The Stir Woman tries to buy iPads with food stamps, failsYahoo! News (blog)A Louisville, Ky. woman was arrested before the holidays after she aggressively attempted to purchase a iPads with her food stamp card. Tracy Browning was jailed after she allegedly tried to purchase iPads from a Walmart with her …

eBay Reportedly Testing New Offline Selling OptionsWebProNewsOne of the tests lets would be sellers have eBay employees come to their homes to pick up items and deliver them to “experts” who will then attempt to sell the items for a 25% cut of the selling price. Duryee's report shows a …

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Fast Company eBay Now Giving Customers Pick-Up, Drop-Off OptionsFast CompanyFor customers weary of selling their goods online, eBay is trying to make it a little easier with pilot pick-up and drop-off programs, according to an AllThingsD report. The program allows customers to sell their goods through intermediaries, who take … …

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VentureBeat EBay's Testing Two New Ways to Help Sell Your StuffGizmodoAs major online retailers are being shoved further into the physical realm to keep competitive, eBay's doing everything it can to stay in the fray with the announcement of two new pilot programs. The first comes in the form of …

Indiana’s NewsCenter 1 arrested in Fort Wayne post office robbery tryWSBT-TVFORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — Police have arrested a man in connection with an attempted armed robbery of a Fort Wayne post office. Police say city officers and federal agents arrested 34-year-old Julius Lawson of Fort Wayne on federal robbery …

Analyst Raises Price Target for eBay After Evidence of Strong Holiday SalesAll Things DigitalBaird Equity Research's Colin Sebastian raised his price target for eBay today to $60, up by $2, based on evidence that eBay and PayPal benefited from a 15 percent increase in online spending during the holidays. Sebastian …

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Zap2it.com (blog) 'Doctor Who' postage stamps on the way for 50th anniversaryReality TV WorldThe stamps can be pre-ordered at www.royalmail.com/doctorwho and will be available online and in post offices starting March 26, when a five-stamp miniature sheet will go on sale that includes the Doctor's space and time-traveling TARDIS machine, …