Auctionbytes-NewsFlash, Number 1180 - December 23, 2005 - ISSN 1539-5065      Previous Story | | Next Story

By Ina Steiner
AuctionBytes.com
December 23, 2005
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Here is the AuctionBytes online-auction news roundup for Friday, December 22, 2005.

"Wall Street Takes Stock of eBay," by Worth Civils, Wall Street Journal, 12/22/05
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB113502439156026603.html?mod=e-commerce_primary_hs

"Used Medical Devices Being Sold on Ebay: Refurbished Items Have Little Oversight," By Alec Klein, Washington Post, 12/22/05
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/21/AR2005122102078.html

"Xbox Photos Fetch Huge Prices On eBay: An eBay shopper from New York paid more than $600 for a photograph of an Xbox, thinking it was the real thing," By K.C. Jones, InformationWeek, 12/20/05
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=175007318

"Hackers Hijack Ebay Accounts," By Janko Tietz, Spiegel, 12/19/05
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spiegel/0,1518,391774,00.html

"If only there was a Web site like Ebay, but just for toys ... Aha!" by Dave Carpenter, (AP), Lexington Herald-Leader, 12/19/05
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/business/13433933.htm

"Bidder Uncovers $100,000 eBay Fraud: FBI Is Investigating Case," (Internet Broadcasting Systems, Inc.), WFTV.com, 12/22/05
http://www.wftv.com/technology/5610160/detail.html

"Hitler's watercolours on eBay," (AFP), Times, 12/22/05
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,173-1953098,00.html

"Renault tries selling cars on eBay," By DAVID PEARSON, (DOW JONES NEWSWIRES) Wall Street Journal, 12/23/05
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB113529499179529941.html

"Senator Proposes Online Tax Bill; DMA Balks," Direct Newsline, 12/22/05
http://enews.primediabusiness.com/enews/direct/newsline/current#senator_proposes_online