Here is the AuctionBytes online-auction news roundup for Monday, January 17, 2005.

Industry News & Trends

"Big eBay Price Hikes Met with Outrage," By Jennifer LeClaire, E-Commerce Times, 01/14/05
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/55672428333590611.html

"EBay Sellers Protest Planned Fee Increases," By Leslie Walker, Washington Post, 1/16/05
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11364-2005Jan15.html

"QXL faces hostile takeover bid," BBC, 1/14/05
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4173487.stm

"Florissant launches hostile bid for QXL Ricardo," by NICK BEVENS, The Scotsman, 1/15/05
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/business.cfm?id=52322005

"Google Looks To Stop Duplicate Ad Problem," BY PETE BARLAS, INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY, 1/14/05
http://www.investors.com/editorial/tech01.asp?v=1/14

Weird, Unusual, Celebrity or Charity Auctions

"VICTIM'S MUG SHIRT ON EBAY," by Angela Montefinise New York Post, 1/14/05
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/38152.htm

Fraud, Privacy, Security Issues

"Carrick man charged in tsunami relief scam," By Torsten Ove, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 1/14/05
http://www.postgazette.com/pg/05014/442096.stm

"Online seller pleads guilty to wire fraud," Post-gazette, 1/16/05
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05016/443328.stm

"eBay Hawaiian skull vendor avoids jail," by Lester Haines, The Register, 1/14/05
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/14/skull_vendor_deal

Miscellaneous

"Model, mode put twist on sale of used car by vocational school ," by Carl Matzelle, Plain Dealer, 1/16/05
http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/lorain/1105871432326560.xml

"As Craigslist Expands, So Do Worries About Classified Market," By ERIC PFANNER (International Herald Tribune), New York Times, 1/16/05
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/16/technology/16cnd-craig.html

"No More Internet for Them: Fed up over problems stemming from viruses," by Joseph Menn, LA Times, 1/14/05
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-fedup14jan14,0,111456.story?coll=la-home-headlines