Auction giant eBay was recently fined more than 74million dollars for allowing the sale of knock-off designer purses to go unabated.
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Articles on eBayAuction giant eBay was recently fined more than 74million dollars for allowing the sale of knock-off designer purses to go unabated. There has been a new rash of "Receipt for your payment to" eBay Paypal phishing spam which is intended to elicit a shock response causing the target to rush to log into their Paypal account to figure out why they are being charged hundreds to thousands of dollars for an eBay purchase which they know that they didn't actually make. Ian Usher, a British man living down under, has put his entire life up for sale on eBay. The winning bidder - and there are bidders - gets Usher's house, the contents of his house, his car, even his job. Says Ian Usher, "On the day it is all sold and settled I intend to walk out of my front door with my wallet in one pocket and my passport in the other." But would you really want his life? We've done some digging, and we think not. Ever wonder what percentage of the Post Office's revenue comes from Amazon or eBay shipping? We wondered, and here is what we found out. What we discovered was fascinating, and makes one wonder just why postage rates continue to go up, up, up. Paypal has announced that they are going to block the Apple Safari web browser, along with a few other browsers. The online payment service, purchased by eBay for $1.5B back in 2002, in the good old days of rampant Internet mergers and acquisitions, has become a frequent target of phishers and hackers. Anxious to recapture their good name and to offer to sellers and buyers alike a more secure environment, PayPal plans to discontinue support for web browsers that do not include anti-phishing capabilities. If this plan goes through, PayPal will block Safari and older versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, and Netscape. We suppose that you can't really blame a company for pushing their own products, but still, it seems just a tad disingenuous for eBay to offer a "safety tip" which amounts to dissing the competition, and hawking their own services. Recently eBay began displaying ... Now, we all know the importance of feedback. Giving feedback is what allows businesses to even better serve their customers. And we're all familiar with feedback forms on all sorts of sites, the quintessential example being the feedback form for eBay feedback. There are all types of feedback - positive feedback, negative feedback, and even constructive feedback which may be neither. But demanded feedback? Giving and receiving feedback should be a voluntary act. Demanding that I leave feedback for a transaction with you may lead to destructive feedback, or maybe I should learn how to give scholarly constructive feedback that feels positive when it isn't! I mean, why provide feedback at all if it's going to be so strained? Why do you feel entitled to - indeed - how dare you demand feedback from me? [And check out how eBay is forcing sellers to leave buyers only positive eBay feedback - no more eBay negative feedback for buyers with the new eBay seller feedback rule!] eBay has announced that beginning in May, sellers will no longer be able to leave negative - and perhaps not even neutral - feedback about users (buyers), even though buyers can still leave scathing comments about sellers. This is, eBay claims, because the possiblity that sellers could post bad things about them scares a lot of users off. Want to become an eBay seller without having to sell things on eBay? Want to know how to start an eBay business, and how to make easy money on eBay, without actually selling on eBay? One of the little- known facts about eBay - one of the best eBay secrets - the one that all those lists of eBay selling tips never tell you - is that the best eBay alternative may be eBay itself! (We are talking about eBay USA, but this information is applicable to other eBay .com sites as well.) We'll also tell you how to sign up for Commission Junction (CJ), what a CJ PID number is, and where to find your Commission Junction PID number! Countless people have received email which appears to come from eBay, with the rather alarming message "eBay Unpaid Item Dispute for Item", adding to the urgency with "Response Required". If you get one of these and your first response is "Huh? I don't have any open items for sale at eBay" or even "Huh? I don't have an eBay account", you're not alone. Because this is the newest phishing attempt to spoof eBay. Prince - who was formerly known as "the artist formerly known as Prince", due to his adoption of a symbol in place of his name for a period of time - has engaged the aid of online rights audit and enforcement firm Web Sheriff. On behalf of Prince, WebSheriff has threatened both YouTube and eBay with lawsuits if they don't remove what Prince claims is infringing material. Web Sherrif principle John Giacobbi says that eBay and YouTube need to "smell the coffee." A problem with the eBay,com system is causing sellers to be given the wrong shipping addresses to which to send items to winning bidders. As a result, an item purchased through eBay .com may never make it to the purchaser, instead going to some other address (in at least one known case, to an address that the purchaser had used once, years earlier). info http attr search ebay com h Lots of people are receiving a purported "customer notice" from eBay. It starts out "Please note that this is a system generated email." And goes on to state that "eBay has sent you this message to remind you its time to update your account details. To ensure your account continues to function normally it is recommended you update your details." It looks very real, but it's actually a phish originating from Moldova. Two years ago we warned you that the IRS was going to look at taxing income made by selling things on eBay. Some of you didn't believe us. Some even counselled not to worry about it. But sure enough, it's almost certainly going to happen, and sooner, it would appear, rather than later. In what is believed to be a first of its kind lawsuit, a court has held that a person who buys something through eBay from an out-of-state seller cannot sue the seller in the buyer's home state. Yep, it's true. You can get almost anything on eBay, including the birthplace of that iconic American, Walt Disney. To own this piece of Americana, you just have to be willing to move to Chicago (or to be a long distance landlord, if you want to rent it out). Auction giant eBay has announced that it is prohibiting the sale of teacher editions of textbooks. Teacher's editions of textbooks often contain study guides, solutions to textbook problems, and answers to exams. You may not be aware of this, but when you purchase something through eBay or, really, any online service, and you pay for shipping insurance, that insurance does not actually go to you if anything happens to the item. Last week eBay announced tentative plans to allow people to sell live pets through eBay. The announcement prompted such a backlash that today eBay has announced that those plans have been scuttled. Auction giant eBay has taken a stand against the thousands of auctions involving pirated copies of Microsoft software which regularly appear on its pages. Google has been quietly testing a new service, called "Google Base", which allows you to list items on Google. Leaked screenshots of Google Base show a form where you can enter your listing, and which says: "Post your items on Google. Google ... eBay's Giving Works and MissionFish may be a dream for charities, but it's a nightmare for participating eBay sellers. It's bad enough we have to worry about the charity scams, now we have to worry about the "good guys"? 2Search spyware is nasty stuff. It shows up uninvited on your computer, and then hijacks your web browser, taking you places you don't really want to go, and exposing you to even more spyware. This is pretty interesting stuff. According to Iraq Museum International, it has detected a pattern of what it calls "eBay sniping", in which bids are intentionally and artificially inflated to ensure that a legitimate bidder pays top dollar, and has managed to ... What do you get for the person who has everything? Well, if you, or they, or hopefully both, have a good sense of humour (or..something..), perhaps you might want to get them the ear wax which is currently up for bid on eBay. ... Here's an interesting item which came across Aunty's desk this morning - somehow this feels like the line between churc..er...eBay and state is being crossed: WASHINGTON, June 20 -- Quick, easy, convenient -- and effective. That's all customers need to know ... Have you ever sold anything on eBay? Be it a grilled cheese sandwich with the image of the Virgin Mary, your ex-girlfriend's wedding dress with you in it, or your unwashed underwear, the IRS may want its cut. Nothing is ... Ok, forget the Holy Grilled Cheese Pan being sold on eBay. Mother of five Terri Iligan put her name, "Terri Iligan", up for sale on eBay, agreeing to give up the name Terri Iligan, and adopt whatever name the highest eBay bidder ... |
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