AuctionWire

This tool tracks and manage your eBay auctions privately and automatically bids in the last seconds on auction you choose. It uses myibay.com service to keep track of your auctions and bids. It supports main eBay US sites and many International sites and currencies too. It will bid anytime anywhere. You can specify your bid time.

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Midland, Ontario April 17, 2008 – LabX.com, the first business-to-business internet auction and marketplace for scientific products announced today that it has acquired the print and digital publication Lab Manager Magazine® from Vicon Publishing, Inc., Amherst , NH . Vicon Publishing will continue to publish their existing magazines: ALN Europe™, ALN® Magazine, Controlled Environments Magazine®, and Forensic Magazine®. Lab Manager Magazine delivers focused content to an audience of laboratory professionals.

Steve Shellhorn was sued for $10,000 by an eBay seller who sold him some coins.  Shellhorn bought some Morgan silver dollars from a man in North Carolina. The price was fair, but Shellhorn says the coins were packed poorly.  "The coins were hanging out of the envelope, loose, with no packing whatsoever around them," he said. The seller wanted feedback. Shellhorn couldn't honestly say the deal was good or bad so he took the middle ground. "This is neutral feedback, not even negative feedback, but neutral. He sued me for $10,000," he said.

By JESSE JONES

A Quezon City-based nongovernmental organization is one of the recipients of an award for pioneering social entrepreneurship given by the Skoll Foundation of billionaire Jeffrey Skoll, former president of the Internet auction firm eBay and an independent movie producer. The Visayan Forum Foundation Inc., founded by human rights activist Maria Cecilia Flores Oebanda, is among the four Skoll awardees from Asia that will be joining the growing global network of Skoll social entrepreneurs, now numbering 59. It is cited for creating innovative and proven solutions for tackling the world’s most urgent social and economic challenges. As a child in the Philippines, Oebanda helped her family survive by selling fish and scavenging garbage. As freedom fighters against the Marcos dictatorship, she and her husband were imprisoned for four years and separated from their oldest son. Their two other children were born in detention.

By Jerome Aning

Thank you PESA for the warm welcome… I am delighted to be here this morning for several reasons.First, I'm always happy to come to New Orleans. In selecting this site as your 2008 destination and in dedicating a day to Habitat for Humanity, you demonstrate once again the sincerity, compassion and desire to help others that has always been a big part of the eBay community and PESA members in particular.Like many organizations, eBay and our employees donated time and money following Katrina.As well as giving a million dollars to the Red Cross, we also gave more than one million dollars cash directly to sellers living in the most affected areas.

By Ina Steiner

Launches initiative to create more efficient and streamlined sales platform

CHICAGO, April 22 - uBid.com Holdings, Inc. OTCBulletinBoard: UBHI, owner of uBid.com -- one of the leading business- to-consumer and business-to-business online auction companies, today announced it is changing its business strategy to focus solely on liquidating excess inventories for top-brand manufacturers. This new direction meets the growing demand among major manufacturers, distributors, and retailers for a streamlined asset recovery solution and builds on the company's solid foundation, having liquidated more than $2 billion of excess inventory for over 7,000 sellers in the last 10 years.

Citigroup Global Markets issued a report on Tuesday stating eBay.com core US listings for the quarter-to-date are up 23 percent year-over-year, and called it "a material improvement vs. the 2% decline tracked in Q1." Germany is up 45 percent, while UK listings are up 21 percent. However, the firm warned of "noise in the data" due to a recent promotion in the US and year-ago promotions in Germany and UK.

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Online classifieds and vertical ads in the United States will make up nearly a quarter of all Internet advertising in four years, predicts the Kelsey Group. The Princeton, NJ-based research company anticipates online classified and vertical advertising, which combined now account for about 18 percent of online ad spend, will reach 24 percent by 2012. Meanwhile, revenues for interactive classifieds and verticals -- called "marketplaces" by Peter Krasilovsky, Kelsey Group's program director of marketplaces, will reach $14.7 billion by 2012, according to the firm.

By Fred Aun

Exclusive Pay-Per-Click Services Available to Infopia Customers

SALT LAKE CITY, April 21 - Infopia, which provides the leading online, multi-channel selling platform, announced today that it has launched the new Infopia Search Marketing service for small- and mid-sized merchants that sell online. This service is provided by Infopia's top-tier industry partners and is available to all Infopia eCommerce platform customers. The service provides pay-per-click (PPC) management that enhances website traffic and grows online sales.

There's been some talk about PayPal blocking Safari from using its services, and I'm among those concerned about it... even if only from a convenience standpoint. Originally the news was gleaned from statements by PayPal Chief Information Security Officer Michael Barrett regarding browsers without phishing protection -- which most assumed included our beloved Webkit-based compass. But in a brief addendum to a post at the Wall Street Journal last week it was reported that -- while Paypal will be blocking older browsers (IE4-era) and older operating systems -- Safari is safe from the cut.

by Brett Terpstra

While eBay's President of Global Marketplace Operations Lorrie Norrington didn't actually say, "shape up or ship out," it was clear that was the message she gave to a small gathering of eBay sellers on Wednesday. "If you cannot, or will not change business practices to provide a great customer experience, then eBay is not for you - As I said before, sellers who do not make customer service a priority make it difficult for everyone and are not welcome on eBay." She prefaced those words by telling sellers that the key to their success on eBay was DSRs - Detailed Seller Ratings left by buyers. "Sellers with strong DSR scores are going to fare very, very well on eBay. You will get better pricing, better visibility and an unmatched opportunity to reach customers and turn inventory to cash."

By Ina Steiner

Codemasters and Engage In-Game Advertising have unveiled a new form of in-game marketing for the upcoming racing title GRID which will incorporate the eBay Motors marketplace as part of the game. eBay Motors will be used by players to buy, sell and upgrade their vehicles in-game, the publisher said, adding that the auction site will also be sponsoring "The eBay Motors Muscle Series" and featuring an eBay Motors Mustang GTR concept race car. "This is an exciting and creative way to reinforce our brand among core auto enthusiasts," said Curtis Kroeker of eBay Motors. "Engage In-Game Advertising brought the videogame channel and opportunity into view. GRID was the logical platform to reinforce eBay Motors as the leading online destination for buying and selling all things automotive."

By Andy Chalk