Archive for January, 2009

Phillip Rinn To Lead eBay Advertising Hub

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

eBay Advertising has confirmed the appointment of Phillip Rinn as their director of advertising partnerships UK, Ireland and EMEA, to lead the market leading online auction company’s London-based advertising hub.

ProPay Extends eAuction Accounts to eBay’s Bronze PowerSellers

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

ProPay, the industry’s most comprehensive provider of simple, safe and affordable merchant payment solutions, is extending its integrated eAuction Account to eBay Bronze PowerSellers. With the inclusion of Bronze PowerSellers, ProPay’s services are now available to all US eBay PowerSellers.
With ProPay’s eAuction Account, eBay Power Sellers can accept all four major credit cards for [...]

WorthPoint Signs Partnership Agreement with Terapeak

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

WorthPoint Corporation Thursday announced that it has signed a seven-year partnership agreement with Terapeak, the industry leader in eBay research and education.
Victoria, British Columbia-based Terapeak, a subsidiary of Advanced Ecommerce Research Systems Inc. (AERS), provides eBay sellers and buyers with two years of trending data to help target the best products to sell, as well [...]

Photography Treasures Found on eBay

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

The International Center of Photography is opening a show with items from eBay. Curator Brian Wallis was alerted to a listing on eBay for 4,000 of Harper’s Bazaar photographer Martin Munkacsi’s long-lost negatives. He drove to the seller’s house in Connecticut and found 300 boxes with images of Jean Harlow, Katharine Hepburn, and Fred Astaire.
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WatchCount.com Offers Collectors Way to Scrutinize eBay Items

Monday, January 5th, 2009

WatchCount.com is gaining prominence as a new, helpful website to identify popular items on the internet’s largest trading platform, eBay. With the doors closed on 2008, WatchCount.com recognizes its accomplishments throughout during the year but especially in recent months where it forged a partnership with a major ecommerce trade association and garnished several accolades and [...]

South Wales Man Jailed for eBay Scam

Sunday, January 4th, 2009

Newport Crown Court has heard how Huw Rees, 28, led a double life away from his British Transport Police job, selling fake designer clothes under the online user name “hugeandhard”and then wired cash to Thailand in a major money-laundering operation.
Police and trading standards investigators discovered nearly £100,000 of illegal proceeds had gone into eBay accounts [...]