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April, 2010
eBay Consider New Home Page Designs
eBay are considering three new design concepts for the eBay home page, and they are available for you to test and give feedback on. The first is a minimalist home page which focuses on lightning quick page-loading and making searching our eBay’s breadth of categories fast and easy. The second design maintains an increased focus on quick page-loading, searching and browsing but … Read more
Twilight Items Go Under The Hammer
Here at the Goofbay blog, we always like to report any unusual stories from eBay. Quirky, memorable or just pure weird, we always bring the latest news from eBay straight to you. Today we take a look at five Twilight items that have recently been placed on the auction website. This feature will show the lengths fans will go to … Read more
eBay’s Fashion Outlet Shows Auctions Are More Topshop Than Weird Junk
eBay made its name as the place where people sold weird stuff they found in their attic and buyers engaged in bidding wars for vintage records etc. But eBay today has shifted pretty far from its early image and now over half of items on sale are selling for a fixed price, big brands sell direct to consumers and the most … Read more
US eBayers Question Site’s Feedback System
US eBay users are questioning the auction site’s feedback system after a buyer who left negative comments for a seller has been hit by a $15,000 lawsuit for defamation. In 2008 Michael Steadman of Cape Canaveral, Florida purchased a clock from Elliot Miller for $44. He was unhappy to receive, by three shipments, what he believed were the incompatible parts … Read more
Desperate Mum To Put Daughter On eBay
A desperate mum is to put her daughter on eBay in an amazing bid to buy her a private education. Clare Allington, 42, plans to make the astonishing move to try to find a backer to pay for private education for six-year-old Darcy after being appalled with schools in her area, and she got her inspiration from someone who went … Read more
eBay Launch Campaign To Promote New Fashion Outlet
eBay are launching a multi-channel press and PR campaign to promote the new Fashion Outlet with the message ‘The clothes you love, direct from the brands you love’. The campaign will initially run from the 3rd May to the 30th June and will include outdoor adverts, online adverts and email marketing as well as social media and the traditional press. … Read more
iPads Give US eBayers A Quick Profit
Ebayers across the US are gobbling up Apple iPads to list them on the auction web site with the hopes of profiting off overseas buyers. The iPad, which was launched in early April, is still not available to the world market and even that launch date has been pushed back to late May. In the meantime, thousands of auctions have taken place selling … Read more
Replica Of Ex-Basketball Player’s National Title Ring Lands On eBay
Former Florida basketball player Walter Hodge, who won two national titles in 2006 and 2007, was surprised to hear the news. Former teammates, including current Chicago Bulls forward Joakim Noah, called to see why Hodge would sell one of his national title rings. The problem was, Hodge had both of his championship rings in safe-keeping and had no intentions of … Read more
Struggling Poet Husband Put Up For Sale By Wife On eBay
An Australian woman has put her struggling poet husband “up for sale” on eBay. Sonya Semmens, from Ivanhoe in Melbourne, decided to offer up the chance to become patron for her husband, Cameron, aged 35, to give him much-needed financial support after son Spencer’s birth. For 25,000 Australian dollars, the buyer will get one year’s patronage of Semmens, a book … Read more
Death Bus Removed From eBay
The ‘death bus’ that was put up for sale on eBay last week has been removed from auction. Jack Kevorkian’s infamous “death bus” was removed today it has emerged. The 1968 Volkswagen Bus/Van wagon was put up for sale on the website last week by Jack Finn, a Volkswagen parts expert in Ferndale, Michigan, who previously stored it in a warehouse. Finn … Read more
