Posted on 12 March 2010
eBay – The Scammers Paradise
eBay is full of scammers, especially the car and motorcycle section. Con Artists have cottoned on to the fact the eBay is awash with trusting people that are easy to take for a ride. Excuse the pun. If you have been to the eBay motors section lately you may notice that it has literally hundreds of sports cars and other relatively high value cars going for a quarter of what they are actually worth.
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Posted on 03 March 2010
Run an eBay Business From Your Own Home – A Guide for Teens
You’ve probably heard about other people making money selling on eBay. There’s no reason teens can’t do the same. This article is for teens who want to learn easy ways to make some spending money and will give you the tools and tell you how to do it.
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Posted on 01 March 2010
10 Tips for Increasing Your eBay Response.
So you’ve got the buyer in front of your auction, and they’ve read the description. They’re must be interested, or they wouldn’t be looking… but just how can you push them over that line and make them leave a bid? Read on for some tips.
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Posted on 01 March 2010
Latest Ebay Email Scam – Very Tricky
I received an email from ebay, asking me to do a simple survey for 20 dollars. Google had conducted similiar surveys and it is not surprising that ebay could do the same. The survey was very tempting because I had nothing to loose and I believed many people would think the same way like I did. The email was written professionally and there was nothing suspicious about the links. Like the paypal email scam that I wrote earlier, http://www.sitecritic.net/articleDetail.php?
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Posted on 25 February 2010
eBay: The First 10 Years.
Yes, you read that correctly: ten years. eBay was created in September 1995, by a man called Pierre Omidyar, who was living in San Jose. He wanted his site – then called ‘AuctionWeb’ – to be an online marketplace, and wrote the first code for it in one weekend. It was one of the first websites of its kind in the world. The name ‘eBay‘ comes from the domain Omidyar used for his site. His company’s name was Echo Bay, and the ‘eBay AuctionWeb’ was originally just one part of Echo Bay’s website at ebay.com. The first thing ever sold on the site was Omidyar’s broken laser pointer, which he got $14 for.
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