AuctionBytes Blog eBay drops controversial PayPal-only bidNEWS.com.au, Australia –3 hours agoBy Fran Foo July 03, 2008 01:55pm eBAY has dropped its bid to use Australia as a guinea pig to trial a new policy where all other modes of payment are …eBay Cancels Plans to Go PayPal-Only in AustraliaAuctionbyteseBay drops PayPal bidScopicaleBay …

Sydney Morning Herald Heads Up: Berkshire Hathaway is BuffettedKansas City Star, MO –3 hours agoBut he’s still in demand, as evidenced by the winning bid on eBay in the annual charity auction of a lunch with the investment sage. …Buffett is amazed his lunch drew a $2.1M bidThe Associated PressDQ parent company …

eBAY has dropped a bid to force Australian users to use PayPal only on its site. More: continued here

CBS News Midnight MadnessCBS News, NY –4 hours agoThat’sa choice that more and more Americans who depend on food stamps have to make as the costs of the basics go up – while their benefits stay the same. …Video: Food Stamp FrenzyCBSall 3 news articles More: continued here

EBAY Australia has dropped plans to ban all payment services but its own from the auction site, and abandoned its challenge to the consumer watchdog. More: continued here

A Canadian fiddler who is no stranger to controversy has put half his future music earnings up for sale on eBay, the auction website. More: continued here

The Akron Art Museum just keeps on winning praise and prizes. The museum won one of the Royal Institute of British Architects 2008 International Awards for its new John S. and James L. Knight Building, designed by the Viennese architectural firm Coop Himmelb(l)au. More: continued here

ONLINE auction website eBay has dropped its bid to make PayPal mandatory on its website. More: continued here

Historic post office, store razedNorth Haven Post, CT –11 hours agoThe IL and HH Stiles Store and Post Office was at 70 Old Broadway. The North Haven Historical Society was unable to save the building because it had not … More: continued here

eBay, that messy superconductor of feverish capitalism, has hit some static. A French court recently ordered eBay to pay about $30,000 to Hermes for “committing acts of counterfeiting,” when an eBay customer sold two fake Hermes handbags on the site in 2006. The seller was ordered to pay the same …