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 Base is Google’s database into which you can…

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 catch the thiefs (for that is surely what…