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Deadbeat eBay bidders flagged by start-up
News In the world of online auctioneers, deadbeat bidders are the bane of business. Since its earliest days, eBay has warned its users to beware of deadbeat bidders but has largely left the process of weeding out troublemakers to the community-oriented...
[August 27, 2004, 10:50]
Deadbeat eBay bidders flagged by start-up
Talkback DeadbeatBuster does the same thing for 99 cents a month, has existed for two years, and covers all internet auction sites - not just ebay, and does not require users to give their ebay id or password.http://www.deadbeatbuster.com
[October 15, 2004, 19:15]
Amazon bidders burned
News Amazon.com officials said that Oliver Walker of Archer, Florida, ran online "dutch" auctions for batches of memory chips and graphics cards, allegedly taking payments but failing to deliver the merchandise.
[October 11, 1999, 15:18]
Bidders for 3G licenses announced
News Thirteen companies have applied to bid in the government's auction for 3G mobile licenses. Nine potential new entrants to the market joined the UK's four existing wireless network operators. Five licenses for blocks of spectrum for 3G services are...
[January 13, 2000, 14:12]
Bidders lining up for 3G football rights
News The rights to transmit top English football highlights to third-generation mobile users will be fiercely disputed when they become available next year, according to reports on Wednesday. Hutchison 3G, the first company to launch a full commercial...
[August 6, 2003, 13:50]
Rival bidders for PeopleSoft unlikely
News "White knights" are for fairy tales, according to a new research report that concludes no other software makers are likely to make a play for Oracle acquisition-target PeopleSoft. Oracle's hostile takeover bid for PeopleSoft has prompted...
[July 14, 2003, 8:32]
eNotifier
Downloads eNotifier is a utility that helps to make the process of sending eBay end of auction invoices to your winning bidders faster and easier.eNotifier automatically collates invoices so that each bidder will receive only one email message, regardless...
[January 24, 2003, 6:00]
Auction sites warn on the danger of wire transfers
News UBid posted that note after seeing an upswing in bidders being defrauded by sellers who required them to pay with a wire transfer, company officials said on Wednesday. We urge you to arrange alternative payment with the seller," auction site uBid...
[July 4, 2002, 14:18]
AOL 'shortlists BSkyB and Carphone Warehouse' for UK sale
News Other rumoured bidders for AOL's two million customers included BT and Orange but according to a source, quoted by Reuters, only two ISPs remain. An AOL spokesman declined to comment on the remaining bidders for the ISP's UK access business but did...
[August 4, 2006, 8:25]
A.I.D.
Downloads A.I.D.was created to make the lives of bidders and sellers easier. Sellers- keep track of all your Dutch Bidders. Bidders- never worry again if you sent money to someone. Control and monitor all your online auctions with the Auction Information...
[July 9, 2003, 8:00]
A.I.D. X
Downloads A.I.D.was created to make the lives of bidders and sellers easier. Sellers- keep track of all your Dutch Bidders. Bidders- never worry again if you sent money to someone. Control and monitor all your online auctions with the Auction Information...
[July 9, 2003, 8:00]
Segway bids rocket on Amazon
News A consumer version of the Segway Human Transporter, the scooter formerly known as Ginger, won't be available until the fourth quarter, but that isn't stopping bidders from being carried away by the device.
[February 20, 2002, 9:23]
Napster nears the end of the road
News Napster agreed to sell itself to Bertelsmann for just $8m, barring the appearance of any other bidders in a bankruptcy court auction. The German media giant had already extended Napster close to $85m in loans and contended that any rival bidders...
[August 29, 2002, 10:16]
EBay restricts email access
News Some sellers have been known to offer similar goods at reduced prices to their rivals' bidders while an auction is taking place. The San Jose-based online auction company will direct bidders and sellers to contact one another through eBay's own...
[February 1, 2001, 13:27]
AOL UK sale 'not threatened' by portal ambitions
News According to a report in Tuesday's Guardian, AOL UK's strategy will deter bidders such as BSkyB and Orange from buying its subscriber base because those companies have their own ambitions as content providers.
[August 1, 2006, 13:55]
Broadband auction result could be an own goal
News Critics of the auction, which closed last week, believe serious mistakes were made in the way the licences were designed, meaning that the winning bidders are under no obligation to use them to provide broadband services to homes and businesses.
[June 23, 2003, 15:16]
Software vendors bid for schools IT contracts
News Mark Taylor, chief executive officer of open-source vendor Sirius Corporation, told ZDNet.co.uk that his company had been among the final bidders. ZDNet.co.uk understands Novell was also among the bidders.
[August 18, 2008, 17:16]
Two men brought in by police in eBay fraud schemes
News Last year, another Southern California man was sentenced to 14 months in prison for defrauding 31 eBay bidders out of about $36,000. As with Cruz, federal officials charge that Haim offered computers and other items for sale on eBay and charged...
[December 27, 2000, 11:34]
Millennium Dome to become e-business park
News Originally there were dozens of bidders to take over the Dome when its struggling millennium exhibition closes at the end of this year. The list of bidders had been reduced to a shortlist of Legacy and a consortium led by the Japanese bank Nomura.
[November 21, 2000, 8:37]
Losing patience with eBay
Blog Comment One way to attract bidders yet protect yourself from giving your item away is to start the auction at a ridiculously low minimum, say 9.95, but set a reserve at a price you can live with. Keep in mind that most bids come in at the last minute when...
[August 29, 2007, 8:10]
