By state law everyone who sells another individual’s belongings online needs an auctioneer’s license. The law does not include people who sell their own things on online sites such as eBay.
The licensing process can take anywhere from six to eight months.
The Department of State oversees the online auction rules and auctioneer’s licenses. A spokesperson for [...]

Best of eBay is a community driven website dedicated to show the most eccentric listings on eBay. With Best of eBay you can nominate the most eccentric listings you find and eBay to be voted by fellow community members. In order to nominate and vote for a Best Of eBay listing you must be a [...]

The state plans to put its two mothballed passenger ferries on the online auction site eBay at the end of the month, hoping to fetch nearly $9 million for the two boats, the Chinook and the Snohomish.
The vessels, now sitting at the Washington State Ferry Eagle Harbor maintenance yard on Bainbridge Island, haven’t operated since [...]

At approximately 12:30 p.m. (PST) today, local law enforcement authorities of San Jose, California determined that a suspicious package delivered to eBay’s mailroom on the Hamilton Avenue campus was harmless.
Beginning at approximately 8:55 a.m. today, more than 200 employees had been evacuated from their building. The affected areas of campus have since been reopened. eBay, [...]

A lawyer for Tiffany & Co. accused eBay Inc. on Tuesday of allowing the sale of tens of thousands of pieces of counterfeit Tiffany jewelry on its Web site; an eBay lawyer responded that Tiffany wasn’t doing its share to protect customers.
The arguments in U.S. District Court in Manhattan came at the start of a [...]

Years before mega star John Travolta started piloting his own jumbo jet, he cruised around in ‘Travolta Fever,’ a custom celebrity show car created just for him as his career took off. Now this piece of Americana is up for auction on eBay.
The most famous Pontiac Firebird ever to hit the streets was designed by [...]

A jury today convicted a former first-grade teacher of stealing a student’s coat and trying to sell it on eBay.
Elizabeth Lucinda Logan, 42, will be sentenced Nov. 20 on charges of attempted first-degree theft, computer crime and third-degree theft. Computer crime is a Class C felony punishable by probation and up to 30 days [...]