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eBay points to changing car buying habits

Motorists are showing the current strain on their wallets on online car buying sites, according to eBayMotors.com.

eBay (EBAY) NewsBite - EBAY Covered In Lee Allen Report Today

eBay (EBAY) was covered in a Lee Allen Report today and the stock is now at $19.52, down $1.33 (-6.38%) on volume of 4,864,998 shares traded. To see the report, and read Lee's musings on the mortgage crisis, go to http://www.iotogo.com/la100208 . Over the last 52 weeks the stock has ranged from a low of $19.95 to a high of $40.73. eBay stock has been showing support around $19.80 and resistance in the $22.76 range. Technical indicators for the stock are bullish and S&P gives EBAY a positive 5 STARS (out of 5) strong buy ranking. If you are looking for a hedged play on EBAY the stock seems like it could be a candidate for an October out-of-the-money bear-call credit spread above the 22.50 range. [ABR-Seven Summits Strategic Investments NewsBite]

eBay points to changing buying habits

Motorists are showing the current strain on their wallets on online car buying sites, according to eBayMotors.com.

eBay Has To Turn Over Info On Canadian PowerSellers

Michael Geist points us to the news that a Canadian court has told eBay Canada that it needs to cough up info on Canadian PowerSellers. The case involves attempts by the Canadian government to determine if eBay PowerSellers are underreporting earnings on their taxes. Canadian tax officials had asked eBay Canada to hand over data on various Canadian PowerSellers, but the company refused, noting that the info was actually held by eBay in the US, and thus the data was not subject to the Canada Revenue Agency's jurisdiction. The court disagreed, noting that eBay Canada had easy access to the data at a "click of the mouse." For the most part, this does make sense, though it does raise some questions about jurisdictions. Perhaps this is a special case, due to the close relationship between eBay and eBay Canada, but it still is a bit worrisome t

Data Analysis More Difficult with New eBay Listing Format

eBay seller Doctor-Deals noticed a problem with eBay's third-party data analysis tool caused by the addition of eBay's new listing format. eBay, which recently stopped offering its own eBay Marketplace Research tool, refers users to a third-party service from Terapeak, an eBay Certified Provider. Terapeak's service allows sellers to determine average selling prices and best performing keywords and categories for their listings. But recent changes at eBay hamper users from getting timely data for fixed-price listings.

Head of eBay Stores and ProStores Leaves eBay

Eric Shoup, General Manager for the eBay Stores and ProStores business units at eBay, has joined the Generations Network (TGN) as vice president of product for the Ancestry.com business unit. Shoup had been at eBay for five years. Before heading eBay's stores units, Shoup had assembled and led eBay's first global mobile product team.

eBay Launches Pay-Per-Click Advertising Program for Sellers

eBay sellers who want to draw more attention to their listings can advertise on eBay through a new program called eBay AdCommerce. The pay-per-click ad program, similar to Google AdWords or Yahoo Search Marketing, allows eBay sellers to advertise their listings and eBay Stores on eBay search results pages via a customized text ad. Sellers decide how much they are willing to pay each time a buyer clicks their ad after running a search for certain keywords. The ad includes a title, short description, and an optional image, which appears at the bottom of search results pages.

eBay Moves to Stop Sales of Free Inauguration Tickets

eBay moves to stop sales of “free� inauguration tickets. Under pressure from the feds, eBay moved Thursday to shutdown ticket sales to Barack Obama’s swearing-in ceremony. The tickets, which are supposed to be free, won’t actually be dolled out until a few days before the event. However, ticket sales for the event were booming on eBay. Caving in to pressure from the Federal Inaugural Committee, eBay Inc. on Thursday removed tickets to the Jan. 20 swearing-in ceremony. eBay’s StubHub subsidiary, which  as of Wednesday had tickets to the ceremony listed from a low of $1,950 to a high of $7,500, also removed the items, reports The Washington Post.  Nichola Sharpe, eBay spokeswoman, said the main issues discussed at the meeting in Washington were “the distribution method and the monetary value� of the tickets, but she wo

Gran Turismo 5 Prologue Spawns Real-Life Car

Car Analogy Please writes to tell us that a new car unveiled at the Paris Auto Show was modeled after the Gran Turismo 5 Prologue car. GTbyCITROËN is the first car that has been designed in tandem with a video game to then spill out onto the actual pavement. "The GTbyCITROËN is the product of a partnership built up during the creation of Gran Turismo 5 Prologue. Takumi Yamamoto, from Citroen and Kazunori Yamauchi from Polyphony Digital Inc, the games developer were inspired by each others industries to design a concept car for the game that then flowed further into the real-world. The game version of the car mirrors the real-world performance of the concept."

