Here is the AuctionBytes online-auction news roundup for Monday, March 28, 2005.

Industry News & Trends

"Appeals court hears Yahoo's Nazi case," Reuters, Cnet.com, 3/25/05
http://news.com.com/2100-1030_3-5636695.html

"Going Once, Going Twice, Going to Court Over Dispute With eBay," by Pam Smith, The Recorder, 3/25/05
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1111658717407

"Is eBay Past Its Peak?" by Tim Gray, InternetNews.com, 3/25/05
http://www.internetnews.com/ec-news/article.php/3493026

"Yahoo's Sina Courtship Speculation Continues," By Jim Wagner, InternetNews.com, 3/24/05
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3492621

"Postal Service teaches eBay 101," by Dan Nakaso, Honolulu Advertiser, 3/22/05
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2005/Mar/22/bz/bz02p.html

"Can You Patent Online Fundraising?" Posted by Mike on TechDirt Blog, 3/24/05
http://techdirt.com/articles/20050324/1441203_F.shtml

"IRS May Label eBay Sales as Tax Revenue," by Mary Dalrymple (AP), BusinessWeek, 3/27/05
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D893F5C02.htm?campaign_id=apn_home_down

"Online and on air, they reach out to many," MoneyControl.com, 3/24/05
http://www.moneycontrol.com/backends/News/frontend/news_detail.php?autono=164353

"ResellHub.com Offers Clutter-Free Ebay," Press Release, 3/26/05
http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2005/3/emw221701.htm

Consignment Selling

"Spring cleaning - the eBay way: S.F. company makes house calls to sell your stuff online for you, by Pia Sarkar, San Francisco Chronicle, 3/26/05
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/03/26/EBAY.TMP

Weird, Unusual, Celebrity or Charity Auctions

"Owe no for local student: eBay rejects Carleton grad-to-be's efforts to auction off debt online," by Rosalyn Stevens, Ottawa Sun, 3/25/05
http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/OttawaSun/News/2005/03/25/971753-sun.html

"He sold his voice on eBay: Annals of advertising: Auctioning off his voice on eBay was something to shout about," By Les Christie, CNN/Money, 3/24/05
http://money.cnn.com/2005/03/23/pf/vocevertising

"Want a basketball team? You can find it on eBay," by Travis Lazarczyk, Kennebec Journal, 3/27/05
http://kennebecjournal.mainetoday.com/sports/stories/1490188.shtml

Fraud, Privacy, Security Issues

"Hospital employee arrested after theft," MetroWest Daily News, 3/27/05
http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=94227

Miscellaneous

"APWU Private Mail Haulers Strike In Des Moines and Kansas City," APWU Web News Article #11-05, March 23, 2005
Note: This is the website of the union
http://www.apwu.org/news/webart/webart-0511-mca%20strike-050323.htm#
Here's something on a site called Radio Iowa about the strike:
http://www.radioiowa.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=765F3F45-269A-4963-801E86B25AD6388F

"Automated Ads Serve Up Nonsense," By Kevin Delaney, Wall Street Journal, 3/24/05
Paid subscription required
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/0,,SB111162702948688321,00.html?mod=todays_free_feature