Free Auction News & Reviews | Volume #17 | JUNE 2007


Welcome to our June Newsletter - make this summer the hottest season for buying and selling at online auctions! We hope that you find this selection of articles, tools and roundup of the latest Online Auction news helpful.

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Auction News Roundup

Taxman looks at eBay users' profits...
eBay in Patent Fight Over 'Buy It Now'...
EBay Says Fraud Crackdown Has Worked..
£22m wasted at UK property auctions in 2006..
UK is a nation of net addicts..
Coroner's 'lethal' bike concerns..
Going, Going…Everywhere..

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Virgin Enters The Auction Market
Renowned international company Virgin recently announced that it had entered the auction market with its Virgin Wines division. The new auction service will allow customers to bid against each other for a variety of different cases of wine. A limited number of auctions will be available with some lots closing in hours or more often days. Additional innovative auctions will also be displayed such as "sixty second auctions" and more. All cases auctioned are apparently covered by their normal customer promise i.e. they will refund you if you don't like the wine, and aim to deliver 99% of all orders in 7 days. Founded in 2000, Virgin Wines claims to be Europe's largest independent wine retailer, with more than 400,000 customers. ... [Visit Virgin Auctions]

Yahoo US Auctions - going, going, gone!
After recent announcements Yahoo is in the final days of shutting down its auction service in the US and Canada. With all auctions due to close by the 16th June it's time to say goodbye to this auction player. Yahoo warned users to be vigilant for scams over the last days of the auction service. The company advised users to know who they are dealing with and to carefully study terms of sale and payment options before bidding on an item. Yahoo have been consolidating its operations in recent months in an attempt to focus on its core business. Despite the United States & Canadian closures they will still continue with their auction presence in Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan. .... [Visit Yahoo Auctions]

Auction Final - New Free eBay Tool - Beta
Looking for an eBay bargain in amongst thousands of closing lots in various categories can be a difficult task. How can you find out what lots are closing without going into each individual category? Well the simple answer is that you couldn't....until now. AuctionFinal.com is the last minute eBay auction finder bringing back thousands of closing auction lots - all with NO bids! Search all categories or choose specific ones - Filter results by price or country. AuctionFinal works with over 10 eBay sites and should prove a real help for eBay bargain hunters..[Visit Site]

eBay UK 10p Listing Day ...
June 14th is eBay UK's next seller promotion date. For the entire day of Thursday 14th June 2007 (local UK time), sellers who list one or more items in an eligible category using the Auction-style format will pay a 10 pence Insertion Fee per item they list. As always these promotions are subject to Terms & Conditions which can be found here.... [10p Listing Day Terms]

eBay jewellery store fined $400,000 for shill bidding...
A jewellery company which allegedly bid on its own eBay auctions to "illegally drive up prices by as much as 20 per cent" will pay $400,000 (£204,000) in "restitution and penalties", Reuters reports. The New York state attorney general's office said Ezra Dweck of EMH Group and his employees made over 232,000 bids on auctions in the company's Jewellery by Ezra eBay store. The store regularly held no-reserve auctions, but Dweck "ensured his employees knew of which auctions to bid at along with a predetermined price". .....[Read Full Article]

eBid Offers Promotion to ex-Yahoo Sellers...
With the impending closure of Yahoo US & Canadian auction sites another auction site has stepped in to offer sellers an alternative auction marketplace. eBid the recently revamped international auction site has announced a special promotion in an attempt to attract Yahoo sellers. US and Canadian users of Yahoo Auctions can import their feeback for free. In addition they will allow sellers to upgrade to a lifetime Platinum account normally worth $99.99 for absolutely nothing until the end of June 2007...[Visit Site]

eBay yanks its ads from Google
Move by online auction house seen as response to Google's effort to push its own online payment system, according to report. LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -- Online auctioneer eBay Inc. has pulled its advertising from search company Google Inc.'s AdWords network in the United States, an eBay spokesman said Wednesday....... [Read More]

How To Have A Baby On eBay - User Submitted
When Wiz Wharton found out she was pregnant in 2005, she was living in rented accommodation in London with no regular income. Determined to provide her baby with everything he might need but knowing she'd have to do it at a fraction of the normal cost, she found her solution on ebay, the world's largest online auction site. In this unique book, Wiz tells other mums-to-be and their partners how to save themselves literally thousands of pounds by doing what she did, and have fun in the process ...[Read More]

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