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Firms jump on the eBay wagon: Here's an article about eBay proxy companies outfits that take your merchandise and sell it on eBay for you, taking a commission off the top. We've talked about these before. This article explains how eBay is really working to help these firms instead ...

Now You Can Leave the eBay Selling to Them: So you want to sell something on eBay, but you don't want to...well, sell it on eBay. Take it to AuctionDrop or a host of imitators. They'll photograph it, enter and maintain the listing on eBay, ship the merchandise to the ...

EBay seller boycott set to start Monday: I know there have been eBay boycott s before, but this one seems to have some real heft behind it. CNN has been reporting on it regularly, and there s more push behind this one than I ve ever seen. The boycott, planned to run Feb. ...

EBay flirts with digital music downloads: It was probably inevitable. Online auction giant eBay Inc. will allow some customers to buy and sell digital music files as part of a pilot program that could piggyback on the success of Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes service. San Jose, Calif.-based eBay said ...

EBay thief reveals tricks of the trade "Kenneth calls his victims 'my customers,' and the scam they fall for is relatively straightforward. It starts with a 'phisher' e-mail to perhaps 1,000 eBay users, telling them their accounts will be closed unless they supply their user name and password. Sometimes, as ...

'Integrity of eBay markeplace' at risk - sellers' group | The Register: All is apparently not well in the house of eBay. It has been a bad few days for eBay. Last week more than $12bn was wiped off the value of the dotcom auction house as it warned that ...

Microsoft, eBay hook up software and auction data: Not a bad idea, I suppose. Developers can tap into eBay's data and offer them directly to Microsoft's programs, such as Excel and FrontPage, without having to go through a Web browser. Under the joint effort between Microsoft and Ebay, both companies ...

A descending garage door busted my sunroof wind deflector the other day (I was in the beam!!! Grrr ) so I went looking for one on eBay. I really like how their search results work. This strikes me as highly usable.

Forbes.com: EBay Buys 25 Percent Stake in Craigslist: Bet Craig is happy. If you've never heard of Craigslist, look here. Online auctioneer eBay Inc. said Friday that it purchased a 25 percent pre-existing stake in San Jose, Calif.-based online marketplace craigslist. With sites in 45 cities around the world, craigslist ...

e Boo Boos - Misspelled Items and Auctions on eBay: Bargains can be had on eBay when people misspell the items they're listing. Since they're not spelled right, no one finds them, and no one bids on them. Proving that no hole goes unfilled, here's the first (see comments) a ...

Internet helps recreate swampland scams that swindle buyers: Fascinating how the Internet makes the old new again. This scam will be introduced to a whole new generation of people who are too young to remember when it was huge. They're selling these things on eBay. Padamjeet Singh wouldn't be able ...

Uncle Sam's gotta get his cut, too: "The big issue is whether you're doing it as a business or not." [...] If someone is selling the junk that is collecting dust in a garage or basement, then that person probably is getting less than he paid for it no ...

'Error' sends bank files to eBay: A guy buys some used Netfinity servers from the Bank of Montreal and begins to re-sell them on eBay. Just after he posts them, he realizes the hard drives aren't empty... "Information in one of the computers included the names, addresses and phone numbers ...

What would you pay for a good grilled cheese sandwich? How about a ten year old grilled cheese sandwich? What if it had a picture of the Virgin Mary on it? GoldenPalace.com, an online casino, bought the thing on eBay, with their top bid of $28,000. (Diana) Duyser said she ...

A while back we talked about a grilled cheese sandwich with the image of the Virgin Mary on it, which sold for $28,000 on Ebay. Today I heard a story on the radio about Miles Bradley, an antique dealer in Chamberlain, SD just down the road a piece ...

Gmail accounts go up for bid: I suppose there would be some glamour value in having "bob@gmail.com" for an address. Beta testers invited by Google to take part in its new free e-mail service also received invitations to give to another person, but many are being auctioned on eBay, so ...

With Lindows becoming Linspire as a result of their settlement with Microsoft, certain items have to go: Slightly Used, Amazingly Versatile 7-Letter Kit You get not one, not two, but SEVEN letters! (Letters included: L-I-N-D-O-W-S) These letters have had a fascinating history and brought good fortune to the previous owner, ...

Gas prices drive Geos from clunkers to chic: Apparently this is the hot car to sell on eBay. The 1996 2-door 3-cylinder Metro Solomon now owns opened on eBay May 7 with a bid of $200. A week later, Solomon won the car auction with a bid of $7,300. In ...

freebiddingtools.com Create your own RSS feed for your favourite eBay search... How handy! From Lockergnome.

A while back, Deane asked the question that's on a lot of minds; "Where's my flying car?" Well, Moller built one just one and now it's up for bids on eBay. Own the one and only prototype of the Moller M400 Skycar. This test vehicle has flown repeatedly ...

Someone recently tried selling on eBay a song that they downloaded from iTunes Music Service, and was promptly shut down. So, the question that arises is, when you purchase a song from a service such as IMS, what is it that you're actually buying? And are your rights of ownership ...

