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Scalpers Ask Up To $750 For Free Bon Jovi Concert
Bon Jovi's concert in Central Park this Saturday is free. But that isn't stopping some scalpers from selling tickets for as much as $1,500 a pair -- despite a warning they cannot be resold. The New York Post reports it found 267 listings on eBay on Monday for the sold-out concert. The prices ranged from 99 cents to $1,500 a pair.
wcbstv.com – Jul 8, 2008 3:45 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Local: New York: New York
Bon Jovi's concert in Central Park this Saturday is free. But that isn't stopping some scalpers from selling tickets for as much as $1,500 a pair -- despite a warning they cannot be resold. The New York Post reports it found 267 listings on eBay on Monday for the sold-out concert. The prices ranged from 99 cents to $1,500 a pair.
wcbstv.com – Jul 8, 2008 3:45 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Local: New York: New York
EBay sellers promise expired FastPasses are key to shorter Disney park lines
Pssst! Wanna buy some old FastPass tickets that will supposedly get you around the long lines at Walt Disney World's most popular attractions?
OrlandoSentinel.com – Jul 8, 2008 04:00 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Local: Florida: Orlando
Pssst! Wanna buy some old FastPass tickets that will supposedly get you around the long lines at Walt Disney World's most popular attractions?
OrlandoSentinel.com – Jul 8, 2008 04:00 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Local: Florida: Orlando
Austin woman sells soul on eBay
Read full story for latest details.
KVUE.com – Jul 7, 2008 10:40 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Local: Texas: Austin
Read full story for latest details.
KVUE.com – Jul 7, 2008 10:40 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Local: Texas: Austin
OVRTA To Sell Buses On eBay
The Ohio Valley Regional Transit Authority is turning to an internet auction site to sell older buses.
WTOV9.com – Jul 7, 2008 10:06 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Local: West Virginia: Wheeling
The Ohio Valley Regional Transit Authority is turning to an internet auction site to sell older buses.
WTOV9.com – Jul 7, 2008 10:06 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Local: West Virginia: Wheeling
30 Days 30 Ways To Save: Hot sellers on eBayWhen it comes to eBay, people can see or buy just about anything.
WKYC.com – Jul 7, 2008 6:32 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Local: Ohio: Cleveland
Student auctions vote on eBay; arrested
A 19-year-old student at the University of Minnesota is facing felony charges after trying to sell his vote in the Presidential election on eBay.
WCBD.com – Jul 7, 2008 3:35 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Local: South Carolina: Charleston
A 19-year-old student at the University of Minnesota is facing felony charges after trying to sell his vote in the Presidential election on eBay.
WCBD.com – Jul 7, 2008 3:35 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Local: South Carolina: Charleston
Google's Long Reach Muddles Board Room PictureNews from Portfolio.comAlso on PortfolioBallmer and Icahn, B.F.F.'sTop Coder Lands a Top JobHeroes and Zeros in Corporate AmericaSubscribe to Portfolio magazineLast month, Google C.E.O. Eric Schmidt, who sits on Apple's board of directors, revealed that he's been compelled to leave Apple board meetings on more than one occasion because Google's mobile-device platform, Android, poses a direct challenge to Apple's iPhone. If Google were to adopt a similar practice of asking its directors with conflicts of interest to step outside, its board meetings might start getting pretty small. The first to get the heave-ho would be John Doerr, who finds himself on the other side of the Android-iPhone fault line: In March, Doerr launched the $100 million iFund to invest in companies writing applications for the iPhone. If Google's board went on to discuss App Engine, Google's cloud computing initiative, Doerr would again have to excuse himself since he sits on the board of Amazon, whose fast-growing Web-services business competes directly with App Engine.Should the conversation turn to Google's vigorous efforts to optimize its services for the iPhone, Doerr could return to the meeting. But if talk veered toward Google's plans to acquire wireless spectrum, John Hennessy, who sits on Cisco's board, might have to recuse himself, since Cisco has scrapped publicly with Google over who deserves to get the biggest slice of the new wireless broadband spectrum being auctioned off by the Federal Communications Commission.Google's venture-capital investments? Sergey Brin should take a walk—after all, his new bride, Ann Wojcicki, is a founder of bio-info startup 23andMe. After Brin returns, perhaps the board would like to address tactics in the pitched battle between Google's Checkout payment service and eBay's PayPal. Might director Ann Mather, who served as a board member for Shopping.com before eBay acquired it for $634 million in 2005, care to head to the cafeteria for a coffee?Of course, Google isn't deliberately stacking its board with representatives from its competitors. It's just that, as anyone whose business Google has targeted with its ever-expanding arsenal of services knows, there's no escaping the Googleplex. One suggestion: Rather than asking its directors to run hither and thither, Google could have its engineers build a boardroom version of the Cone of Silence from this summer's film version of Get Smart.
