Here is the AuctionBytes online-auction news roundup for Tuesday, December 12, 2006.

"The eBay Gulag," by Ed Foster, InfoWorld, 12/11/06
http://weblog.infoworld.com/gripeline/archives/2006/12/the_ebay_gulag.html

"Worst. Timing. Ever," posted by Biddy on the TameBay blog, 12/11/06
http://www.tamebay.com/2006/12/worst-timing-ever_11.html

"Retailer bogs down in Google Checkout," By Sarah Jane Tribble, Elise Ackerman and Dean Takahashi, Mercury News, 12/11/06
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/columnists/16213091.htm

"Plastic surgery," posted by Nick White on the Google Base blog, 12/11/06
http://googlebase.blogspot.com/2006/12/plastic-surgery.html

"Online Swindlers Shift Focus to Smaller Retailers," by Bob Tedeschi, New York Times, 11/16/06
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/11/technology/11ecom.html?ref=technology

Interesting: A consumer-law look at the counterfeit check scheme seen in online-auction transactions and in transactions taken off-eBay - is the consumer always responsible for the loss?
"Counterfeit Check Scam," Posted by Richard Alderman on the Consumer Law & Policy blog, 12/8/06
http://pubcit.typepad.com/clpblog/2006/12/counterfeit_che.html

And Now for Something Completely Different Dept.:
"And now, a stress reliever. An up and coming shooting star of ebay," posted on the eBayers4Change blog, 12/9/06
http://ebayers4change.typepad.com/ebayers4change/2006/12/and_now_a_stres.html