Fourteen per cent of adult Britons who use the internet made their most recent online purchase from an auction site according to a survey by Apacs, the UK payments association. I bet I know which auction site … which is why I’m not surprised when fees for buyers and sellers keep rising. Problem is, there […]
Entries from August 2006
Britons flock to online auction sales
August 2nd, 2006 · No Comments
Tags: Internet · eBay · Auctions
eBay robots - the latest weapons in scammer wars
August 1st, 2006 · No Comments
eBay scam latest: I learned something new today - eBay power sellers use bots (web robots) to post hundreds of sales offering “Buy it Now” stuff such as e-books, digital photos and Windows wallpaper for a penny (or a cent). It’s all delivered digitally, but automating the process is the only way the sellers can […]
Tags: Internet · eBay · Auctions
Pop diva Cher to mount Sotheby’s sale of cast-offs
August 1st, 2006 · No Comments
The highest bidder gets to sleep in Cher’s bed – though the Academy Award-winning actress, singer songwriter and half of the pop duo Sonny & Cher – will have taken the money and ran. She’s signed up with Sotheby’s to sell the contents of her Malibu home in California.
Around 700 lots of furniture, works of […]
Tags: Sotheby's
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