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Here are the latest email phishing attacks observed by myself and readers. If you know of others, please contact us.
These attacks are related to ebay and seek to obtain personal information and access to your ebay account.
They pretend to be inquiries.
One common one says that “WelshDruid” wants to inquire about your auction.
Others are emails “confirming” [...]

I guess that’s based on what “rich” means. Ebay really hasn’t been around long enough to create “old money” fortunes. There’s enough money in SELLING “Get Rich On Ebay” information though that major market talk radio stations are running spots for a dropshipping program through direct response (no website mentioned, just a toll free number).
So [...]

Ebay shares are in the news because share prices are taking it on the chin according to outlets like Schaeffer Research. Why? Competitors like Google are unveiling potential rivals to ebay subsidiaries like PayPal. The stock’s price has degraded sharply since it’s Initial Public Offering.
The 70,000+ people reportedly using eBay to make money will likely [...]

A friend of mine was buying some religious videos online at Ebay.
Though he was leery of the address that was only a post office box, he assumed that someone selling religous would be ethical… NOT.
As soon as he placed the order which never came, they closed down their ebay account so they wouldn’t get any [...]

Web Auctions like Ebay are helping Middle Americans recover from the vagaries of today’s economy according to this article…
Al Losey, a corporate trainer at a Detroit auto parts maker, lost his job six weeks ago in what could be another down-and-out story from a hard luck corner of the American economy.
Instead, Losey, and his wife [...]

Did you know you could set up a free blog at ebay? The free blogs are a recent innovation. Jim Cockrum author of Creative Ebay Selling Newsletter suggest you create a NEW Ebay identity to test these blogs. Being new, nobody’s quite sure what exactly will be allowed.
Ebay is very protective about people trying to siphon [...]

IOL - A New Zealand woman convicted of “Streaking” as she dashed across the field during an international rugby match decided to sell her bikini at the Trade Me Internet auction site to recover court costs and fines of about $330.
Bidding had - by the time of this article - gone to $4000.
Unfortunately for the auction [...]

Ebay’s getting into the contextual ad business as reported by Yahoo
Michael van Swaaij, eBay’s chief strategy officer, told a conference of software developers here on Saturday of plans to allow eBay’s army of auctioneers to run contextual ads on other Web sites in exchange for a cut of the resulting eBay sales.
Ebay has an existing affiliate [...]

According to James Jones of the WhatReallySellsBlog, it’s… TOYS!
Toys are one of the few items that sell well the entire year on ebay… The trick is knowing what toys will sell for profit!
You Can’t Afford to NOT Sell Toys On Ebay!
Next week I’m interviewing THE eBay Toy Selling Guru — Jenni Hunt. 
What Jenni does is [...]