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...earned pop-cultural icon status. There are a dozen books about her, and a half-dozen movies, including the 2006 biopic, The Notorious Bettie Page, starring Gretchen Mol. Not to mention a bunch of tribute songs, countless websites and, almost always, more than a thousand products for sale on eBay. For just $6.99 you could get a Bettie Page 'Don't Tread on Me' Metal Candle Tin & Candle, which "features an image of Bettie Page in red lingerie and licking a whip." And who'll bid $19.99 for the Bettie Page Retro Cincher Corset Lot? The annotation reads: "Bring...
Like everyone else at eBay's San Jose, Calif., campus, John Donahoe sits in a cubicle. Though this is one of the dotcom biz's oldest clichés, the company's 6-ft. 5-in. new CEO really does use the cramped space--filled with eBay trinkets and pictures of his wife (an Obama campaign fundraiser) and four children (all basketball players and eBay users)--as his primary office. That visibility and openness has earned Donahoe, brought in by Meg Whitman from Bain & Co. three years ago and promoted to replace her in March, respect from employees and customers alike...
Tough love is a very fitting description for the Chicago native's eBay tenure so far. In the nine months since assuming the top job, the former Dartmouth basketball player, 48, has shown a penchant for shaking things up. In October he acquired three companies on the same day that he laid off 10% of eBay's 16,000 workers worldwide--a way to boost efficiency in a tougher economic climate...
...eBay may be the ultimate collector's resource, but it kills some of the fun. Sitting in your pj's doing keyword searches for Pez dispensers is not the same as pulling off the road to explore a junk store and finding a prize. Collecting involves more than just buying a full set of something. It is the quest for a family reunion: the posters for all 15 Houdini movies from 1919, all 177 pieces of a Minton dinner set. There's the possibility of failure and the hope for immortality. That helps explain why we have 17,500 museums...
Yesterday, students who went to pick up their tickets to The Game from the box office were told that all undergraduate tickets had been sold out. Many of those once-free tickets are now up for sale, over House lists or on eBay, with massive markups. People are upset, and they should...