Archive for May, 2007
IRS is on it’s way. Are you keeping books?
Everybody knows that the IRS want’s to dip it’s fingers into the eBay pot. It’s not enough that the sales on eBay create millions of dollars in economy boosting sales. It’s not enough that many of the U.S sellers do a great deal of overseas deals. It’s not enough that most of us that are [...]
Wanna buy a company? Try eBay.
More and more companies are turning to online auction giant eBay to liquidate themselves. More than 10 dot-coms have recently sought buyers on the popular auction site. Search engine DigForIt.com sold for $25,400 this month after promising bidders “great revenue potential.” SynapseLife, an online calendar and organizational site, sold for $60,000 despite warning it had [...]
eBay to increase affiliate payouts June 1
As of June 1st 2007 eBay will be increasing their payouts to affiliates. The new structure will pay out between 50% and 75% depending on the total amount of sales that are created through your affiliate links with the 50% tier ending at $99.99 and the 75% tier beginning at $3,000,000.00 and above. Payouts for [...]
Stanford Students beat eBay/Mozilla to eBay toolbar
eBay released their Firefox add-on in the U.K., France, and Germany. It’s still in Beta, and is still being tested before being released in the U.S. Too bad they weren’t the first to release an eBay toolbar for Firefox. A group of design students at Stanford University have released an eBay toolbar for Firefox, myEBayFox, [...]
Paypal becomes a bank in Europe
eBay subsidiary PayPal is to become a bank in Europe. As part of the move, PayPal will move it’s European headquarters to Luxembourg, where the banking license was given. It’s a pretty good deal for PayPal and their owners eBay as the move to become a bank will give them a little more of a [...]
Yahoo! shuttering Yahoo! Auctions
Yahoo told AuctionBytes that they would be closing down the Yahoo! Auctions as of June 16th. Yahoo Auctions will no longer accept listings as of June 3, 2007, on the US and Canadian sites, which will close on June 16, 2007. The last day to bid or buy is June 16, 2007, and users will [...]
eBay plugin released for Mozilla in France, England, and Germany
It seems like the European countries are the perpetual crash test dummies for just about any eBay tool. They’re released to Europe and tested then slowly rolled out to the US after they can confirm their working in Europe. As such, it shouldn’t come as any surprise that Mozilla released an eBay plugin for their [...]
Pennsylvania eBayers: auctioneer licenses needed?
The Pennsylvania Bureau of Professional and Occupational affairs is currently considering a case involving two eBay consignment stores. They are being investigated for selling items at auction without an auctioneer license. While many states have considered requiring auctioneer licenses for all ebayers, this seems to be pointed more at the consignment stores. And really, if [...]
Advertise on eBay Habit!
We’ve been asked a few times and now we finally have listings available through the Text Link Ads service. If you’d like to purchase a text link or RSS ad they are $22.00 a month. The text link gets your link in front of nearly 200 eyes a day and a RSS ad gets your [...]
eBay ToGo creates widgets for any website
eBay launched the ToGo service for website owners and webmasters that gives them the ability to embed a flash widget into any website. You can refine the auctions down to any one auction or just a group of auctions by keyword/search. The problem with this is that you don’t get paid for it. If you [...]
