Posted in Latest News on Sep 5th, 2008

eBay announced a new e-commerce site, WorldOfGood.com for socially responsible products.
eBay launched the site with World of Good, Inc., a start-up that aims to increase ethical consumption by informing retail partners about ethical supply chains.
The site, features products that are made from recycled, natural, organic, and animal friendly materials and ingredients.
“WorldofGood.com by eBay gives shoppers [...]
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Posted in Latest News on Aug 23rd, 2008
VideoBusiness.com:
EBay might look like a hotbed of DVD sales, with more than 160 bids on 60 listings for best-selling Alvin and the Chipmunks, but Internet retailers using the service say business is not necessarily booming.
“I don’t really know how anyone is keeping money from the DVD business—they’re just churning cash,” said Randy Byrne, who sold [...]
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Posted in Latest News, Tools & Resources on Aug 21st, 2008

EbayInkBlog:
Starting Sept. 16, eBay is reducing up-front risk for sellers of Buy It Now fixed price items by lowering the insertion fee to 35 cents and the listing duration will be extended to 30 days (rather than the previous 7).
Additionally, listing fees will be lowered even further in the media categories (movies, music, games, [...]
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Posted in Latest News on Aug 21st, 2008

Independent.co.uk:
The online auction giant eBay has simplified and slashed its charges on fixed-price items sold on its site, as it seeks to compete more aggressively with its rival Amazon by enticing small businesses and big ticket retailers to its website.
EBay UK said the pricing changes, which comes into effect on 24 September in the [...]
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Posted in Latest News on Aug 19th, 2008
MarketWatch.com:
Terapeak, an eBay Certified Provider, today announced that Marketplace Research by Terapeak is being offered as an alternative for eBay Marketplace Research, which eBay plans to retire as of September 15th, 2008.
Available to all existing eBay Marketplace Research subscribers, and to all eBay users going forward, the tool will be accessible from the eBay website, [...]
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Posted in Latest News, Payment Gateway on Aug 18th, 2008
Here’s some good back-to-school news for parents – Paypal has recently launched a website that offers the hottest deals this season. At PayPal’s back-to-school website, you can get up to 50% on almost everything – from clothing to school supplies and electronics.
And here’s where it gets even better. Parents can now use their PayPal accounts [...]
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Posted in Latest News on Aug 13th, 2008
4Hoteliers.com:
eBay and Webjet are entering a commercial arrangement for the supply, distribution and marketing of hotels online through eBay.com.au.
The partnership brings together Webjet’s unique hotel services aggregator which electronically provides in excess of 50,000 worldwide hotels with year round (not just leftover) inventory with eBay’s very special and enormous customer database which totals over 5 [...]
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Posted in Latest News on Aug 12th, 2008
Telegraph.co.uk
Thousands of knives are being bought by teenagers online using websites which fail to restrict the age of buyers, according to new research.
The findings showed the ease with which a variety of weapons, from pocket knives to machetes, could be brought over the internet and raised further fears over police efforts to curb knife crime [...]
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Posted in Latest News on Aug 11th, 2008
Going, going, gone? Furious fans have accused eBay, the website that brought auctions to the internet, of betrayal. They are upset by a decision to lurch away from the website’s original format and instead allow major retailers to list thousands of products at fixed prices.
The trend, they warn, marks the beginning of the end for [...]
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Posted in Latest News, Scams & Hacks on Aug 6th, 2008

People hoping to attend the Beijing Olympic Games have become victims of an international Internet ticket scam in which thousands of fake tickets were offered the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said today.
The IOC and the United States Olympic Committee filed a lawsuit last week accusing at least half a dozen Web sites of selling [...]
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