydney Cricket Ground were for sale on eBay for a paltry £8.
Given that each ticket was bought for a face value of more than £20, the seller was accepting a 90 per cent reduction.

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A replica of the KITT (Knight Industries Two Thousand) car of Knight Rider television fame is available for bid on eBay.
The starting bid for the car is $19,000. That’s much cheaper than other famous vehicles like the original Ecto 1 from Ghostbusters, or one of Steve McQueen’s personal motorcycles.
The auction ends Wednesday and is only [...]

A piece of Kentucky Derby history is up for bid, starting at $100,000.
Connie Peters, the daughter of Robert E. Lehmann, who owned 1970 Kentucky Derby winner Dust Commander, is offering a copy of the winner’s trophy on the online auction site eBay, The Courier-Journal of Louisville reported on its Web site. The original trophy is [...]

eBay stepped up a ban on listing virtual items, such as characters and weapons from online multi-player games World of Warcraft and EverQuest II. Virtual world Second Life has been exempt from the ban because eBay does not consider it a game, not because eBay founder Pierre Omidyar is an investor, reports Auction Bytes. [...]

Who’s Your Buddy? PayPal

With all the buzz about Google Checkout, PayPal is still the king of payment processing, especially for small online merchants who rely on its full array of tools and services to boost sales.

For Web store owners without expertise in online selling or those who have less sophisticated sites, PayPal can fill [...]

I love free things. Anyone on eBay likely loves things that are free too. Some of you already know about this, but for those that don’t here is a tip to get 250 free business cards.
Who needs them?
Do people ever ask you what you sell on eBay? Do people ever ask for your “card” and [...]

eBay is stopping the auctioning of virtual goods from online worlds such as World of Warcraft and City of Heroes, but it hasn’t yet extended the ban to Second Life, CNET reports. Many publishers of online worlds state that users cannot sell their virtual assets for real-money and doing so is grounds for banishment.
eBay’s decision [...]

eBay on Monday confirmed its decision to ban auctions for the characters, currency, weapons, attire and accounts of online games such as World of Warcraft, City of Heroes and others. The move was first reported on Slashdot.
By proactively delisting auctions for property from virtual worlds and online games, eBay may be effectively forcing players who [...]

Mark Broughton, who offered his hand in marriage in an eBay auction, is still confident of finding a bride online, despite one withdrawn offer.
Mr Broughton, 37, of Corn Bar, Witney, was so keen to find a partner that he auctioned his future for a penny on the Internet auction site.
The 10-day auction began on Thursday, [...]

At Cardiff Crown Court Phillip Shortman, a married father-of-two from Pontypool, admitted theft, deception and interfering with a motor vehicle.
He was jailed for eight months, suspended for two years, and ordered to do 200 hours work in the community.
In 2005 he hired stretch limos and bought designer clothes from a £45k con on the auction [...]

A newspaper report finds many dealers on auction site Ebay artificially driving up bids, forcing consumers to pay more for offered items than they should.
The Sunday Times of London said it undertook an extensive investigation and found so called “shill” bidding is widespread across the popular site.
Among the evidence the newspaper presented to its readers [...]

1 Shill Bidding
Shill bidding is widespread on eBay and means bidding on items you are trying to sell in order to artificially inflate their price and desirability. Sometimes, sellers shill bid using second eBay identities, sometimes they get friends to do it on their behalf. Either way, shill bidding is illegal in Britain, and there [...]