Archive for May, 2007
Yahoo! shuttering Yahoo! Auctions
23 May 2007Yahoo 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 [...]
eBay plugin released for Mozilla in France, England, and Germany
22 May 2007It 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 [...]
Pennsylvania eBayers: auctioneer licenses needed?
22 May 2007The 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. [...]
Advertise on eBay Habit!
21 May 2007We’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 [...]
eBay ToGo creates widgets for any website
21 May 2007eBay 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. [...]