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CHICAGO, May 29 - uBid.com Holdings Inc. , the leading asset recovery solutions company for the world's most trusted brands, today announced additional product offerings on its uBid.com auction website, located at http://www.ubid.com. New and expanded asset recovery relationships will be provided by uBid.com Holdings Inc. in conjunction with Canon, Denon, Epson, Fujitsu, JVC, Kicker International, Onkyo, Philips, Polaroid Corporation and Westinghouse."These new and expanded business relationships underscore our new focus as a multi-channel inventory solutions company," explained uBid.com Holdings' Chief Executive Officer Jeff Hoffman.

The Tire Industry Association (TIA) today announced that their Canadian members who provide tire and wheel service can be featured as an available installer on eBay Motors' web site for free. Offered as a value-added service to eBay Motors' customers, the available installer network allows shoppers to select a TIA member business to perform service on their vehicles. There is no requirement to launch a website or even have a computer system in place. TIA will provide basic contact information to eBay Motors on the members' behalf, including their business name, address and phone number. In addition, TIA will tell eBay Motors which markets they serve and whether they employ TIA-Certified technicians.

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A few months ago, David Grisman bought a mandolin from me. It’s true. I never thought that I would be involved in a commercial deal with one of the greatest mandolin players in the world, but on eBay, I’ve had the opportunity to buy and sell an assortment of pretty amazing things to an assortment of equally amazing people — such as David “Dawg” Grisman, who made the winning bid on my 1921 Vega Cylinderback, to my utter delight. I started “doing eBay” back in 1999, lured by the opportunity to add to my antique doll collection. Soon, eBay was turning me into something I had always wanted to become — an antique toy dealer.

By KEELY BROWN

eBay's ProStores service had an outage on Tuesday evening that knocked merchant websites offline for hours. Customers who use eBay's ProStores service to host their websites will receive a 100 percent credit for any Successful Transaction Fees charged in May 2008 "as a token of our appreciation for their patience and loyalty," according to spokesperson Usher Lieberman. According to a post on the ProStores Announcement board, the issue was caused by a third party vendor that ProStores contracts with for data needs who had an issue with their fire suppression system that affected all ProStores merchants' stores as well as ProStores tech support phone lines

By Ina Steiner

eBay users were buzzing over who had submitted the anonymous filing to the Australian regulatory agency that is reviewing eBay's proposed PayPal-only policy. The 38-page submission argued eBay should not be allowed to exclude competing payment methods. However, AuctionBytes reader David Bromage revealed a method that shows the PDF file submission appears to have been created from a Word document titled, "ACCC Submission by Google re eBay Public 2.DOC," indicating the filer was likely Google. (The submission disappeared from the ACCC site on Wednesday evening, presumably so they could edit out the identifying information.)

By Ina Steiner

The site is hosted by Oodle.com, an aggregator of classifieds from over 80,000 websites, including eBay's Kijiji, Craigslist. Oodle also syndicates listings - published by local marketplaces or directly posted by consumers - across the Web. Oodle listings appear on over 200 sites with over 500k new listings a day, according to information on the Oodle website. Visitors to the Walmart.com Classifieds site can post items for sales for free, and have the listings show up throughout the Oodle network.

By Ina Steiner

eBay users have been curious to find out who submitted an anonymous filing to the Australian regulatory agency that is reviewing eBay's plan to move to a PayPal only option. The submission says eBay should not be allowed to exclude competing payment methods. An AuctionBytes reader found a 38-page PDF filing that appears to have come from Google. A Word document titled,"ACCC Submission by Google re eBay Public 2.DOC," reveals Google probably did the filing. The submission had been removed from the ACCC site on Wednesday, likely due to privacy reasons.

By Mike Sachoff

PayPal customers are up in arms as a series of fresh glitches cost them time and money. Once again, eBay's inability to accurately say when the problem might be fixed is adding insult to injury. The most serious malfunction affects what's known as the "handling_cart," a feature within the PayPal shopping cart that tacks on custom charges for handling, shipping and other services associated with a particular item. On May 15, it suddenly stopped working. The failure has caused many online merchants to lose money each time they use PayPal to sell items that used the feature. As of Tuesday - 12 days after the glitch began - PayPal's support team was still unable to say when it might be fixed.

By Dan Goodin

DUBLIN, Ireland & SAN JOSE, Calif. -PayPal today announced plans to move its Dublin operations center to the Ballycoolin Business Park in Blanchardstown. PayPal’s Dublin operations center houses PayPal's European customer service, operations and fraud prevention functions. There are nearly 900 employees at the current Dublin facility. The new facility holds up to approximately 1250 desks, and will better support PayPal as it continues to grow its European operations.

The well-known online marketplace is to lease over 13,935sq m (150,000sq ft) of high quality office space in Ballycoolin Office Park, writes JACK FAGAN .EBAY, THE hugely successful online marketplace for buying and selling, is to take over three office blocks in Blanchardstown, Dublin 15, vacated by Xerox.The deal will involve more than 13,935sq m (150,000sq ft) of high quality office space in Ballycoolin Office Park which was developed about seven years ago by the print technology firm Xerox.The three interlinking blocks are expected to be handed over to eBay in the coming weeks. Xerox cut its 900-strong workforce by more than half after outsourcing some of its activities to IBM.

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Will eBay's dominance be seriously challenged? Sensis and its iconic Trading Post business has weighed in to the online auctions market with the launch of auctions on tradingpost.com.au, endeavouring to boost revenue and take market share from market leader eBay.  The auction site went live on Monday. The Trading Post online auctions site has been in development for 18 months and is rather timely with the current backlash against eBay's new payment structure which will lock users into paying for purchases through its fee-based PayPal service on June 17. Sensis corporate affairs manager Stephen Ronchi said it is a very strong local alternative for Australians to buy and sell.

By Kathryn Edwards

This Thursday, when you list on eBay.co.uk using the Auction-style, Auction-with-Buy It Now or Buy It Now Only (Fixed Price) formats in eligible categories, insertion fees will be half price for each item you list. So the more you list, the more you can save! Final value fees and feature fees are not included in this promotion.

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