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Auction sites implicated in illegal software
News The software was believed to have been peddled on a number of UK auction sites. The Alliance believes up to ninety percent of software sold on auction sites is counterfeit. Raiding one UK property, Trading Standards officers and representatives...
[November 23, 2000, 15:22]
Auction sites warn on the danger of wire transfers
News Fraud has been a persistent problem for online auction sites. And that means they've been used in many fake auctions -- so many that several online auction sites are warning visitors of the dangers. Auction sites need to do a better job to educate...
[July 4, 2002, 14:18]
Microsoft targets counterfeiters on UK auction sites
News Microsoft plans to file more than 50 lawsuits worldwide against online merchants who allegedly peddle counterfeit software on popular auction sites, the software giant said on Monday. This is a worldwide enforcement against sellers of counterfeit...
[October 31, 2006, 8:20]
Online auction sites face wrath of piracy busters
News Head of the BSA Internet Enforcement Program Margo Miller claims auction sites have become a haven for fraudulent software and calls on the sites to stamp out transactions involving counterfeit software.
[October 19, 2000, 11:42]
Auction sites implicated in illegal software
Talkback ebay are profiting from piracy, its not only pirate software they sell, they also sell drugs & all the equipment you need to grow the stuff & any one with a computer can buy the stuff, a 6yr old with a computer can purchase valium & other pills.
[March 26, 2004, 18:34]
Auction sites host Kosovo benefit
News All proceeds from the auction will go directly to the organisation's Kosovo fund.
[April 13, 1999, 7:33]
Yahoo! to shut down European sites
News s European auction sites are going, going, and nearly gone -- and so too are sellers' feedback ratings. On 28 June, the online portal company plans to shut down the auction sites that serve the United Kingdom and Ireland, as well as those that...
[June 14, 2002, 10:22]
US experiences record breaking e-Christmas sales
News Online shoppers are spending in record numbers this Christmas, and auction sites may have the most to gain, a pair of research reports indicate. For the week including Thanksgiving, traffic to auction sites was up about 50 percent over the same...
[December 14, 2000, 8:19]
Yahoo! concedes Europe auctions to eBay
News will close five of its auction sites in Europe and instead promote eBay's competing auctions as part of an agreement the companies announced on Wednesday. will stop accepting new listings for its auction sites serving France, Germany, Italy and Spain.
[May 23, 2002, 8:50]
Business Software Alliance tackles online scams
News The Business Software Alliance continues to battle distribution of counterfeit software on peer-to-peer and auction sites. The counterfeit-software problem on auction sites is so bad that the Software and Information Industry Association has said...
[October 6, 2008, 14:57]
Resellers: Cisco not tackling counterfeit products
News Cisco is not taking enough action to stamp out the sale of counterfeit products on internet auction sites, according to networking-product resellers. Mike Sheldon, chief executive of reseller Network Hardware Resale, told ZDNet.co.uk on Wednesday...
[July 7, 2008, 17:18]
eBay riled by Romania's policy on phishers
News Online auction site eBay has hit out at the lack of interest in cybercrime enforcement in countries including Romania, warning that not enough is being done to stop fraudsters targeting auction sites.
[March 11, 2008, 7:46]
Murdoch's News International enters online auctions
News UK auction sites have a fight on their hands next month as Rupert Murdoch enters the fray. News International's online business subsidiary, News Networks, is to launch an auction site on February 25 that will compete directly with UK sites such as...
[January 25, 2000, 6:03]
Watch out eBay, here comes Yahoo!
News joined an elite club this week when it announced that it has a million simultaneous items being sold on its auction site -- joining online auction pioneer eBay as the only two sites to have reached that mark.
[November 5, 1999, 10:26]
Jesse Berst: The plan to kill eBay (and why it won't work)
News FairMarket is teaming up with Microsoft, Excite@Home, Lycos, Ticketmaster and other leading Web sites to create an "eBay-killer" -- a mega-auction network. Post your item on one site and it will automatically appear on all the other sites that are...
[September 20, 1999, 10:52]
Microsoft launches online auction
News The FairMarket Auction Network will allow all of FairMarket's more than 100 clients to pool resources, so that auctions listed on one site will be displayed across multiple sites. MSN launched an auction site Monday, marking Microsoft's first move...
[September 20, 1999, 14:55]
EBay: OS for the highest bidder
News The inquiry by the Justice Department followed eBay's tussles with "auction aggregation" sites that, using their own technologies, displayed eBay listings alongside those from Yahoo! Having captured most of the Internet auction market with its own...
[November 20, 2000, 12:55]
AuctionPad
Downloads If you are a frequent buyer of items on auction sites, AuctionPad will give you a single place to archive seller information. Similarly, if you are a frequent seller of items on auction sites, AuctionPad gives you a single place to keep track of...
[October 7, 2008, 8:35]
M'Learned Web: Do online auctions work?
News But the auction Web sites are different. The auction house communicates with the buyer and all the prospective buyers. If you look at the small print the online auction houses impose you get a very different picture.
[January 26, 2000, 14:58]
Internet addicts surf on work time
News The survey revealed that 67 percent of workers access news sites for personal reasons and 37 percent access shopping and auction sites while in the office. While 78 percent of employers block employee access to pornography, only 47 percent block...
[August 23, 2002, 9:39]
