Archive for July, 2007
Win a $75 eBay Gift Certificate/Coupon
I received an email from a Masters student at the London School of Economics who requested that I pass along a link to her thesis survey. The survey is on eBay and bidding practices and really only takes about 5-10 minutes depending on your connection. The questions are very straight forward and easy to answer. [...]
Harry Potter misprints causing stir
I think it goes without saying that if you make several million of something, you’re bound to make a mistake or two. It’s inevitable. Which is why I think it less surprising than some that there are misprints and errors in some of the latest Harry Potter book. Deathly Hallows is the seventh and final [...]
Second rotation: eBay recycling for gadgets
If you’ve thought about selling those old cell phones and other gadgets on eBay but ended up thinking it would be just a little too much for you to do, there still may be hope for making money with them. Second Rotation is a company that buys second hand gadgets and then turns around and [...]
Gallery required on eBay France
TameBay is reporting that the gallery feature is now a requirement on listings for eBay.fr (eBay France). You can see the announcement, but since I can’t read French, I’ll just have to take TameBay’s word on it. As a general rule, the foreign (to U.S.) eBay sites are the first to get to try new [...]
PPCalc – Reverse Paypal calculator
If you’ve ever wanted to find a price for something that would include the paypal fee, but got stuck in the math of it, here’s a tool just for you. PPCalc will compute, based on a few variables, what the paypal fee will be for the sale. A pretty cool tool for those of us [...]
Dutch museum liquidating art through eBay
The Dutch national museums are putting up about 1000 articles of the national art collection on eBay from now to October. Between now and October 1,000 works of art, at the rate of 50 a week, will by auctioned on eBay. Raymakers said the government was not looking to make money from the artworks but [...]
Seller changes coming on eBay
eBay seems to have outgrown itself lately. And management is beginning to realize that. You’ll see more changes in the next 12 months on our site than you’ve probably seen in the last three or four years In the same interview, Meg Whitman discusses the over commoditization of the market and a drift from what [...]
Value pack only $0.25 tomorrow and Thursday!
The value pack, which includes a Gallery picture, Subtitle, and listing designer will be one sale on July 18 and 19, 2007. It normally runs for $0.65, so it’s a $0.40 discount. Doesn’t sound like much, but if you’re listing lots of listings, it could mean a small bit of change. And every little bit [...]
Northwest Airlines now accepting PayPal
Northwest airlines is now accepting PayPal payments for airline tickets bought online. As a bonus, they’re offering 500 bonus miles for every round trip ticket bought between now and September 30, 2007. Travel has to be completed by the end of the year, but that gives plenty of time for those of you who do [...]
e2bid.com — Online auctions for Charity
If you like giving, you’ll want to head on over to e2bid.com. They are a non-profit (from what I can tell) that gives the seller 100% of the sale price and then donates the listing price to the charity of the sellers choice. At the moment, there are only 9 charities listed as available for [...]