Last week, eBay told the current owner of the BMW 320i that was once owned by Dylan Klebold that listing it for auction there was in violation of eBay's TOS banning "Muderabilia". It's said that the Columbine killers drove to the school in that car and had rigged it to ...

eBay item #3626246138 is obviously a joke (isn't it?) but wont the seller have to pay a hefty commission?

$206.01 for a mousepad!? Entertaining piece of reading on an ebay auction for an original Apple Clarus Dogcow Mousepad. Almost as entertaining as Apple Developer Tech Note #31, The Dogcow. Even more Dogcow history can be found at Moof in Mind. Can you say MOOF? I knew you could!

My Wired News Wishes for 2004: Some great idea here. Tim for President. I wish that the various web services data vendors (including Amazon, Google, EBay, Salesforce.com, and many others) would realize that they comprise the building blocks of a future "internet operating system", and act accordingly, engaging with each ...

Gmail Invitation Prices Crash: A good lesson in economics here. On Monday morning, invitations to join the testing of Google's Gmail Web e-mail service were still fetching as much as $100 on eBay closed auctions. By Wednesday afternoon, sellers were lucky to crack the $20 mark. Increased supply is the ...

BRAND NEW VEEKER ML9 PAINTBALL MINI GUN: This paintball gun is for sale on eBay. It shoots 48 balls per second per barrel and weights more than 150 lbs. It's powered by a tank of compressed air carried in an attached backpack. The bid as I write this is 8,000 ...

Supercomputer System (Cray T3E-1200E): Awesome auction item over at eBay. System Cost exceeded $3,500,000 in June 1999 when installed. In 1999 Cray Supercomputer was the world fastest, and this Cray T3E-1200E Supercomputer was near the top of the list. Powerful, scalable computing resource that allows scientists to solve computationally intensive ...

The Gaming Open Market - Welcome: Our first available service is the GOM Currency Exchange (GCX). The GCX makes buying and selling your game currency incredibly easy with our market overview and historical charting. Each currency has its own page where we consolidate all buyers and sellers giving you the ...

That's right; a tube sock to hold an iPod, and it's up for grabs on eBay. From the looks of the pictures linked to the auction, it's not even a new sock. The thought process that went into developing this product must've really been something. A true creative genius at ...

Here's another rss feed to add to your favorite aggregator: Ebay2RSS. I couldn't get the first option to work, but if you copy the search url from Ebay into the second part it will create an rss feed for the item you are searching for. The url does get a ...

Why 'Bottom Up' is on its way up: Interesting look about how the Internet is enabling the common man to start trends, spread the word, and push agendas. What do these things have in common: the TV show American Idol, Howard Dean's presidential campaign, eBay, and the open-source Linux operating ...

HP's Fiorina leads Fortune's most powerful women's list: The CEO of eBay is number two. Just two of the top five are tech-related (three if you count Xerox), compared to eight of the top ten overall. "Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina is the most powerful woman in business, according to a ...

eBay: Vintage SAEHAN eiger labs mpman mp f10 mp3 player: The MP3 player as an antique. There's a picture -- it's big. Extremely Rare !!! Vintage 1997 Mp man F10 from eiger labs / saehan !! This is the very 1st MP3 player produced : months before the Rio diamond. ...

eBay item 2450501898 - Aircraft carrier (deommissioned ) for sale: I don't know if this is legit, but still very cool Suggested usage: tourist attraction, ocean-restaurant, museum, amusement park, hotel-on-the-ocean, etc. If you anchor it in the harbor and use it as a tourist attraction during the day, and use ...

Wired News: BlackBerry Reveals Bank's Secrets: Never sell anything... "The eBay ad read 'BlackBerry RIM sold AS IS!' So Eugene Sacks (not his real name), a Seattle computer consultant who always wanted one of the pager-size devices to check his e-mail, sent in a bid. For just $15.50, he bought ...

RadioShack putting Skype on U.S. map: Skype is about to go nuts. Skype, the Internet-calling phenomenon that eBay acquired for $4.1 billion, is set to break into the U.S. consumer mainstream by selling its telephone kits in RadioShack stores. [...] Beginning Monday, RadioShack, based in Fort Worth, Texas, will feature ...

On the Web, vengeance is mine (and mine): Interesting story about vigilantism on the Web. One of the self-appointed auction cops...sends e-mail to potentially fraudulent sellers asking them about their auctions. But he attaches surveillance software that reveals information about the seller, and he uses that information to track them ...

...just like Captain James T. Kirk of the Starship Enterprise! But only if you're quick enough to bid top dollar on this Star Trek Bluetooth Communicator that's for sale on Ebay. This is the only working Star trek communicator in existence. It's a one of a kind prototype. You can ...

Post-Pricing: Is It Crazy Enough to Work?: Here's a new business model for you: get and use a product first, then decide how much you want to pay for it. "The patent, 'Method and apparatus for post-transaction pricing system', was granted earlier in June, and Murcko is now taking the ...

Michael Chaney's Personal Web Page at Doublewide: Since Microsoft apparently forgot to renew the hotmail.co.uk domain, to disastrous consequences, I think it's only fitting that we look back on the time they forgot to review hotmail.com back in 1999. Here's the story from the guy who fixed that problem with ...

