eBay spokesman Hani Durzy stated that the " investment was really for learning purposes ; it gives us access to learn how the classified market online works.

Following publicity about the coins they were initially traded on eBay for several thousand pounds, although an eBay spokesman was unable to confirm if an accepted winning bid of £ 7, 100 for one coin had actually been transacted.

An eBay spokesman has claimed, " Perhaps the dumbest place to try to fence stolen materials is on eBay ," and news agencies have reported incidents of the police purchasing stolen property directly from thieves, leading to their capture.

Recently Michael Goul, Chairman of the Computer Information Systems department of the W. P. Carey School of Business published an academic case based on eBay ’ s big data management and use.

* Michael Jacobson ( 1981 ), Senior Vice President and General Counsel, eBay Inc.

In the 2007 Michael Bay-directed live-action film, Optimus Prime revealed to Sam Witwicky that the surviving Cybertronians managed to learn Earth's languages through the World Wide Web ( with the auction site eBay being cited throughout the film as the primary source of information regarding the eyeglasses of Sam's great-grandfather, Captain Archibald Witwicky ), hinting that the Transformers, being highly evolved sentient electronically composed beings, possess the capability to both interface with communications networks and protocols and glean information from Internet-accessible documents, files and applications.

A single Cheeto described as being in the shape of Michael Jackson doing the Moonwalk Dance sold for $ 35. 18 on eBay in the summer of 2009, attracting national media coverage in the U. S. A couple who found a Cheetos snack in a shape they described as resembling Jesus Christ nicknamed it " Cheesus " and garnered media attention as a result of their consideration of selling on eBay.

The campaign spent over $ 30 million and received contributions from entrepreneurs such as Bill Gates, venture capitalist John Doerr, ( an early backer of Internet search engine Google ), and eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, as well as actors Michael J.

MafiaBoy was the Internet alias of Michael Demon Calce, a high school student from West Island, Quebec, who launched a series of highly publicized denial-of-service attacks in February 2000 against large commercial websites including Yahoo !, Fifa. com, Amazon. com, Dell, Inc., E * TRADE, eBay, and CNN.

" Kim also stated, " Yes, we had an unfortunate incident, but we resolved it in a way that speaks well for her and for eBay.

His computer skills possibly match those of Ernest, as he once stated that he could make eBay crash.

We were putting out 500 seven-inches even though people sell them on eBay for more than I had to put them out with.

This makes it more worthwhile to sell on eBay and brings more sellers onto eBay, which drives prices down again as this increases supply, while bringing more people onto eBay because there are more things being sold that people want.

For obscure reasons a mere handful of copies of these games are known to be in circulation — with T-Mek being so scarce that until a copy surfaced on eBay in late 2005, it was widely held that the PAL release was only a rumor.

Coppercraft Guild items are still popular with collectors on eBay.

Second hand ONdigital receivers are widely available from sources such as eBay and were fully compatible with the successor Freeview system ( and also with Top Up TV ).

Older Super 8 cameras are available from specialized retailers and auction sites such as eBay.

Prepaid SIM cards are available from a variety of different outlets and sometimes appear on auction sites such as eBay.

On September 14, 2007, Prince announced that he was going to sue YouTube and eBay because they " are clearly able filter porn and pedophile material but appear to choose not to filter out the unauthorized music and film content which is core to their business success.

Vintage postcards from this resort are frequently for sale on eBay.

Millions of collectibles, decor, appliances, computers, furnishings, equipment, domain names, vehicles, and other miscellaneous items are listed, bought, or sold daily on eBay.

The applications created by developers are available for subscription by eBay members who also subscribe to Selling Manager.

The eBay fee system is quite complex ; there are fees to list a product and fees when the product sells ( Final Value Fee ), plus several optional adornment fees, all based on various factors and scales.

For most listing categories, eBay sellers are permitted to offer a variety of payment systems such as PayPal, Paymate, ProPay, and Moneybookers.

In October 2009, eBay changed to an affiliate payout system that it calls Quality Click Pricing, in which affiliates are paid an amount determined by an undisclosed algorithm.

There are also critical matters regarding how negative feedback during the post auction stage can offset the benefits of using eBay as a trading platform.

* Alcohol ( alcohol-related collectibles, including sealed containers, as well as some wine sales by licensed sellers are allowed, some sites such as ebay. com. au allow licensed liquor sales ) ( eBay announced September 21, 2012, it will begin removing listings for beer and liquor from its site after a story was aired on the ABC TV show " 20 / 20 ( U. S. TV series )".

The few boxes that still exist are collectables, ( one of which went for $ 349 on eBay ).

** Most brand names and trademarks are capitalized ( e. g., Coca-Cola, Pepsi ) although some have chosen to deviate from standard rules ( e. g., easyJet, id Software, eBay, iPod ) to be distinctive.

This is why new accounts on eBay or Amazon are usually distrusted.

When grey-market products are advertised on Google, eBay or other legitimate web sites, it is possible to petition for removal of any advertisements that violate trademark or copyright laws.

However many of the items sold on eBay are not from reputable dealers, and are often counterfeit-including the items that are sold with Certificates of Authenticity, because these can easily be faked.

The set started selling on eBay at very high prices, sometimes over $ 300 USD ; As well as fetching over $ 1000 USD in ' New ' condition on websites such as " Amazon. com ".

This is very similar to the proxy bidding system used by eBay, where the winner pays the second highest bid plus a bidding increment ( e. g., 10 %).

The Poqets and HP ' LX ' DOS machines became very high in demand, and recently an HP 200LX sold for $ 182 on eBay.

of the number of returns, these sets are rare and very collectible, some selling " pre-crash ' for an average of $ 1000 on eBay.

Now long out of print, Sex is very valuable — prices for a brand-new unopened first edition can start at $ 150USD on Amazon. com or eBay. com.

In an online auction scheme, a fraudster starts an auction on a site such as eBay or TradeMe with very low prices and no reserve price, especially for typically high priced items like watches, computers, or high value collectibles.

To date there has been very considerable investment in supporting the electronic development of business communities, one-to-many social tools ( for example, corporate intranets, or purpose-built exchange and social networking services such as eBay, or Myspace ), or in developing applications for individual use.

These models are now very rare, although they could be found on eBay from time to time.

The album gained popular local airplay, but achieved no commercial success, and is now very rare, only available for purchase on such sites as Amazon. com or eBay.

Initially, enthusiasts used laboratory-grade thermal immersion circulators, often bought used on eBay and requiring very careful cleaning, even then not being recommended for kitchen use.

Examples of carnival glass can be easily found in antique stores, and there is a very active market for it on eBay.

Now, the Dogics are very rare and are sold around $ 300 on eBay.