Category: eBay

In these patriotic times you've heard the saying, "Freedom isn't free," right? It seems this goes for both liberty and iPhone calling plans. (Yes, we know its a stretch. Please don't be offended.) The new iPhone 3G, announced by Steve Jobs earlier this month at the Worldwide Developers Conference and hitting Apple Store shelves July 11, will start at $199 for the 8-gigabyte (GB) model and $299 ...

Sick of your tired, boring life? Want a new one? Well, you're in luck, because as it turns out, there's a burgeoning market for the trading of lives. No, we're not talking about underground slave labor. We're talking about people selling their possessions, friends, and even jobs online -- that's right, their whole lives. The latest 'life,' that of Ian Usher's, is going up for auction on eBay ...

We've seen a lot of strange things go up for auction on eBay - a town, a life, a video game collection, even another auction website. Yet we were still shocked when a man attempted to sell his wife via the auction service, and this morning were utterly horrified when we read an article about a German woman who attempted to sell her child on eBay. The 23-year-old mother says she put her child up on ...

The Internet has provided many ways for shaming those who have wronged you, and we thought we'd seen them all. That is, until Paul Osborn decided to auction off his "adulterous, lying, cheating, bitch, whore" of a wife on eBay (his words). Paul found out that his wife and mother of his children, Sharon, was having an affair with a co-worker. His response was to throw her out of the house and ...

A few months back eBay made the controversial decision to remove the ability for sellers to leave negative feedback about buyers. The site said it got too many complaints and decided that the system wasn't worth the trouble. So, with that ability gone, when a seller of some collectible coins felt jilted by a less than positive review from a buyer, he did the purely logical thing, which was to sued ...

It's a widely held belief that eBay and Craigslist, the two premier online places to get rid of your old stuff and buy someone else's, are bitter rivals. While it's true that they're definitely competitors, what's not widely known is that eBay actually owns roughly a third of Craiglist, having bought 28% of the company back in 2004. Odd, then, that eBay would be suing Craigslist (and thus itself) ...

Want access to the newest in military technology without having to deal with such annoyances as "boot camp" and "Iraq"? Just look online. According to a report by the Government Accountability Office (who knew such a thing existed!?), sensitive and stolen U.S. military items are being sold on eBay and Craigslist. The federal investigators posed as buyers, and successfully purchased a dozen ...

Today a group of naked Canadians are considering a class action lawsuit against PayPal. The Federation of Canadian Naturists (FCN) -- an organization for Canadian nudists-- claims that PayPal suddenly cut off its services to them, refusing to process their magazine subscription payments after four years of business. The FCN are not the first business to get denied services for supposedly ...

We've seen some interesting and unique eBay auctions in our day, but this one is certainly the most bizarre. Ian Usher, a resident of Perth, Australia is auctioning off his entire life. Following a messy divorce, the 44 year-old decided it was time for a fresh start. The prospect of selling off his possessions one-by-one seemed too daunting, so Usher packed up all of his possessions into one ...

As more people switch to Mac and pick up iPhones, the Apple-built web browser Safari is becoming more and more popular. Though it still only makes up 4.5 percent of the web browser market, that is still a significant number of people who should take heed of PayPal's warning: Use another browser. The online payment company is strongly suggesting that users visit the site with a different browser, ...

The eBay-owned VOIP service Skype is sponsoring a weekly segment on Oprah.com called 'A New Earth,' in which the talk show legend and Eckhart Tolle will answer questions about Tolle's new book, 'A New Earth: Get Ready To Be Awakened.' The 10 weekly segments will be aired live online and will focus on a different chapter from the book each week. Those with Skype accounts, reasonably powerful PCs ...

If you're anything like the rest of the air breathing world you'd probably kick your grandmother in the teeth to get next to the sexy and former indie film 'It' girl Scarlett Johansson. Well you may have your chance, and there is no need to kick an elderly relative! Ms. Johansson is auctioning off two red carpet tickets to the premier of 'He's Just Not That Into You' and a "meet-and-greet" on ...

Auction site eBay has been suffering at the hands of an online protest over a change in how it charges sellers for listing and selling goods. The change has resulted in a substantial increase in costs for sellers. The changes lowered the initial fees for sellers to list items on eBay, but increased the commission charged on completed sales. Additionally, the feedback system was altered to ...

On eBay, a seller's reputation is just as visible as his or her name. With just a click, any potential bidder can check out how well transactions have gone with a particular auctioneer in the past and determine whether or not he or she wants to bid. The same goes for buyers right now, enabling that same auction host to turn around and check out the bidders fighting to set the right price. And, of ...

Remember when we told you that the government of Pennsylvania was telling any eBayers in the state who sold goods for others to get a license? Yeah, well, apparently they weren't kidding. A woman there opened a consignment shop on the online auction house so that she could stay home and treat her daughter with cancer. Now she faces a $10-million fine for doing so without an auctioneer's license. ...