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EBay Seller Offering Unsanctioned Mac Computer

Another entrepreneur is trying their hand at selling unsanctioned Mac OS X desktops. AppleInsider spotted an eBay listing for a generic desktop tower running Mac OS X Leopard, weeks after Psystar made a very public show of defying Apple's licensing agreement for Leopard with its Open Computer.

Seller Offers His Own Mac Clone on eBay

Looks like Psystar has some competition -- or at least did. Earlier on Tuesday, an eBay seller by the name of "chris555" started offering two "Non Apple Mac OS X" clone systems for $549 a piece. The listing has since been removed and it's unclear whether the seller managed to find a buyer(s) or simply got cold feet. A brief seller's history reveals that Chris555 has also dabbled in selling items like Hollister SoCal 2.5 oz Men's Cologne (new in box), some Pioneer car speakers and a mirror for a Pontiac Grand AM. In other words, he's not exactly a seasoned computer vendor.

Anticipation Builds for Seventh Annual eBay Live! Conference

SAN JOSE, Calif.-- (BUSINESS WIRE) -- eBay Inc. (Nasdaq:EBAY) (www.ebay.com) today announced that as anticipation builds for the seventh eBay Live Community conference, the last such event until 2010, registration is rapidly filling up. Held this year in Chicago, June 19-21, at McCormick Place West convention center, eBay bills the event as an unrivaled opportunity for eBay sellers from around the world to network with fellow eBay Community members, meet tradeshow exhibitors, and attend educational sessions to learn about best practices for buying and selling on eBay. The event sold out last year, so interested parties are encouraged to sign up via: http://pages.ebay.com/ebaylive.

Anticipation Builds for Seventh Annual eBay Live! Conference

SAN JOSE, Calif. --(Business Wire)-- eBay Inc. (Nasdaq:EBAY) (www.ebay.com) today announced that as anticipation builds for the seventh eBay Live Community conference, the last such event until 2010, registration is rapidly filling up. Held this year in Chicago, June 19-21, at McCormick Place West convention center, eBay bills the event as an unrivaled opportunity for eBay sellers from around the world to network with fellow eBay Community members, meet tradeshow exhibitors, and attend educational sessions to learn about best practices for buying and selling on eBay. The event sold out last year, so interested parties are encouraged to sign up via: http://pages.ebay.com/ebaylive.

Craigslist's Response To eBay: We Had To Do It!

After eBay sued Craigslist, Craigslist's initial responses were rather weak. eBay made a pretty strong case arguing that Craigslist's board had unilaterally diluted eBay's shares -- which seems pretty questionable. Craigslist initially shot back by accusing eBay of doing the same things eBay was accusing Craigslist of doing -- but that was somewhat misleading. eBay wasn't complaining about the specific actions Craigslist was taking -- but the fact that they had done so unilaterally, despite eBay's ownership stake and board position. Then, Craigslist countersued eBay with a laundry list of charges that effectively amounted to "we don't like them being on our board." Both of these responses were a bit disappointing. While I like Craigslist, and respect Craig and Jim, they still hadn't explained why it was legal for them to unilaterally dilu

Seller Circle Adds 'Social Commerce Search' for eBay Sellers

Seller Circle, a new site for eBay sellers that combines merchandising tools with social networking, has added a new "social commerce search" feature to its website. Buyers can search a seller's listings on their Seller Circle page. And, in an interesting twist, if the seller does not have any matching listings, their Seller Circle friends' listings are displayed.

EBay Abandons Plans For PayPal Monopoly

An anonymous reader writes "eBay's has lost its fight to ban all payment methods except PayPal. When Paypal originally announced the scheme it was to be global, but they began with a dry run in Australia to test the reaction of government and consumer authorities. In the public slanging match that followed between eBay and the regulatory ACCC, eBay spammed users claiming it was fighting for 'safety benefits for consumers.' Fortunately the consumers won. Conceded eBay vice president Simon Smith, 'While we disagree with the ACCC's draft notice, we have decided to withdraw the notification to stop any further confusion and disruption among the eBay community.' Nevertheless eBay insists PayPal is now always offered as a payment option. Have big corporations finally learned that they can go too far? More chillingly, if eBay had launched the sc