Wired News – Jul 7, 2008 3:10 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Technology
French ruling on counterfeit goods could have far-reaching effects for eBay
If it is upheld, a French court ruling that fined eBay $61 million for allowing the sale of counterfeit goods could have a significant effect on how the company runs its business in the future, legal analysts said.
Computerworld.com – Jul 7, 2008 04:21 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Business: Retail
If it is upheld, a French court ruling that fined eBay $61 million for allowing the sale of counterfeit goods could have a significant effect on how the company runs its business in the future, legal analysts said.
Computerworld.com – Jul 7, 2008 04:21 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Business: Retail
A handbag? eBay is going to have to be more earnest
A French court last week ordered eBay to pay €38.8m (£30.6m) in damages to the luxury products group LVMH for letting fake versions of its designer bags be sold on the online auction site. The case was brought on two separate grounds - that eBay's measures to stop counterfeit goods being sold in 2006 were inadequate and it allowed genuine, but unauthorised, sales of certain perfume brands. The court awarded damages of €16.4m to Louis Vuitton, €19.28m to Christian Dior and €3.2m to the perfume brands. It rejected eBay's claim that it was just a host of millions of auctions and individual traders were responsible for the legality of their lots. EBay is to appeal and accuses LVMH of using the issue of fakes to crack down more generally on online sales, but the legal climate in which eBay operates is becoming more hostile. So is the media environment. Last week, BBC2's Newsnight exposed the burgeoning trade on eBay in Marks & Spencer credit notes, which can only be plausibly explained by the hypothesis that these are based on the exchange of shop-lifted goods. In America, eBay has been sued by Tiffany, the iconic jeweller, on the grounds that the site has aided violations of its trademarks by allowing counterfeit items to be sold in its auctions. Tiffany claims that 95 per cent of all the items sold on eBay under the Tiffany trademark are fakes and that the site's measures for policing this trade are inadequate. Regardless of what happens on appeal, these lawsuits, and others like them, are bad news for eBay. It now seems likely that at least some of the jurisdictions in which the company operates will insist that it becomes much more rigorous in policing activity on its site. And that spells trouble for the company's business model because policing is expensive, and eBay relies on skimming modest fees from billions of transactions run entirely by software with no human intervention. The key to its success is scale - it has 84 million active users, handles more than 500 million auctions every quarter and last year the total value of everything sold on its sites approached $60bn. Policing is a labour-intensive business, so eBay's profitability would be drastically impaired if it were compelled to do it on any realistic scale. The majority of auctions are legitimate, but it's clear that there are a lot of scammers on the site, and they don't just focus on Louis Vuitton luggage or M&S credit notes. Recently I bought an excellent Apple notebook on eBay, bringing gasps of astonishment from my techie friends, most of whom seem convinced that laptops plus eBay now equals fraud. In fact I had originally been outbid in the auction for my laptop, and only got it because the seller contacted me afterwards to say that the 'winning' bidder had defaulted. EBay is one of the Big Three internet companies founded in the mid-1990s, the others being Amazon and Yahoo. It was the only one profitable from day one and its meteoric rise created a marketplace in which anyone could sell just about anything. But along the way it ran out of ideas about what to do after it became 'the' online auction site. Its only significant internal innovation was the 'Buy It Now' system, which effectively transforms the site into a standard e-commerce operation for small operators. Otherwise, it has aped Microsoft in 'innovating' by acquiring other companies. First it bought PayPal, which made sense because it enabled financial transactions between buyers and sellers to be relatively painless and reasonably secure. But then it bought Skype, the internet telephony outfit, at a colossally inflated price and without any clear strategic rationale. It is instructive to look at how the Big Three have fared in their first decade. Only Amazon is really thriving. Why? First, it continues to provide impressive customer service: if you have a problem with an Amazon purchase, you can reach a human being in a reasonable time. Second, it has continued spinning off innovative new businesses from its core. Witness how it has diversified by opening up its marketplace to a host of other sellers (and taking a cut off every transaction). More important, it has built an amazing new business by renting out access to its servers at reasonable rates. In the old days, you had to spend a fortune on kit to start an internet business. No longer: Web 2.0 is a pay-as-you-go operation, courtesy of Jeff Bezos. john.naughton@observer.co.uk
The Guardian – Jul 5, 2008 11:04 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Technology