Early Days Of a Data-Sharing Revolution: Here's a really interesting story about how companies are licensing their data to other companies for some really obscure purposes that you wouldn't have thought of. A new version of Intuit Inc.'s ItsDeductible software, which hit retail stores last week, uses eBay's auction prices ...

With all of the people displaced by the hurricane activity this year, Uncle Sam has been working hard to keep people housed & fed, but it seems that some are trying to take advantage of the situation. It seems that a lot of the MRE's (Meal, Ready to Eat) that ...

USATODAY.com - Tiny signs of life bloom in Silicon Valley: This is the latest in several articles I've read lately about Silicon Valley coming back to life. "Year-over-year job losses in Santa Clara County — the heart of the Valley — are easing. Median home prices, among the highest in ...

Blatant Plagiarism: Another instance of Web content being stolen, just like Shirley's a couple of weeks ago. And, just like that instance, they took the page down after word leaked out. "Not only is our text being used word-for-word, but two of the images (for Syndic8 and Daypop) are images ...

This blog posting has spawned its own Web site: fakescrowsites.com The comments on this entry are closed as of June 10, 2004 so we can start transitioning people to the new site. Con victims out $10,000 or more: Here's a whole bunch of horror stories about fake escrow company ...

Hannah Montana Tickets on Sale! Oops, They’re Gone: Interesting article about the bot war TicketMaster has with scalpers. There s a program out there called PurchaseMaster which is tuned in to TicketMaster s purchasing process and will start pounding it as soon as tickets go on sale. What s interesting is how they ...

Web Sites Listed as 'Terror' Groups: This seems a little fishy to me. Is the enemy the Web site, or the organization behind it? If you give money to a "Web site," you're really giving money to the organization that runs the site, right? "The United States has added Web ...

My office is moving to a new building in a few days. We have at least 100 programming books of many flavors which we have accumulated and for which we have no more need. One of them, Teach Yourself Web Publishing With Html 3.2 in 14 Days by Laura Lemay, ...

"22nd Century" Tucson Arizona Estate: There's quite an estate on the market in Tucson. My buddy Ryan sent me a link to a listing for it on eBay (yeah, right, it'll sell there...) complete with what looks like a reprint from Unique Homes magazine (though I couldn't find it on ...

I needed to find out the public IP for my workplace just now, so went to my old standby whatismyip.com. When you hit that page your IP address is at the top very handy and no monkey business but today there was a notice down below that the ...

I'm trying to find a good deal on Dreamweaver MX 2004, since I don't want to drop $400 on it (I'm cheap). I head over to eBay to see what I can find, and see lots of dealls for $200 - $300. However, every single one of these deals is ...

If you've ever wanted to be the grand marshall in a parade, here's your chance. The 286 residents of the booming town of Kennebec, South Dakota are celebrating their centennial this summer, and the honor of acting as grand marshall is being sold to the highest bidder on an eBay ...

Easton Press Online Catalog: I love Easton Press. They make leather reproductions of classic books I have 35 of them on my bookcase. I collected them one at a time for three years while I was in college. Right next to them, I have a complete reproduction set of ...

Tired of talking on that tiny cellphone handset that makes your ear sweat and only comes to the back of your jawbone when you hold it to your ear? Nick Poole's Pokia is a crazy bit of retro chic that turns old 70's-style phone handsets into cellphone accessories. His latest ...

Last Stand for First Sale: Here's a fascinating discussion about whether or not someone can rightfully sell a legal copy of a piece of software they purchased. A woman tried to sell a copy of Dress Shop 5 Pro on eBay, and was contacted by the manufacturer and advised that ...

The Mozilla Foundation has released the 0.8 release of my favorite browser. However, perhaps in order to escape withering criticism from owen ;-), they have yet again changed the name of the browser to Firefox. The new release marks a significant milestone on the development roadmap towards the highly anticipated ...

Why I don't recommend Firefox: Adam doesn't think that Firefox is ready to be unleashed on all users just yet. He makes some good points. Firefox right now is very good for an experienced net user, but is not at all ready for the average person. If you plan on ...

Matt Webb has postulated a fascinating theory about the dot-com bubble, and why so much money got thrown after so many crazy ideas. A great article and a must-read for web folks. The huge influx of cash at the turn of the millennium led to the whole Web being built ...

A long time ago, in the wee hours of the morning, I made a post to Gadgetopia entitled Fake Escrow Sites. It was a posting about how crooks use fake escrow sites to cheat people out of money. It was just one or two sentences, and it linked to a ...

Gamer buys $26,500 virtual land: At first, I thought this was the stupidest thing I've ever heard of. A 22-year-old gamer has spent $26,500 on an island that exists only in a computer role-playing game. [...] The land exists within the game Project Entropia, an RPG which allows thousands of ...

I bought a FireWire hard drive enclosure the other day, and I'm awfully happy with it. It cost about $45 and I filled it with an old 40GB hard drive I had lying around. It works beautifully plug it into a FireWire port and you get a G: drive. ...