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2 unusual facts about eBay


Network economics

Examples are website such as EBay, or iVillage where the community comes together and shares thoughts to help the website become a better business organization.

Nichols Industries, Inc.

Now cap guns are collectibles and are highly valued in auctions like EBay and flea markets and private sales.


Air Miles

The British program had an online shopping portal including retailers such as eBay and Currys.

Alan Gelfand

Since 1995, Alan "Ollie" Gelfand loves to collect Vintage skateboards on eBay and sell parts for Volkswagen and Audi vehicles

Alec Empire vs. Elvis Presley

The album is long out of print, but copies have occasionally been sold on eBay, as well as exchanged in MP3 format on p2p networks.

Barkeater Lake

In October 2005 Pandolph and fellow United Media cartoonist Stephan Pastis (Pearls Before Swine) auctioned signed original Sunday strips on eBay to raise money for victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Best In The House Tickets

He wound up with some extra tickets to a Billy Joel concert he planned to attend in Syracuse, NY, started an auction for the tickets on Ebay, and was surprised to see that they sold for more than the amount he had paid for them.

Bob Kagle

In addition to eBay, Kagle sits on the Board of Directors for several companies including: E-Loan, Jamba Juice, Logoworks, Mint.com, Prosper, uShip, and ZipRealty.

Crowdy Head Light

In 2002 the 4th order Fresnel lens was sold on eBay in 2002 for $20,000, and is now on display at Sea Girt Light in New Jersey.

Dean Kruse

Dean was responsible for negotiating the purchase of his auction company in 1999 by online auctioneer eBay which paid $275 million for Kruse International and Billpoint.

Detective School Dropouts

The film was not successful at the box office, but it has gained cult film status in recent years, with out-of-print, used VHS tape copies selling on Ebay and Amazon.com for as much as $50.00 USD.

Dress shoe

Following the criticism, their footwear was eventually auctioned off on eBay to raise money for a young cancer patient, Jaclyn Murphy of Hopewell Junction, New York, who was befriended by the team.

Drivers Republic

It was within his time at Experian and working together with Hitwise that he gained a profile for advising businesses such as Yahoo, Microsoft and eBay on social networking and internet marketing.

EditMe

Customers have included eBay, Microsoft, the US military, the Australian government, The Discovery Channel, UPS, the American Institute of Physics, and several large universities around the world.

European Home Retail

In December 2006, Myleene Klass used eBay to auction off the bikini which she wore during her appearance on TV show I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!, raising £7,000 for the Farepak victims.

Export

The advent of small trades over the internet such as through Amazon and eBay have largely bypassed the involvement of Customs in many countries because of the low individual values of these trades.

Ezbob

Initially, the company provided business funding specifically for e-commerce retailers who used eBay, Amazon, PayPal, shopify, play.com, Magento, PrestaShop, ekmPowershop, ChannelGrabber and More.

Fred D. Anderson

He currently serves as Managing Director and Co-Founder of Elevation Partners, a director of eBay, Yelp, Move, Inc., and Sonos.

Inter Park

Large international companies, such as LG and Samsung, sell their newest products and offer services on EBay and Yahoo! using competitive auctions and fixed-priced storefronts.

IT Leader Forum

In 2011 Dean Nelson, Senior Director, Global Foundation Services - Ebay Technical Operations addressed attendees via a video interview, and Matt Wood, Technology Evangelist for Amazon Web Services, joined the panel via video conferencing.

James Ellington

Ellington eventually attracted sponsorship from skincare company King of Shaves, who offered to sponsor him if the eBay deal fell through.

Jittery

Live at Jittery Joe's was an album released in 2001 by Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel to battle the high prices of bootlegs on eBay.

MafiaBoy

MafiaBoy was the Internet alias of Michael Demon Calce, a high school student from West Island, Quebec, who launched a series of highly publicized denial-of-service attacks in February 2000 against large commercial websites including Yahoo!, Fifa.com, Amazon.com, Dell, Inc., E*TRADE, eBay, and CNN.

