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Growing Pains For Amazon's Used Goods
News A wave of glitches at Amazon.com's storefronts over the past week is just the latest problem for the company's burgeoning used-goods business. Dozens of used-goods merchants, often just individuals moonlighting as booksellers, complained on the e...
[April 23, 2002, 15:02]
Amazon Sees Value In Used Goods
News Amazon.com is expanding its policy of paying commissions to its affiliate Web sites to include the sale of used goods. The used-good commission issue has escalated for affiliates as Amazon has increasingly advocated the sale of used goods on its...
[May 31, 2002, 10:35]
Amazon Strategy Shift May Threaten EBay
News Amazon.com is planning to allow sellers of used goods on its site to branch into new businesses, an analyst said Tuesday, in a move that could put pressure on eBay. Instead of just featuring used DVDs, books and CDs, Amazon could feature the types...
[May 15, 2002, 9:09]
Tesco To Track Milk Deliveries By RFID
News The move signals the next phase of Tesco's RFID plans, which involve using permanent radio tags on "returnable transport items" such as the cages and trolleys used when goods are delivered from distribution centers to the supermarket stores.
[June 2, 2006, 9:40]
Guidance From AIM Global's RFID Expert Group
White Papers These guidelines have been coordinated with commercial logistics RFID practice so that conveyable goods used in common in military and civilian applications may conform to a common standard as far as possible.
[September 30, 2008, 1:20]
Authors Rebel Against Used Books On Amazon
News Sales of used goods are one of Amazon's fastest-growing sectors. And profit margins are higher, often 85 percent, on used goods than on many new ones. By "aggressively promoting" sales of used books on its site, Amazon.com is snatching money out of...
[April 11, 2002, 14:58]
Government Acts Over High-tech VAT Fraud
News In the past, some UK technology companies have suffered — and in some cases gone bust — when they bought goods that had previously been used in such a fraud. Carousel fraud, also called missing trader fraud, occurs when a company charges VAT on a...
[January 27, 2006, 13:25]
E-commerce Growth Slows But Sales Diversify
News Johnson noted that nearly a third of the sporting goods sold are expected to be used items. Online retail sales are expected to post annual double-digit gains until 2008, with sales of sporting goods and food and beverages growing fastest...
[August 6, 2003, 10:29]
EBay Chief Executive Toasts Comdex Crowd
News Of that, 40 percent are new products, 46 percent used, and 14 percent refurbished goods. In a video, Palm senior vice president Ken Wirt talked about how the company started selling refurbished goods through eBay after noticing that there were...
[November 15, 2001, 12:19]
Toxic Tech Threatening Developing World
News The report, entitled The Digital Dump: Exporting High-Tech Re-use and Abuse to Africa, also claimed that US and European manufacturers are dumping computers and other electrical goods under the guise of recycling or charity donations.
[October 26, 2005, 9:45]
ID Theft Gang Thwarts Police With Encryption
News The ID thieves used stolen credit card numbers and created false identities to buy high-end electronics and other goods, which they then resold on eBay. Figures released by Sainsbury's Bank last week found that more than four million UK citizens...
[December 18, 2006, 11:16]
Online Retailers Rapped Over Unfair Contracts
News Contracts previously used by Micro Anvika had given consumers a very short time in which to inspect goods and notify faults, which effectively excluded it from liability, said the OFT. In addition to removing these clauses, the company also dropped...
[June 13, 2003, 16:38]
Marks & Spencer Tags Shirts With RFID
News With the ability to read product details on the RFID tags at different points in the supply chain, the information can be used to ensure that the right goods are delivered to the right store at the right time," the spokeswoman said.
[October 17, 2003, 8:55]
Sun Sets Up Scottish RFID Test Centre
News Sun's move is unlikely to be popular with privacy groups who, earlier this month, called for the suspension of RFID deployments amid fears that the tags will be used for more nefarious people-tracking purposes once they have left stores with...
[December 4, 2003, 9:30]
Smart Cards Get Heavy With Goods Vehicles
News Smart cards and digital signatures are to be introduced in heavy goods vehicles and buses by next summer, to comply with new EU rules designed to better ensure that drivers are keeping within the law.
[October 23, 2003, 18:00]
Error 9407/Blocked Account, Will Skype Ever Join The 21st Century?
Blog In all the time I have used my CC to purchase goods or service via the web not once have I had any problems, because the companies I have dealt with operate their CC fraud monitoring service correctly linking it to your bank statement address.
[July 20, 2008, 18:03]
We Own Windows Trademark - Microsoft
News Microsoft also dismissed earlier windowing operating systems: "Evidence that Xerox and others developed computer systems with overlapping windows as a feature does not show that relevant consumers ever used 'windows' as the name for a genus of goods.
[April 5, 2002, 12:22]
Tech-savvy Shoplifters 'could Alter RFID Tags'
News While the technology mostly threatens consumer privacy, the new technology could allow thieves to fool merchants by changing the identity of goods, he said. When such tools become widely available, hackers and those with less pure motives could use...
[July 29, 2004, 8:40]
Disney Battles Coupon Goof
News Disney had given a $15 (£9.70) gift certificate to customers who bought $65 or more of goods in one of its physical stores or over the phone or Internet in August and September, Gladowski said. The coupon had no minimum purchase requirement, she...
[November 7, 2002, 14:09]
Visa Chaos Prompts E-commerce Warning
News Customers have disputed online transactions, claiming not to have visited the site thus leaving the merchant to pay for goods they had bought. FIPR co-founder Ross Anderson observes: "At present, if I use a credit card to buy something on the net...
[April 15, 1999, 9:02]
