Category: eBay

Even if you have to sell your soul to get them, there's always a way to find tickets to overhyped events online. But with the expected popularity of Barack Obama's inauguration, the senator in charge of the shindig is asking eBay and other private sale sites to ban the re-sale of the tickets so nobody has to pay. Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein of California predicts there will be a ...

As newspapers continue to struggle with the tough realities of the Internet age and the media economy, things aren't exactly looking good for the printed news industry. But, yesterday there was an unexpected ray of sunshine left for those still in print: Newspapers nationwide saw a surge in sales as voters sought out something to commemorate this historic election. Many papers in New York, San ...

John McCain may have just made himself a powerful enemy. During Tuesday night's debate, when asked about whom he would choose for treasury secretary, McCain made mention of Meg Whitman, the former CEO of eBay. "Meg Whitman was CEO of a company which started with 12 people," McCain said, which caused Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay, to balk via Twitter. "Ahem. Started with 12 people?," Omidyar ...

Moller International will end an eBay auction for its '80s flying car prototype -- dubbed the M200X -- on Tuesday, according to BoingBoing.net. While there have been any number of flying cars introduced over the years (like this one and this one, for instance), the M200X should really garner the most praise from sci-fi fans, as its UFO-like aesthetics are very much in line with that genre's ...

We'd swear this had to be some sort of spoof on the impeccable James Bond, but sadly enough, the whole thing is true. A secondhand Nikon Coolpix camera which sold on eBay for a mere £17 ($30) turned out to be a real bargain once its new 28-year old owner completed his first image dump. Along with decidedly decent snaps from his US vacation, he also found a number of "top secret" images, ...

Stuff reseller giant eBay is getting in on the whole "environmentally conscious" trend by launching a newest sister site, WorldofGood.com. The site launched earlier this week, and its goal is "to sell goods produced with social and environmental goals in mind, which we assume doesn't mean sweatshop-made PVC Nikes packaged in Styrofoam kryptonite. World of Good Inc. is a company eBay started to ...

Every buy a used hard drive on eBay? If so, did it come with any surprises on-board after you installed it? Imagine how you'd feel if you installed your new (to you) drive and found millions of customer records from various banks! That's exactly what happened to Andrew Chapman from Oxford, England. Chapman bought the used drive for £77 (about $140) and found himself perusing customer records ...

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2008/08/19/angry-father-nails-xbox-to-tree/?icid=100214839x1207699814x1200429117/'; What do you do when your kids get out of hand while playing with their Xbox? Your options are: A time out. No dessert. Nail that Xbox to a tree, dammit! Yes, option number three was in order for a Mechanicsville, Va., father, who apparently had enough of his ...

Tired of waiting for scientists to crack the secrets of levitation in order to purchase a bona fide hoverboard? Look, life's short -- why not take matters into your own hands? A genuine wooden Mattel hoverboard used by Michael J. Fox (or Marty McFly, as we prefer to call him) in 'Back to the Future II' and 'III' is up for auction, though the barrier to entry is rather substantial. Of course, ...

Those unlocked 1st gen iPhones are going for a surprisingly high chunk of change on eBay, but that's nothing compared to the prices people are willing to pay for the new iPhone 3G. Unboxed and supposedly unlocked varieties (though we haven't heard of any functioning unlocking tools) are fetching prices well in excess of $1,000 for the 16 GB variety. Even the 8 GB iPhone is going for $800-$900. ...

You might not be aware of it, but your old iPhone is worth a considerable sum of money. Some questionably honest businesses are even making a profit by buying up used first generation iPhones from unsuspecting American customers and reselling them at a hefty profit. One such shop was passing around fliers outside of an Apple retail outlet offering the full price of a 3G upgrade ($199 for an 8 ...

Though just barely a year old, many Apple fanatics will be going out to replace the original iPhone, which they paid five or six hundred dollars for. So what to do with what is essentially very expensive junk? One suggestion is to simply deactivate it and use it as an iPod Touch. The iPhone will still function as a media player and be able to access the Internet via Wi-Fi, even without a ...

For months, we've been following the tale of Ian Usher, an Australian man who decided to put all his worldly possessions online for sale. The auction, which started a week ago, closed yesterday. Usher's life went for a rather disappointing sum of just $380,286. That's less than his house alone was worth! Also included in the auction was his motorcycle, car, jet ski, and a whole cadre of friends. ...

Remember when eBay was all about getting tickets to sold-out Radiohead concerts and Superbowls and stuff? Now you can get lots of gross and unnecessary things on there, like this Kate Moss hair extension, which the supermodel "shed" in Germany while fleeing the paparazzi. The victorious hair-finder, (fashion equivalent of the guy who catches a fly ball in his beer at a Yankees game) is ...

Proving once again that it's always the smiley-faced, rosey-cheeked cherub that has the human skeletons in its closet, sunshine-and-rainbow-drenched video game purveyor Nintendo has come in dead last in a ranking of the world's most eco-friendly electronics companies. The quarterly "Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics" ranks 18 electronics firms by how green their production processes and ...