Archive for 'Auction News' Category
uBid gets Yahoo! Auctions users
28 June 2007Ina Steiner is reporting that uBid and Yahoo! Auctions has inked a deal to transfer the sellers to the uBid auction platform.
I wasn’t able to find any confirmation of the deal that was supposed to be announced sometime last week, but Ina usually doesn’t get this stuff wrong. If it can be [...]
IRS is on it’s way. Are you keeping books?
29 May 2007Everybody 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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Jamestown College uses online auction for fund raiser
10 April 2007Jamestown College (my alma mater) has held the annual Dine and Bid fundraiser for years. This year, they are using software called cMarket to run an online auction before the live auction.
Items include golf packages, Nintendo Wii, candles, Bose speakers, a pizza a month for 12 months, and much, much more. [...]