Here is the AuctionBytes online-auction news roundup for Friday, October 15, 2004.

Industry News & Trends

"A Message To Our Users - PayPal Site Issues Resolved" posted by Meg Whitman
eBay Announcement Board, 10/14/04
http://www2.ebay.com:80/aw/marketing.shtml#2004-10-14142423

"PayPal users still stranded as site glitch continues," by Todd Weiss
Computer Weekly, 10/14/04
http://digbig.com/4bydr

"Sellers Deal with Fallout from PayPal Outage," by David Hakala
The Channel Insider, 10/14/04
http://www.thechannelinsider.com/article2/0,1759,1676393,00.asp

"An SMB Add-On: Drop Shipping," by Christopher Saunders
Small Business Computing, 10/14/04
http://www.smallbusinesscomputing.com/biztools/article.php/3421691

Weird, Unusual, Celebrity or Charity Auctions

"More than 450 Mount St. Helens items for sale on Ebay," by Donna Gordon Blankinship (AP)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 10/14/04
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/aplocal_story.asp?category=6420&slug=WA%20Mount%20St.%20Helens%20eBay