An employee of the New York State Department of Education allegedly stole hundreds of historic documents and artifacts from the New York State Library and sold some of them on eBay Inc., New York state’s attorney general said.
The items included a signed 1823 letter from Vice President John C. Calhoun, The Davy Crockett Almanack, [...]

HammerTap.com, the leading eBay research provider, releases the latest software version of HammerTap3, which includes three new analysis reports that make eBay research even easier for sellers.
“In the past it has been difficult to understand how to apply eBay research to your listings,” says Brian Clark, HammerTap’s CTO. “Starting with this release, we are simplifying [...]

eBay announced on Monday, that its PayPal online payment service unit will acquire Fraud Services, a privately held Israeli company, for $169 million.
Based in Tel Aviv, Fraud Sciences is a venture-capital-backed startup formed in April 2006, specializing in online risk assessment. Fraud Sciences’ technology is designed to ferret out fraudulent credit card purchases by verifying [...]

Excluding charges related to stock-option expenses and other items, the company earned $611 million, or 45 cents a share. Growth was led by its non-auction businesses, including its retail-like fixed price shopping sites. Cash, cash equivalents and investments leapt to $5.04 billion at the end of 2007 from $3.50 billion at the end of 2006. [...]

EBay shares fell on Thursday after the online auction company issued a disappointing forecast for the year, based in on upcoming changes to its fee structure and a cautious outlook for consumer spending.
The forecast came as part of the company’s report for the fourth quarter late Wednesday, in which earnings jumped 53% on strong sales [...]

eBay Inc, plans to cut the fees it charges sellers on its auction site, according to a presentation of the company’s quarterly results on Wednesday.
Responding to complaints by its key network of auction sellers, eBay will reduce the upfront fees sellers must pay to insert new listings on its auction sites along with reductions in [...]

Dodge and the Victory Junction Gang Camp have partnered to auction the 43rd 2008 Dodge Challenger SRT8(R) on eBay beginning Feb. 12, 2008. The auction timing coincides with Petty Enterprises celebrating 50 years of racing at Daytona International Speedway.
“As a long-time friend of the Pettys, Dodge is delighted to be able to auction the No. [...]

eBay UK is running a half-price listing promotion on January 24, 2008. Only items listed in British Pounds Sterling on eBay.co.uk using the Auction-style format will qualify for the promotion.
“For the entire day of Thursday 24th January 2008 (local UK time), sellers who list one or more items in an eligible category using the Auction-style [...]

eBay CEO Meg Whitman is reportedly thinking about retirement as the online auction company struggles with slowing growth.
The Wall Street Journal reports, that in the past few months, Ms. Whitman, who has led the San Jose, Calif., Internet auctioneer since March 1998, has been delegating more daily responsibilities to her lieutenants and is completing her [...]

An Australian pensioner who was conned out of $11 has helped to track down an alleged online auction scammerr from Northern Australia.
Northern Territory Police believe 22-year-old Brent Mack conned almost $5000 out of buyers on auction website eBay.
Mr Johansson said police were unaware of Mr Mack’s alleged activities before he contacted them.
“People like that need [...]

Live auction sellers have long waited for the breadth and scope of services that auction management companies like bidmachine have been providing to the eBay community for years. That wait is now over as bidmachine unveils its integration with the live auction platform through the eBay API.
“The API integration for the eBay live auctions platform [...]

A 43-YEAR-OLD man who conned eBay customers out of £10,000 has today pleaded guilty at court.
David Cartmell, of Wyther Park Terrace, Armley, Leeds, was convicted of eight offences of obtaining a money transfer by deception at Bolton Crown Court.
In January 2006, Cartmell started to trade on eBay under the user name ‘2006Cartmell’. www.theboltonnews.co.uk

A Banksy artwork has attracted bids of more than £200,000 on eBay, the successful bidder will have to cut out part of a concrete wall to take it home.
The stencilled design, which shows a classically-dressed painter putting the finishing touches to the real artist’s scrawled name, has so far received bids pushing the [...]

The seller claims that a train set comprising of a American Flyer “S” Gauge Set 1959 -1960 is responsaible for his house being haunted.
“New house, new surprises, we start hearing sounds, sometimes noises, sometimes children voices; we would have the feeling of somebody passing through the other empty room, creepy things. I say we, [...]

DSI Insurance, a leading provider of private shipping insurance, has announced the first release of their eReport suite of software reporting applications, DSI eReport for eBay, which allows eBay users to electronically report insured shipment information via end-to-end API integration.
DSI offers alternative shipping insurance coverage for items shipped via the major shipping carriers. Many DSI [...]