NEWS Nintendo Points are Not Interc...

Nintendo Points, formerly known as Wii Points, will not be as versatile as once thought. While the points are compatible with both the Wii and DSi, it is not possible to transfer points between the systems. For example a person registering a 3000 Nintendo Points card on their DSi will not have access to those points on their Wii.

Undisclosed obsession of eBay Auction by BR SANKHLA

Undisclosed obsession of eBay Auction by BR SANKHLA - If your eBay auction is for selling to businesses, then you need to figure out the business hours for all your targeted companies in your niche. A good reputation at eBay auction is value its weight in gold, whoever was given a powerfully positive consideration by their customers at previous auctions on average achieves noticeably higher returns. eBay auction is a worldwide trading platform where over 147 million 72 million US registered individuals, small businesses and enterprises, buy and sell millions of items, in thousands of categories, from collectibles like trading cards, antiques, dolls, and house wares to practical items like used car. Serial Number Following the eBay auction is the serial number of the watch if applicable and or available.

Yahoo Adds eBay Anywhere to Home Page

Yahoo added a new application that allows users to add the eBay Anywhere application to their customized home pages. Yahoo said the inclusion of the eBay app demonstrates how its opening its homepage to third-parties to make users' life simpler. The eBay widget will let users quickly monitor their eBay buying and selling activities, including checking recent bids or getting reminders about auctions that are about to close. They can also as search for and find new eBay items right from within Yahoo.com.

Car impounded after dog drives away from car wash

A dog waiting in a car while at a car wash slipped the vehicle into gear and drove in a loop before the car came to a stop. Pryor police officer Brent Crittenden said the dog's owner was washing the vehicle when the 70-pound pit bull jumped on the dash and somehow shifted the car into reverse.

Car impounded after dog drives away from car wash

PRYOR, Okla. -- A dog waiting in a car while at a car wash slipped the vehicle into gear and drove in a loop before the car came to a stop. Pryor police officer Brent Crittenden said the dog's owner was washing the vehicle when the 70-pound pit bull jumped on the dash and somehow shifted the car into reverse.

eBay UK Tests Donation Box on Checkout

eBay is testing a new option in eBay Checkout on eBay.co.uk that will enable buyers to make a donation ("Give a Pound") to a featured charity when they're buying. The feature only works with PayPal payments. Donations are collected and delivered by MissionFish, eBay's registered charity partner. The £1 donation will appear as separate transactions paid to MissionFish in buyer's PayPal accounts.

eBay Execs Move on to Founder's VC Firm, Omidyar Network

eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, who runs a non-profit foundation and a venture capital firm, routinely picks up eBay executives to join his companies, and this week, he picked up a few more. The Omidyar Network said eBay's Vice President of Global Trust and Safety Matt Halprin, who had already joined Omidyar Network earlier this year, is joining the company's senior leadership team. eBay's Vice President of Human Resources and Administration Sal Giambanco will begin work with Omidyar Network in January 2009. eBay Senior Director in Global Trust & Safety Sophie Bromberg joins Omidyar Network as Director, Investments.

eBay Opens Keyword Ad Program to Sellers

eBay will allow sellers to advertise on its website in a new keyword ad program that will compete with its program for Shopping.com listings and Yahoo Ads. eBay AdCommerce is a pay-per-click system that allows eBay sellers to advertise their listings and eBay Stores via a text ad on eBay search result pages. The system works like other ad networks, with advertisers bidding on keywords.

