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...CASH P2Ps (person-to-person payment services), like PayPal and eMoneyMail, are becoming the standard method of settlement on Web-auction sites. Buyers deposit money in an online account that transfers funds to the seller when a transaction is completed. Unlike credit cards, though, most P2Ps have not been offering fraud protection. That's changing in light of scams in which customers thought they were buying things like hard drives and digital cameras but got stiffed. Varying levels of protection are now available...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brief: Aug. 14, 2000 | 8/14/2000 | See Source »

...those of you who don't know what W is because you are normal, it is an oversize, snotty fashion magazine. The June issue ran this tidbit: "Those adorable newlyweds Vanessa and Bill Getty hosted a gala wine tasting and auction at the St. Francis Hotel with the swell crowd invited"--just a page away from a picture of someone named Muffy Potter Ashton. I mock the magazine partly because I figure if I make the editors mad enough, they will cut me from the spread and no one will have to see the pictures of me. But mostly because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Hate Myself Because I'm Beautiful | 7/24/2000 | See Source »

...Price paid at a charity auction for the handbag of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers: Jul. 24, 2000 | 7/24/2000 | See Source »

...indefinite period of time, so please don't leave your name." Like most boutique wineries, Screaming Eagle offers its 500 or so cases to longstanding customers first. Others have to find the wine elsewhere. A 1996 Screaming Eagle--$125 to those on the mailing list--has an average auction price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Reason to Drink Slowly | 7/17/2000 | See Source »

When bribery fails, oenophiles turn to auctions and rare-wine dealers. Clark Gibson not only paid $600 for a $59 Sine Qua Non 1997 Imposter McCoy Syrah, he also drove from Chicago to pick it up. At the 20th annual Napa Valley Wine Auction for charity last month, collector Chase Bailey bid $500,000 for a single six-liter bottle of a 1992 Screaming Eagle Cabernet, the highest auction price ever paid for a bottle of wine. Under what circumstances do you imbibe a half-million-dollar bottle of wine? "I haven't the slightest idea," says Bailey. "Maybe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Reason to Drink Slowly | 7/17/2000 | See Source »

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