Here is the AuctionBytes online-auction news roundup for Thursday, November 25, 2004. Happy Thanksgiving!
Industry News & Trends
"Spanish eBayers in open revolt," By Lester Haines, The Register, 11/23/04
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/23/ebay_spain_strike/
"Ebay faces global customer revolt," By Rhys Blakely, Times Online, 11/23/04
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9075-1371759,00.html
"EBay Sellers Do the Holiday Sprint," by Lisa Guernsey, New York Times, 11/25/04
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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/25/technology/circuits/25powe.html?oref=login
"The eBay Way," By Michelle Conlin with Rob Hof, BusinessWeek, 11/29/04
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_48/b3910407.htm
and Interview:
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_48/b3910415.htm
"PayPal: No plan yet to offer service in RP," by By Joey Alarilla, INQ7.net, 11/23/04
http://news.inq7.net/infotech/index.php?index=1&story_id=19047
"Web auction company realizes family dream: The new head of i-DealAuctions has taken on his late brother's eBay consignment idea," By Gary Anglebrandt, The Detroit News, 11/23/04
http://www.detnews.com/2004/business/0411/23/C02-13532.htm
"How to Manage Growth," By Erick Schonfeld, Business 2.0, 11/10/04
http://www.business2.com/b2/web/articles/0,17863,767260,00.html
"UPS strike in Canada is settled," By Bill Wolfe, The Courier-Journal, 11/24/04
http://www.courier-journal.com/business/news2004/11/24/D1-ups24-4181.html
"Strike threat stops some UPS service" (in Canada), Canadian Press, Globe and Mail, 11/22/04
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20041122/RUPS22/TPBusiness/Canadian
Weird, Unusual, Celebrity or Charity Auctions
"Sandwich sells for $28,000 on eBay" (AP) IndyStar.com, 11/24/04
http://www.indystar.com/articles/4/197134-4474-010.html
"Fish-stick Jesus up for sale on eBay" (CP), The Globe and Mail, 11/24/04
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20041124/NATS24-8/TPNational/Canada
Fraud, Privacy, Security Issues
"Hackers Use Web Sites, Ads to Infect PCs," By Brian Krebs, Washington Post, 11/23/04
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7913-2004Nov23.html
"ClearCommerce warns of online auction holiday scams," by Matt Whipp, PCPro, 11/23/04
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/66277/clearcommerce-warns-of-online-auction-holiday-scams.html
"Report Shows Uptick in Automated Phishing," By Jay Lyman, TechNewsWorld, 11/24/04
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Report-Shows-Uptick-in-Automated-Phishing-38454.html
"Kilgore teams with credit card companies to fight Internet fraud" (AP), Wavy.com, 11/23/04
http://www.wavy.com/Global/story.asp?S=2601920
Miscellaneous
"Rare 23-Carat Fancy Yellow Diamond Up for Auction on Overstock.com Auctions" (PR Newswire), Investor's Business Daily, 11/24/04
http://www.investors.com/breakingnews.asp?journalid=24126275
"Ecommerce sites: Long live... the catalogue?" by Will Sturgeon, Silicon, 11/23/04
http://networks.silicon.com/webwatch/0,39024667,39126083,00.htm
