Word: ebay
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...about. Someone opens a drawer or a box, pulls out an album that had been gathering dust. And images from the past--memories of holidays, vacations--peel back the years' shadows. If you're part of a public family, there is a good chance such photographs might emerge on eBay. That's what happened to us. My mother, who does not own a computer, was informed that a large number of family pictures were being offered on eBay. She authorized the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library (where there are computers) to buy them...
...season alone--is not redeemed. Why? Some people just don't get around to it. But Cameron Johnson, CEO of a new website called certificateswap.com is betting that in many cases the reason is that the shoe--or, rather, the shop--doesn't fit the wearer. Loosely modeled on eBay, a number of websites, including certificateswap.com and swapagift.com have sprung up to capitalize on that fact. Gift-card holders can post their certificates at a small discount and sell them to the highest bidder. Consumers ship directly to each other. The newness of these sites may mean that it takes...
...night before, slipped into the oven that morning and kept chilled under a cooling fan until cook mode kicked in at 6 p.m.--is sitting in warm mode, ready to serve. Stuart is still clutching the Web tablet, monitoring the final minutes of a baseball-card auction on eBay and blocking traffic to the dining room. While his parents work to pry him loose ("Enough already!" his dad prods), I wonder if by acquiring all these gadgets, the Yacobians have simply replaced one kind of domestic chaos with another. But then Stuart sits down, Paige says grace...
...Jordan is going, the rest of the world won't see anything but his dust. He is responsible for nine of eBay's 23 merchandise categories--including motors, electronics, sports and collectibles, each with more than $1 billion in gross sales. He also proposed eBay's two most successful acquisitions: PayPal, known for simplified electronic transactions between buyer and seller; and Half.com a website that sells secondhand books, music and movies...
...Jordan has made himself popular with eBay's community of more than 100,000 merchants by responding to their e-mails. Though Whitman isn't planning to step aside soon, Jordan seems to be laps ahead of anyone else in the race to succeed her. After all, it's hard to compete with a Tasmanian Devil. --By Chris Taylor/San Francisco