AuctionTNT.com announced today the availability of a new free tool to help eBay sellers cross-sell and upsell other products to their auction visitors.The tool is called ‘Auction Showcase’. It appears as a spinning 3D ring showing other auction items that the eBay seller currently has listed. Unlike other “gallery tools”, what makes this tool unique [...]

PETA, which owns 120 shares of eBay stock, has submitted a shareholder resolution urging the company to stop selling cats and dogs on its affiliated Chinese Web site, Tom Online.
PETA’s resolution points out that eBay’s online policy states, “eBay generally does not allow the listing of live animals or pets on eBay,” and that eBay’s [...]

A report from technology news site Slashdot has revealed that online auction house Ebay intends to remove listings for all virtual items, regardless of type or game title, clamping down on third-party sales of gold and accounts from many popular MMOs.
Speaking to Slashdot, eBay spokesperson Hani Durzy told the site that the decision, rather than [...]

Britney Spears 2002 Ford Explorer and the green umbrella she used to attack paparazzi earlier this year have been put up for sale on online auction site eBay – with a starting price of $25,000.

Jim Koch, brewer of Samuel Adams, announced today that he is teaming up with Denis Leary and The Leary Firefighters Foundation to create a once-in-a-lifetime auction item package of items, just in time for last minute holiday shoppers. Included in the group will be the first bottle of the limited edition 2007 batch of Samuel [...]

Feeling like you’re leaving carbon footprints wherever you go? Point your browser to http://www.ebay.com/poptech and see how you can support a community based project aimed at encouraging the use of renewable fuels. Here, you can simultaneously calculate your carbon footprint and support an effort to switch a local ceramics industry to renewable fuels.
Through a cooperative [...]

Nearly one hundred celebrities powered up and showed their support over two days for the fight against autism by signing a Special Edition Customized BugE Personal EV Transport. The vehicle, built especially by Harvey Coachworks of Knoxville, MD., and is being offered for auction on EBay.com at: www.ebay.com/harveyev.
The auction runs through December 20, and right [...]

Kick off Holiday shopping on eBAY with a gift that keeps on giving, “the SCOTT CONNER Show’s” 2008 syndication/ distribution rights for one full year. That’s right, your sweetie, station, network or affiliate can own 240 one hour formatted late night talk and variety episodes with a Co-Executive Producer’s title. And the winner of this [...]

Consumer research firm Packaged Facts
has unveiled a groundbreaking report, Video Game Systems: Online Industry
Insights powered by eBay Data: Annual Industry Overview 2006, that catalogs
the $330 million in video game systems (including Wii, Playstation and
Xbox) sales that took place on eBay.com in 2006.
Based exclusively on primary eBay data, the report takes an
unprecedented [...]

eBay Inc said on Wednesday it would appeal a U.S. court ruling in a patent dispute with MercExchange LLC. MercExchange, which holds several patents related to Internet-based auctions and markets, said earlier that a U.S. district court in Norfolk, Virginia, found on Tuesday that eBay had intentionally infringed its patents. EBay said in a statement [...]

Brad and Debra Schepp have interviewed the savviest entrepreneurs on eBay – current top sellers who are earning up to $150,000 per month through listings – to illustrate that any self-motivated entrepreneur can join the 1.3 million people worldwide who already earn their livings on eBay. These inspiring stories show that what can begin as [...]

California’s Orange County Register is reporting that the U.S. Secret Service has busted a $5.7 million scam on eBay selling illegally obtained Cisco replacement parts.
Placentia, California resident – Thong Quoc Tran – has been arrested by U.S. Secret Service agents for allegedly filing more than 1,000 phony warranty claims on Cisco routers.
According to an affidavit [...]

President and chief executive, Margaret Whitman of online auction company Ebay Inc. exercised options for 640,000 shares of common stock under a prearranged trading plan, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
In a Form 4 filed with the SEC Friday, Whitman reported she exercised the options Wednesday and Thursday for $22.02 apiece and [...]

A California retailer that sells miniature furniture and home accessories is suing online auction site eBay Inc. for refusing to take down auctions that it claims infringe on its trademark.
Hansson Inc. in Santa Clara, Calif., filed the lawsuit late last month against eBay and an eBay seller in Atlantic City that it claims has been [...]

France’s auction watchdog is taking eBay to court, arguing the Internet auctioneer does not do enough to protect consumers.
The regulatory authority, called the Council of Sales, said Monday that eBay’s French site should be held to the same standards as France’s auction houses, which need a special permit from authorities, partly to ensure consumers are [...]