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Ebbel said the site operates in a manner similar to eBay, the popular online auction site. But CollegeBeans.com is more reliable, he said, because buyers and sellers are physically closer together...
...small company in Woburn, Mass., called FairMarket is set to unveil an auction system that will coordinate listings and bids across a hundred online services, including those run by biggies like Microsoft, Dell, Lycos, Excite@Home and Earthlink. Microsoft, Excite@Home and Ticketmaster-City Search are getting a piece of FairMarket as part of their participation. MORE...
...million Amount bid for a kidney in an online auction before eBay yanked the offer as illegal...
...happen for New York City filmmakers Sam Sokolow and Rob Lobl, who--until last week, at least--lived in that peculiar purgatory of artists who made something critically acclaimed but commercially invisible. Then help came from an unlikely source: Amazon.com the burgeoning online book/CD/electronics/toy store and auction house, which just began a program to distribute indie films. Starting this week, people will be able to buy a videocassette of The Definite Maybe from Amazon for $14.95. "With movies, it used to be either you made it big or you ended up just showing it to your friends," says Paul Capelli...
...problem with running an auction site where anybody can put anything up for sale is that sooner or later they will. So it was that eBay officials found themselves Thursday confronting a particularly cringe-inducing entry: item #153213066, billed as a "Fully functional kidney for sale." "You can choose either kidney," the description read. "Buyer pays all transplant and medical costs. Of course, only one for sale, as I need the other one to live. Serious bids only." The listing had been up since August 26 and the bidding had been intense, running from $25,000 up to $5.7 million...