Here is the AuctionBytes online-auction news roundup for Tuesday, March 8, 2005.
Industry News & Trends
"EBay's Joy Ride: Going Once ..." By Gary Rivlin, New York Times, 3/6/05
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/06/business/yourmoney/06ebay.html
Also available at Cnet (no registration required)
http://news.com.com/2100-1038_3-5601400.html
"The World According to eBay," hosted by Tom Ashbrook, NPR's Onpoint, 3/7/05
http://onpointradio.org/shows/2005/03/20050307_a_main.asp
"Shops turn to Ebay's virtual shelves," by Sarah Ryle, The Observer, 3/6/05
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,1431298,00.html
"Domain Owners Lose Privacy," By Kim Zetter, Wired magazine, 3/4/05
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,66787,00.html
"Spoofing plague forces eBay to phones," by Julian Bajkowski, Computerworld, 3/7/05
http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;1141307095;fp;2;fpid;1
"Get rid of your junk and save the world - without leaving home," by Ciar Byrne, New Zealand Herald, 3/7/05
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=5&ObjectID=10113949
"Legal fears lead to pBay renaming," by Eric Meng, Daily Princetonian, 3/4/05
http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2005/03/04/news/12240.shtml
"Overstock.com is purring over publicity from new ads," By Glen Warchol, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3/4/05
http://www.sltrib.com/business/ci_2596543
Consignment Selling
"New store helps the eBay-challenged sell their stuff online," by LaSaundra Brown, WBIR-TV
http://www.wbir.com/liveatfive/laf.aspx?storyid=23867
Weird, Unusual, Celebrity or Charity Auctions
"Quixotic campaign for office uses eBay: Common man raises cash, profile in race to be Ohio governor, By Carl Chancellor, Beacon Journal, 3/4/05
http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/11055938.htm
"eBay breast implant sells for more than $16,000: Internet casino company buys stripper’s infamous 69-HH device," (Reuters) MSnbc, 3/7/05
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7118664
"Breast for sale: $14,000 and rising: A stripper puts one of her most obvious assets up for bid on eBay. Guess what: it's in demand," CNN, 3/3/05
http://money.cnn.com/2005/03/03/news/stripper/index.htm?section=cnn_tech
"Ellen DeGeneres outbid in online auction to name new monkey species" (AP), Canadian Press
http://www.cp.org/english/online/full/science/050303/g030314A.html
Fraud, Privacy, Security Issues
"Dealing with online fraud - Part 2: In the second part of our feature on online fraud, we look at auction scams and dial-up cons," by Paul Allen, Computeractive, 3/7/05
http://www.vnunet.com/features/1161739
"Microsoft Sues KSU Student: Student Plans To Defend Himself," (AP), NewsNet5.com, 3/7/05
http://www.newsnet5.com/news/4258865/detail.html
"On EBay, E-Mail Phishers Find a Well-Stocked Pond," by Ian Austen, New York Times, 3/7/05
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http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/03/07/business/ebay.html
"Former hospital aide faces charges of selling stolen pacemakers on eBay," (AP), Monterey Herald, 3/5/05
http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/politics/11061072.htm
"Possible domain poisoning underway," by Gregg Keizer, TechWeb, 3/8/05
http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNID=18164
Miscellaneous
"Almost an addictive atmosphere," By Juana Jordan, Tallahassee Democrat, 3/6/05
http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/business/11044064.htm
"How to borrow £25,000 from a stranger on the internet," By Becky Barrow, Telegraph, 3;/7/05
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/03/07/nzopa07.xml
