With the June 29, 2007, launch of the Apple iPhone, scammers and thieves are coming out of the woodwork. ScamBusters.org, a public service website that has helped over 9 million people protect themselves from Internet scams since 1994, offers predictions about the Top 7 online and offline iPhone scams, as well as tips to avoid [...]
Mighty Bids was created by Michaud and Ramaglia out of concern with eBay’s high fees, which users are charged whether an item sells or not.
Michaud has stated that listing his own auction site on eBay was primarily a marketing decision. “It’s getting a lot of attention and puts them to the test.” Michaud says that [...]
eBay is helping Romanian law enforcement to detect and stop fraud targeting losing auction bidders. The auction giant said a large portion of online fraud was coming from the Eastern European nation.
Since 2005, criminals in Romania are taking advantage of a gap in the knowledge of local police to prey on eBay users that are [...]
Two men have pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to selling nearly $6 million worth of counterfeit software on eBay.
Robert Koster of Jonesboro, Ark., and Yutaka Yamamoto of Pico Rivera, Calif., both pleaded guilty to selling counterfeit Rockwell Automation computer software over the Internet. Each defendant faces up to five years in prison, a fine [...]
EBay recently pulled ads from the world’s most popular search engine in what the auction company billed as an experiment to determine the most effective means of getting customers to visit the shopping site. The move, however, had smacked of blatant retaliation as it coincided with a June 14 party that Google had been planning [...]
A Rensselaer Wal-Mart Manager faces 10 felony counts after being accused of defrauding at least eight Internet users out of thousands of dollars. The accused allegedly did this by offering NASCAR collectibles, via online sale, that were not in his possession.
Benjamin LaGuire, 29, of Lafayette attended his first court date June 15 after charges of [...]
Meg Whitman, chief executive of the Internet auction leader, said eBay’s partnership with Tom Online is within a few months of starting, somewhat later than first planned. It is eBay’s second attempt to crack the Chinese market, following the collapse of the company’s EachNet venture, and the first with a local partner.
In order to win [...]
AuctionAds, a division of MediaWhiz Holdings Inc., today announced it received the eBay Star Developer Award for “Most Innovative Application-Buyer†at the sixth annual eBay Developers Conference. AuctionAds (www.auctionads.com) enables users to monetize their website by displaying live eBay auctions next to their related copy.
“We are honored to accept this prestigious award, which recognizes that [...]
An online event called ‘Summer Solstice to Blue Moon’ (or ‘SS2BM’) is aimed at increasing coverage of seller’s independent websites, as well promoting alternative auction sites and marketplaces to Ebay. The event is scheduled to run from 21st to 30th June 2007, and is being coordinated at Pheebay.com, a website dedicated to all aspects of [...]
The bulk carrier Pasha Bulker has been listed for sale on eBay, attracting bids up to $16 million despite being grounded off a Newcastle beach for more than a week.
EBay spokesman Daniel Feiler said the listing was “clearly” not legitimate and would be removed from the site.
Seller jonno504 says the coal carrier is “in excellent [...]
Under pressure from analysts and investors to jump-start growth in its core auctions business, eBay is making a series of upgrades intended to make the site more friendly to buyers. In so doing, it may have to endure a torrent of criticism from more than 700,000 sellers who rely on eBay for their livelihoods and [...]
Press Release
Are you tired of having your eBay auctions result in low or even no sales? Are you tired of listing your items over and over again, paying fees each time, with no profits coming in? Have you spent your valuable time and money reading and studying ‘how to make money from eBay’ books only [...]
Google had scheduled an event in Boston designed to promote its Checkout service, which competes with eBay’s PayPal service. The event was slated for Thursday night and was intended to draw attendees from a nearby convention sponsored by eBay for its largest sellers.
San Jose, Calif.-based eBay, which also hosted its annual shareholder meeting Thursday morning, [...]
eBay has opened a beta programme for a desktop application that makes shopping on the auction website easier, with new types of alerts and a browsing history feature.
Anyone interested in the beta can sign up for Project San Dimas, which was announced at the eBay Developers Conference in Boston. eBay developers named San Dimas after [...]
EBay Inc. has pulled all of its paid search ads from Google Inc.’s AdWords network in the U.S.
However, eBay has kept its AdWords campaigns outside of the U.S., eBay spokesman Hani Durzy said Wednesday.
Durzy characterized the decision to pull the U.S. Google ads as an instance in a continued experiment eBay does to determine the [...]
