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Boston Globe NY State Buys Worthless Ferry On eBayHard OCP, TXPut it back on eBay…current bid is $14800. Better get your bids in, officials say they are taking the highest bid, regardless how much the high bid is. ALBANY A ferry boat for New York Harbor, purchased by taxpayers for $500000, …

PARIS — EBay has temporarily renamed the yellow stars it uses to evaluate sellers on its French site after a complaint that the symbol had anti-Semitic connotations. More: continued here

An Ebay auction of the “last” bag of Woolworths pic’n’mix has attracted bids of more than £300. More: continued here

EBay Founder Tweets About an Unusual LawsuitNew York Times, United StatesThat is what has happened to Pierre Omidyar, the eBay founder, philanthropist and start-up investor. For more than a decade he has mostly preferred to stay below the public radar, but for the last two years he has been happily Twittering …

eBay Auction Offers Benito Mussolini's CarWMUR, NHFor $1.2 million and a visit to eBay you can buy yourself a piece of World War II history. Benito Mussolini's personal car, a 1937 Alfa Romeo 2300 NM, is being offered on the Web site. The car isn't being sold in a traditional auction, …

eBay Auction Offers Benito Mussolini's CarWESH.com, FLFor $1.2 million and a visit to eBay you can buy yourself a piece of World War II history. Benito Mussolini's personal car, a 1937 Alfa Romeo 2300 NM, is being offered on the Web site. The car isn't being sold in a traditional auction, …

Auctionbytes eBay Shoppers Still Waiting for Microsoft Live CashbackAuctionbytesBy Ina Steiner Some shoppers who bought items on eBay through Microsoft's Cashback program reported problems in getting the money deposited into their PayPal accounts. eBay participated in Microsoft's Cashback program and promoted it during the …eBay to Pull Plug on Old …

eBay Auction Offers Benito Mussolini's CarKCRA.com, CAFor $1.2 million and a visit to eBay you can buy yourself a piece of World War II history. Benito Mussolini's personal car, a 1937 Alfa Romeo 2300 NM, is being offered on the Web site. The car isn't being sold in a traditional auction, …

Psst. Got a secret? Share it on Twitter anonymously — eBay VPs doVentureBeat, CAAmong other things, Twitter is a thought market. In the same brief, fleeting moment you can whisper something in someone’s ear — or mutter it under your breath — you can commit it to the web via Twitter. …

Ancient hockey stick nets no bids on EBayCanada.com, CanadaThe 10-day auction on eBay closed at 4 pm PT Thursday and no hockey enthusiast placed a bid. The seller, a sports collector and son of a Quebec City antiques dealer, said he is not disappointed. Bobby Rouillard noted the publicity and media …