New Perks for eBay Sellers Help Boost Traffic and Listing Exposure

Grover Beach, CA June 24, 2008 -- eBay sellers now have a new online sales tool to increase the reach of their product listings, with the introduction of the Slideshow Widget by ClassifiedFlyerAds.com. Developed in response to a customer’s request, this widget comes in two styles – vertical or horizontal – for fitted placement on any blog or website, and seven color choices. The slideshow widget automatically transitions through all of the eBay seller’s listings at a speed set by the viewer. With links to the seller’s listings, profile, and eBay store (if applicable), this new tool directs visitors to the eBay seller’s listings for purchase. ClassifiedFlyerAds.com members can submit the widget embed code to as many websites or blogs as they wish, as well as provide it to friends or partners for placement on other sites, having the potenti

Google Gets Serious About Open Source Mac Projects

mjasay sends us a link to a CNet story, which begins: "In the '20 percent time' that Google employees have to work on projects of personal interest, it turns out that an increasing number are spending time writing open-source projects for their Macs. Google has long had a fondness for the Mac, with upwards of 6,000 of its 20,000 current employees opting to use the Mac over Windows. It is in the 20 percent employee development time, however, where this statistic becomes interesting. At Google, development time translates into products. The more Mac-friendly employees, the more Mac-related development. The more Mac-related development, the more Google-sponsored Mac-based open-source code. As Google's Mac Developer Playground demonstrates, some of this code is quite interesting.

Competing With Keywords Increases Your Ebay Sales!

Ebay is the largest and most popular online marketplace on earth! And with this, it is only obvious that ebay is highly competitive, for both the Ebay buyers as well as for Ebay sellers. With millions of entries in the eBay store, it is necessary to use appropriate keywords to manage the store. A keyword is nothing but a significant word in the title or description of an item. Therefore, keywords used in the listing needs to be directly relevant to the items being sold. The right keywords will result in your item being pulled up more often by ebay search, the wrong keyword would result in your item being virtually invisible!

eBay v. Craigslist: a tale of secret meetings, "obsessions"

Execs at Craigslist felt threatened by eBay and made calculated moves to reduce eBay's equity and decision-making powers in the company, according to eBay's newly-unsealed lawsuit (PDF). eBay says that Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster and founder Craig Newmark "breached their fiduciary duties of care, loyalty, and good faith by implementing certain self-dealing transactions... which were designed specifically to benefit themselves to the detriment of eBay." eBay is asking that the courts rescind or declare void the decisions made by Buckmaster and Newmark, and seeks recissory damages, attorney's fees, and other costs involved in filing the suit.

Los Angeles, Orange County Among Top 10 eBay Markets

Online auction site eBay released their list of the most active markets for the site Thursday, reporting that both Los Angeles-Long Beach and Orange County were among the top 10 markets for the firm. According to eBay, the Los Angeles-Long Beach area ranked number one in the U.S. for eBay sales, selling $1.3 billion dollars in items on the site last year; Orange County ranked sixth in the nation for eBay sales, with over $636M in sales for last year. Other top markets for eBay sales were New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas, Washington D.C., Houston, Nassau-Suffolk, New York, and Fort Lauderdale, Florida. eBay reported that Los Angeles residents sold 24,051,645 items worth $1,396,037,518 last year, and Orange County residents sold 6,945,490 items worth $636,654,084.

eBay Seller John Thornhill (planetsms) An Interview

John Thornhill, perhaps more commonly referred to as eBay seller 'planetsms', kindly agreed to answer a few questions for me to share with my members. We discussed the viral nature of eBay and used John's book "The 90 Day Power seller Challenge" as a case study.

eBay Inc. (EBAY) sees heavy option activity in the midst of a broader-market pullback

The entire tech sector is dropping into the red this afternoon, pulled lower by broad-market weakness. One of the largest losers in the group this afternoon is online auctioneer eBay Inc. (EBAY: View sentiment for EBAYsentiment, chart, options) . However, this isn't a good enough reason for the drop – at least not in my eyes – so I went digging about to find some sort of news for the auction giant. One story I found was that PayPal's Pay Later credit service is now available for EBAY purchasers. As of yesterday, EBAY purchasers in the U.S. can take advantage of Pay Later's financing offer of no payments for 90 days for qualifying purchases between $50 and $199. While this is great news for me and my quest for an authentic 70's-era Bengals jersey (anyone have any leads for me?), I don't see this news as the reason the shares have dropped n

Top Australian Seller NARU, Reacts to eBay Feedback Changes

The account of one of the largest sellers of DVDs on eBay Australia and UK has been suspended, or NARU as it's known on the auction site. Phil Leahy, who also heads an organization of eBay sellers, said he stopped trading on eBay about a month ago in order to revamp his operations, and is NARU for not yet having paid his eBay bill.

