Friday, May 20, 2005

Check eBay Auctions From Your TV

A new service is being tested in Austin allowing Time Warner Cable subscribers that have a DVR unit to check the status of their eBay auctions. There are more than 300,000 Time Warner cable subscribers in the Austin area, however the number of DVR users is not available. Read More Here.

Saturday, May 14, 2005

PayPal's Future Plans

PayPal has always been one of my favoirite tools in the online auction world. Now their focus is on expanding PayPal's use beyond the auction world. This article is an interseting read discussing some of the things PayPal is working on.

Saturday, May 07, 2005

Some Sources for Government Auctions

After doing some more searching I found some more places to find items to sell on eBay. I should have know that government auctions had hit the internet :)
Click here and go to the bottom of the page. There are several companies that handle auctions on behalf of the government. I did some looking last night. Not sure about some of the prices, but it was interesting to 'look around'.

Wednesday, May 04, 2005

eBay Consignment Shop

A consignment shop with good intensions. Here is a story about Home Sweet Home that sells items on consignment through eBay while raising money for homeless and low-income people.

Using eBay for charity auctions

Interesting how people find ways to raise money for charitable causes. Here is a story about a man from Richmond using an online auction as a way to raise money for his disabled stepdaughter.

Sell your childs name on eBay, why did'nt I think of that???

In another off the wall story, here is one about a parent selling the rights to her baby's name on eBay to goldenpalace.com

Another Source For Large Amounts of Wholesale Items

Another interesting site to checkout is www.liquidation.com . I found this site after setting up a few Google alerts. This could be a really good source for many different things to sell on eBay.

My eBay items for sale