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...done so on the back of a few phenomenally simple ideas, all of which owe allegiance to capitalism in its most raw and ancient form. Anyone can be a buyer and anyone can be a seller. Price is determined by the number of buyers and how much they're willing to pay. Haggling is not only mandatory, it's automated. Sales have a deadline; everything must go. And most importantly the quality of the bazaar increases exponentially with its size. There are rival online auction services - Yahoo! and Amazon.com again - but eBay still has the lion's share...
...pizza an average of once every 50 days. "If they come in once a month or every five weeks, then we have 50% growth,'' he says . That might be a Pollyannaish projection for Thailand where pizza isn't a bargain meal. A large Super Supreme, Pizza Hut's best seller, goes for about $6.25. A bowl of noodles at a street stall costs about 70. "I can get 10 Thai meals for the price of one pizza,'' says Fon Janyasathien, a school counselor...
...latest in cosmetic wrinkle fillers is a synthetic form of the gel-like substance that gives skin its volume and tension. Injections help plump up lips and smooth out creased lines around the mouth. The effect lasts a few months--possibly longer than the current best seller, collagen. And unlike collagen, which is usually made from cow tissue and can cause allergic reactions, Restylane is relatively side effect-free...
...Young is the biggest shipping-supply seller on eBay, although competitors are multiplying (you can't hide on the network). She handles 150 orders a day, nearly twice as many as a year ago, and she has 35,000 customers in her database. Young has reached a legendary status on eBay. She's one of only a handful of 'shooting stars': users with a feedback rating, eBay's form of customer evaluation, of more than...
DIED. ROBERT LUDLUM, 73, master of plot twists and international intrigue whose 21 novels, including The Bourne Identity and The Matarese Circle, sold more than 290 million copies; of a heart attack; in Naples, Fla. Ludlum's first novel, The Scarlatti Inheritance, written at 42, became an immediate best seller. He gave up his day job as a theater producer but continued to do the occasional TV commercial voice-over. His novel The Sigma Protocol, completed before his death, is due in bookstores this October...