Xiroth writes “In what could cause an escalation of tensions between the two internet giants, an anonymous critique of eBay’s upcoming move to accepting only PayPal as the payment method in Australia has accidently been revealed to have been submitted by Google thanks to PDF meta-tags.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Selling décor items on eBay takes planning. It sounds like a great idea: Instead of selling your Limoges vase locally, put it on eBay. Then sit back as buyers from around the world engage in a frenzied bidding war, driving the price up into the stratosphere.
Should have used Google Docs eBay Australia’s decision to force customers from next month to use its own payment service, PayPal, has infuriated a good number of individuals and organizations steamed.…
SAGINAW - Going once, going twice: twin 360-foot slides from Saginaw’s defunct Andersen Water Park! Web browsers may bid on items from the once-popular water park on eBay in an unusual fundraising effort from Saginaw leaders.
Why neutral feedback isn’t so neutral, eBay gives discounts to free shipping sellers, uBid shutters Bidville.com and Trading Post launches an auction alternative to eBay. There’s also a new online flyer ad site and a new interactive pricing guide for sellers.
Berlin - A mother, 23, who advertised her baby on eBay for 1 euro as a joke will be reunited Saturday with her baby after a week of psychological tests by German officials who said it was not funny. An alert internet user noticed the online sale offe…
eBay’s ProStores service had an outage on Tuesday evening that knocked merchant websites offline for hours.
eBay users were buzzing over who had submitted the anonymous filing to the Australian regulatory agency that is reviewing eBay’s proposed PayPal-only policy. The 38-page submission argued eBay should not be allowed to exclude competing payment methods.
UK firm SonicZero launched a new eBay alerting service in beta called Stuff Alert. The web-based application is designed to help eBay users easily locate items that are hard to find or not yet listed, as they become available.
eBay’s new Seller Dashboard experienced an outage on Thursday morning. From eBay’s System Announcement Board at 7:18AM PST/PT: