Here is the AuctionBytes online-auction news roundup for Thursday, February 17, 2005.

Industry News & Trends

"eBay's Home-Cooked Rivals," By Kevin Kelleher, TheStreet.com, 2/17/05
http://www.thestreet.com/_googlen/tech/kevinkelleher/10209302.html

"Support for proposed eBay strike fades," By Tim Richardson, The Register, 2/16/05
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/16/ebay-strike

"E-Bay targets China for future growth," Xinhua, 2/16/05
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-02/16/content_2582315.htm

"Amazon, EBay lose appeal," by Greg Wiles (Bloomberg), Northwest Herald, 2/17/05
http://www.nwherald.com/BusinessSection/323353615184842.php

"Auction Site Offers Distributors Greater Security," Company-issued press release, W3Reports, 2/17/05
http://www.w3reports.com/?itemid=791

"eBay's Matt Ackley Opens Web Services Edge 2005 in Boston: "Web Services...Enabled eBay to Become What It Is Today," Ackley Confirms," WebServices Journal, 2/16/05
http://sys-con.com/story/?storyid=48251&de=1

"Web services power the eBay "platform,"" By Nitin Bharti, SearchWebServices.com, 2/16/05
http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid26_gci1059392,00.html

Consignment Selling

"Local eBay store for sale on eBay," by Elizabeth V. Gross, Wisconsin State Journal, 2/17/05
http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/local/index.php?ntid=28825&ntpid=4

Weird, Unusual, Celebrity or Charity Auctions

""Gates" Relic Gets EBay Bid, and Seller Gets Complaints, By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE, New York Times, 2/16/05
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/16/nyregion/16ebay.html

"Pregnant woman sued over eBay auction," Ananova
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1285917.html

Fraud, Privacy, Security Issues

"Police: eBay customers who bought bank's "hot" computers out of luck," by Bob Joseph, WNBF, 2/17/05
http://www.wstm.com/Global/story.asp?S=2961285