Mathias Entenmann

He then became Vice President International of eBay's PayPal subsidiary in Europe and Asia, advanced to being Chief Products and Services Officer at Betfair Ltd in London before he finally joined Loyalty Partner, a vendor of Loyalty programs in June 2011 as Chief Operating Officer.

Microdrive

But in most developed Asian cities, such as Hong Kong and Tokyo, an 8GB version of the Seagate ST1 are selling at the price (as of second quarter 2006) as low as US$220 in retail shops, and under US$50 on eBay.

Mike Fink Keel Boats

The Bertha Mae was put up on Disney's eBay Auction Site and was sold for $15,000 to Richard Kraft, and was later featured in a scene from Kraft's documentary Finding Kraftland.

Mixtape Messiah 7

Chamillionaire auctioned two of these copies on eBay, with all proceeds going to No More Victims, a Houston organization that gives aid to children of incarcerated parents.

My Favorite Husband

These radio episodes are in the public domain, and CDs containing the entire run of My Favorite Husband in the MP3 format are legally offered by several private vendors through eBay and other sites, such as at the public domain repository, the Internet Archive.

Nike Mag

A limited quantity of 1,500 pairs were auctioned on eBay on September 8, 2011 and proceeds are currently being dedicated to the The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's disease research.

Postage meter

eBay and PayPal users can print labels with postage using eBay's online postage solution and pay using their PayPal account.

Pseudonymity

Pseudonymity is an important component of the reputation systems found in online auction services (such as eBay), discussion sites (such as Slashdot), and collaborative knowledge development sites (such as Wikipedia).

RapidMiner

RapidMiner has received over 3 million total downloads and has over 200,000 users including eBay, Intel, PepsiCo and Kraft Foods as paying customers.

Script kiddie

Calce, a.k.a. MafiaBoy, a high school student from Montreal, Canada, was arrested in 2000 for using downloaded tools to launch a series of highly publicized denial-of-service attacks against high-profile Web sites such as Yahoo!, Dell, eBay, and CNN.

Shill

In his book Fake: Forgery, Lies, & eBay, Kenneth Walton describes how he and his cohorts placed shill bids on hundreds of eBay auctions over the course of a year.

ShipWorks

It is a multi-carrier shipping software that integrates with over 40 online sales and marketplace systems including eBay, PayPal, Amazon, and Yahoo.

Style Wars

On June 9, 2011 it was announced that Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist, Flea along with actors Brad Pitt and James Franco and director Spike Jonze were donating items to an eBay auction that would raise money for restoring the film negatives for Style Wars.

The PayPal Wars

The PayPal Wars: Battles with eBay, the Media, the Mafia, and the Rest of Planet Earth (2004) is a book by former PayPal marketing executive Eric M. Jackson.

Two Colours EP

Released on a 7" and a CD in 1995 (see 1995 in music), it is one of the hardest Feeder records to find nowadays (the hardest is a 12" White Label vinyl of their hit single "Buck Rogers", limited to 11 copies), occasionally a copy will become available on eBay.

UMG Recordings, Inc. v. Augusto

Universal Music Group v. Augusto was a federal court case filed by Universal Music Group against Troy Augusto, a man who sold promotional CDs on eBay.

United States Hydrogen Policy

Major corporations like Ebay, Google, Wal-Mart, Coca-Cola, FedEx, Adobe and Sierra Nevada have been using some form of fuel cells for several years and are reporting hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of energy savings every year.

Venfield 8

The numbered prints were quickly torn down and traded on eBay, earning him the praise, “Banksy of Tumblr”.

Virtual tax

The only exception to the ban is Second Life which in the eyes of many, including eBay representatives, is not a game.

Where.com

Prior to its acquisition by eBay in 2011, several industry experts sat on its board including Craig Forman.

WindowsWear

WindowsWear has funding from investors at companies such as Goldman Sachs, Barclays Capital, Coach, Inc., eBay, and Nomura Securities.

WsRadio

In 2008, wsRadio had over $1 million in advertising revenue, including eBay Radio and PayPal Radio.


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