eBay Hides Winning Bidder Information

eBay has decided to block members from seeing winning bidder IDs in an effort to combat fraud. Sellers will still be able to view all bidder IDs on their own listings, and feedback pages will continue to show buyer and seller IDS. eBay's announcement stated, "This change was designed to protect bidders from fake Second Chance Offers and other malicious emails." eBay began its bidder-anonymizing program 2 years ago in the eBay Motors category for bids that exceeded $200 and expanded it over the past 2 years. eBay members have complained that the system makes it easier for disreputable sellers to shill bid on their own auctions to drive prices higher.

eBay's AdCommerce: A Repackaged Keywords on eBay?

eBay (EBAY) announced this morning that they were “introducing a new program called eBay AdCommerce.�

Book Review: eBay Business At Your Fingertips

On the surface, the eBay business situation looks grim. In early October eBay laid off 1,600 employees, about 10 percent of its work force. Listings have grown at the slowest rate on the site since 1998, eBay Stores have dropped a reported 46 percent and recent reports note that Amazon fixed-price listings are gaining traction on eBay's market share. Does all this spell an impending sunset on eBay's virtual marketplace and the estimated 1.3 million sellers who make a full- or part-time living on the site?

Off-eBay Volume Tops Auction Payments for the First Time at PayPal

(October 15, 2008) After months of steady gains, the merchant-services portion of PayPal Inc.’s transaction volume topped the volume coming from eBay Inc auctions for the first time in the third quarter, eBay reported on Wednesday. In line with this result, the online auctioneer also reported PayPal has been adopted by 35 of the 100 largest online merchants. Altogether, more than 1 million merchants now use PayPal, eBay chief executive John Donahoe said in an earnings call with analysts. But Donahoe and Bob Swan, eBay’s chief financial officer, assumed a somber tone during the call regarding the slumping economy and its impact on eBay businesses, including PayPal.

Layoffs Possibility Notwithstanding, eBay Wants To Buy Classified Startups

Rumors are floating around that eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) is going to lay off about 10 percent of its 15,000 employees, attributable mainly to an analyst at Wedge Partners, a small Colorado investment-research firm. And while the company has refused to comment on it, it makes sense that eBay will do some rationalization of its business considering its declining profits and stagnant traffic. Despite that, the company is interested in making some more acquisitions in the online classifieds space, according to Jacob Aqraou, GM of eBay’s global classified business. He told WSJ that the company will take over a “fair� number of companies in the next six months or so. With the market being what it is, and the valuations coming down, the company is looking at sites that have leading positions in geographies and industry segments in which eBay does

Payments Changes at eBay Go Well Beyond Tossing out Checks

(September 16, 2008) When eBay Inc. announced its all-electronic payments policy last month, the move triggered what an eBay executive calls a “mixed� response, at best, from the online marketplace’s sprawling seller community. But the policy changes go beyond banning checks and money orders on eBay. They include requirements that will force third-party payments vendors, as well as sellers with merchant accounts, to integrate their payment systems with eBay’s checkout process. And they have vaulted an 11-year-old processor in Orem, Utah, into prominence as the first provider other than eBay’s PayPal unit to provide integrated electronic processing.

What is 'NWOT'? 'NWT'? What eBay Jargon Do I Need to Learn?

As you perhaps know, eBay is a part of daily internet life. Every 24 hours, eBay transacts over $65 million dollars in goods for 200 million registered users. Most everything trades hands through this online flea market -- digital cameras, car parts, collectible toys, vinyl records, electronics and more. If you happen to be confused by fundamental expressions like "New With Tags" or "New Without Tags", then read the eBay Beginner's Handbook here, and we'll help you with your first eBay steps. (photo by John Chapple / Getty Images)

GameStop wins in traffic growth, while eBay slips yet again, Nielsen says

Last month, GameStop grew and eBay shrank, according to Nielsen Online, at least in terms of unique visitors to computers and consumer electronics shopping destinations. GameStop’s number of unique visitors grew at a healthy 57% while traffic for two eBay sites in the category fell by about 20% compared to a year earlier. July was a similar story for eBay as the same two sites, eBay computers and eBay electronics, experienced traffic declines of more than 20% from the same time last year.

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