Apple patent lets you transfer user account from computer to computer

imageYou may soon be able to transfer your user account from computer to computer, according to an Apple patent (number 737824) filed at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. The invention relates generally to multi-user computer systems and, more particularly, user account management for multi-user computer systems.

eBay Roadmap Creates Fast Lane for Large Sellers

eBay's Product Roadmap reveals eBay's intention to make it easier for large merchants to conduct business on the site. At its recent Developer's Conference in Chicago, eBay announced its Web Services would provide better API and business process support for large sellers. Merchants will be able to manage their entire business without going to My eBay and will be able to organize information by SKU instead of ItemID. eBay also promised faster processing and fewer timeouts with asynchronous bulk interface.

eBay UK Makes Gallery Free for the Summer

eBay UK told users they could use the optional Gallery feature for free in a special summer-time promotion. From May 19 through September 30, the gallery picture listing upgrade on eBay.co.uk and eBay.ie will be free. (eBay made Gallery free for sellers on the US eBay.com website earlier this year.) All other fees apply, see website for details and restrictions.

eBay Motors Experiencing Slump in Auto Demand

There is no doubt EBAY Motors has been an incredible success story for EBAY. In 2007, EBAY Motors GMV totalled $17.5B, representing an astounding 29.6% of EBAY's overall GMV. This makes EBAY Motors roughly 3x the size of the next largest category by GMV, Consumer Electronics.

eBay Announces Star Developer Awards

A tool for accessing eBay on a Nintendo wii gaming system has won eBay's developer award for "Most Innovative Application." The Jaast for Wii from a Germany developer was one of seven applications winning eBay and PayPal developer awards today. eBay announced the awards during its Developers Conference taking place in Chicago this week, immediately preceding its annual eBay Live conference.

Big News Expected at Today's eBay Developers Conference

eBay is kicking off its 3-day Developer's Conference on Monday for eBay, PayPal, Skype, Shopping.com and ProStores. eBay DevCon speakers will be addressing the importance of open platforms in improving user experiences, boosting customer loyalty and engagement, and helping entrepreneurial developers monetize their applications by taking advantage of leading ecommerce API platforms on the Web. eBay will reveal its hush-hush "Project Echo" for the eBay platform today during the keynote address that kicks off at 9:30 am Central time.

Canada Post introduces Flat Rate Box for eBay users

eBay and Canada Post co-branded Flat Rate Box will simplify selling and shipping for eBay sellers TORONTO (CNW) - Canada Post and eBay Canada today announced the launch of a Flat Rate Box for eBay sellers in response to growing demand for a simple, convenient and environmentally sound shipping solution for items bought and sold on eBay.ca.

Ebay Fined $61M By French Court For Sales of Fake Goods

A court in France ordered eBay to pay more than 61 mega-dollars to the parent company (LVMH) of Givenchy, Fendi, Marc Jacobs and Louis Vuitton, because a user sold fake goods on the website. eBay has been sued by other 'luxury goods' vendors (such as Tiffany's (US), Rolex (Germany) and L'Oreal (EU)). Problems stem from some companies demanding that their merchandise (even legal merchandise) not be displayed nor sold as it is a violation of their 'property.' Others have complained that eBay is too slow to take down claims. Apparently eBay was hit with two violations: 1) eBay illegally allowed legitimately purchased and owned products made by LVMH to be resold on its website by 3rd parties not under the control of LVMH, and 2) not doing enough to protect LVMH's brands from illegal sales.

eBay Pulls The Plug On Cable TV, Radio Ad Exchange

After struggling for more than a year to attract advertisers, cable TV networks and radio stations to its Online Media Exchange, eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) has decided to close it down, Adweek reports. The exchange struggled from the start. A month after the March ‘07 beta release, the Cabletelevision Advertising Bureau pulled out of a test of eBay’s system. CAB initially complained that its members hadn’t been fully briefed; it then said it would have nothing to do with eBay’s further trials, saying that the system was too narrow an application and was basically ineffective. Sean Cunningham, president and CEO of the CAB, told NYT at the time: “We don’t believe that eBay is going to get this right.â€�

eBay Culling the Herd?

The "buzz" this week is that on line auctions are falling to the wayside in favor of fixed priced venues. Is it possible that the CEO of eBay (EBAY) has access to a crystal ball (or medium), which told him that the future of on line auctions is not in eBay's future? Or, is all this "buzz" the result of eBay sellers simply being maneuvered to leave eBay on their own accord and/or adapt to a 100% fixed price format?

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