A French court last week ordered eBay to pay €38.8m (£30.6m) in damages to the luxury products group LVMH for letting fake versions of its designer bags be sold on the online auction site. The case was brought on two separate grounds - that eBay's measures to stop counterfeit goods being sold in 2006 were inadequate and it allowed genuine, but unauthorised, sales of certain perfume brands. The court awarded damages of €16.4m to Louis Vuitton, €19.28m to Christian Dior and €3.2m to the perfume brands. It rejected eBay's claim that it was just a host of millions of auctions and individual traders were responsible for the legality of their lots. EBay is to appeal and accuses LVMH of using the issue of fakes to crack down more generally on online sales, but the legal climate in which eBay operates is becoming more hostile. So is the media environment. Last week, BBC2's Newsnight exposed the burgeoning trade on eBay in Marks & Spencer credit notes, which can only be plausibly explained by the hypothesis that these are based on the exchange of shop-lifted goods. In America, eBay has been sued by Tiffany, the iconic jeweller, on the grounds that the site has aided violations of its trademarks by allowing counterfeit items to be sold in its auctions. Tiffany claims that 95 per cent of all the items sold on eBay under the Tiffany trademark are fakes and that the site's measures for policing this trade are inadequate. Regardless of what happens on appeal, these lawsuits, and others like them, are bad news for eBay. It now seems likely that at least some of the jurisdictions in which the company operates will insist that it becomes much more rigorous in policing activity on its site. And that spells trouble for the company's business model because policing is expensive, and eBay relies on skimming modest fees from billions of transactions run entirely by software with no human intervention. The key to its success is scale - it has 84 million active users, handles more than 500 million auctions every quarter and last year the total value of everything sold on its sites approached $60bn. Policing is a labour-intensive business, so eBay's profitability would be drastically impaired if it were compelled to do it on any realistic scale. The majority of auctions are legitimate, but it's clear that there are a lot of scammers on the site, and they don't just focus on Louis Vuitton luggage or M&S credit notes. Recently I bought an excellent Apple notebook on eBay, bringing gasps of astonishment from my techie friends, most of whom seem convinced that laptops plus eBay now equals fraud. In fact I had originally been outbid in the auction for my laptop, and only got it because the seller contacted me afterwards to say that the 'winning' bidder had defaulted. EBay is one of the Big Three internet companies founded in the mid-1990s, the others being Amazon and Yahoo. It was the only one profitable from day one and its meteoric rise created a marketplace in which anyone could sell just about anything. But along the way it ran out of ideas about what to do after it became 'the' online auction site. Its only significant internal innovation was the 'Buy It Now' system, which effectively transforms the site into a standard e-commerce operation for small operators. Otherwise, it has aped Microsoft in 'innovating' by acquiring other companies. First it bought PayPal, which made sense because it enabled financial transactions between buyers and sellers to be relatively painless and reasonably secure. But then it bought Skype, the internet telephony outfit, at a colossally inflated price and without any clear strategic rationale. It is instructive to look at how the Big Three have fared in their first decade. Only Amazon is really thriving. Why? First, it continues to provide impressive customer service: if you have a problem with an Amazon purchase, you can reach a human being in a reasonable time. Second, it has continued spinning off innovative new businesses from its core. Witness how it has diversified by opening up its marketplace to a host of other sellers (and taking a cut off every transaction). More important, it has built an amazing new business by renting out access to its servers at reasonable rates. In the old days, you had to spend a fortune on kit to start an internet business. No longer: Web 2.0 is a pay-as-you-go operation, courtesy of Jeff Bezos. john.naughton@observer.co.uk
The Guardian – Jul 5, 2008 11:04 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Technology
Teen charged with felony for offering vote on eBay
MINNEAPOLIS -- A University of Minnesota student claimed it was all a joke when he put his vote in this fall's presidential election up for sale on the Web auction site eBay. But prosecutors didn't see the humor in the stunt. Max P.
PostBulletin.com – Jul 5, 2008 04:55 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Local: Minnesota: Rochester-Mason City-Austin
MINNEAPOLIS -- A University of Minnesota student claimed it was all a joke when he put his vote in this fall's presidential election up for sale on the Web auction site eBay. But prosecutors didn't see the humor in the stunt. Max P.
PostBulletin.com – Jul 5, 2008 04:55 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
found in Local: Minnesota: Rochester-Mason City-Austin