E-commerce juggernaut eBay is under fire because of a holiday giveaway contest gone awry. On Tuesday 25 November, eBay announced its $1 Holiday Doorbusters deals promotion, giving away 100 gifts rang read more » DiscussBury
Michael Arrington writes that Amazon has a delivery time for Kindles of 11-13 weeks. But you can get one on ebay for a buy-it-now price of about $975. read more » DiscussBury
Richard Winter writes, "EBay's virtual private data marts have been quite successful--hundreds have been created, with 50 to 100 in operation at any one time. They've eliminated the company's need for new physical data marts that cost an estimated $1 million apiece and require the full-time attention of several skilled employees to provision." read more » DiscussBury
Richard Koman gives what I find to be a chilling account of China's monitoring of text messages sent over Tom-Skype, a joint venture between a Chinese wireless provider and eBay-owned Skype, includi read more » DiscussBury
Starting in late October Ebay will only allow PayPal and ProPay and payment upon pickup. All other means of payment will no longer be allowed. A few exceptions will be made, including specific items read more » DiscussBury
Joan Oates writes, "A computer hard disc containing one million sets of bank details was bought on eBay for just 35 pounds.
The secondhand PC contained details of customers from American Express, NatWest and Royal Bank of Scotland. The files included names, addresses, sort codes, account numbers, credit card numbers, mobile phone numbers, mothers' maiden names and even scans of signatures - more than enough for an identity thief." read more » DiscussBury
