EBay Boycott Fails, Profits Soar (AnandTech)

eBay UK is holding a free auction listing day for private (casual) sellers. Items listed on eBay.co.uk using the Auction-style or Auction with Buy It Now option formats are included in the promotion, which runs on June 6, 2010. Items listed with a Reserve price are excluded from the promotion. More: continued here

Start-up targets eBay with non-auction salesSan Jose Mercury News,  USA –3 hours agoDespite its size, Wigix has a bold and daunting goal: take on the world of online buying and selling ruled by Internet giants like eBay. … More: continued here

MyFox Los Angeles Whitman campaign makes strong upfront pitchVarietyThe former eBay CEO has mounted a credible campaign to become California's next governor, built largely on the strength of using her personal fortune to …Meg Whitman's Wild Week That WasHuffington Post (blog)Poizner, hoping to erode Whitman's Bay Area support, launches first-ever TV …San Francisco Chronicle (blog)Whitman's…

eBay sellers who wanted to launch listings in the new 30-day Fixed-Price format on Tuesday were disappointed to learn that many listing tools did not yet support the new format – including eBay’s own Turbo Lister . eBay made available a new version of the software with the new functionality at 4:15 pm Eastern, 13…

Bleacher Report Selling of Joe Paterno tickets on eBay draws major criticismBoston HeraldIt took only minutes more for pairs of the tickets to start showing up on eBay, a situation that university President Rodney Erickson called "reprehensible." The memorial service, scheduled for 2 pm Thursday at the Bryce Jordan Center, is free, …Paterno memorial tickets…

It’s what EBay is calling the first-ever crowd-sourced designer collection. Shoppers voted on the final five dresses on sale Tuesday exclusively at DerekLam.eBay.com, choosing from 16 styles Lam designed and showed during New York’s spring/summer 2011 fashion week in February…. More: continued here