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Cruise around eBay, and you may decide that auctions are too troublesome. If you gotta have that Balenciaga sweater, nothing beats the Buy It Now feature; simply meet the seller's price, and it's yours. Without that feature, in fact, eBay would make a lot less money. Fixed-price transactions accounted for about $14.6 billion in merchandise volume last year, a third of the total. So let's say you came up with that Buy It Now idea and filed for a patent. And let's say a jury concluded that eBay willfully infringed on your patent and owes...
...eBay. And she found it: a beautiful Monique Lhuillier design that was lacy and sophisticated and everything she had hoped for. Smith started bidding. And hoping. And bidding again. At the end of the auction, unfortunately, her bid of $2,400 wasn't high enough to meet the seller's hidden reserve price. That meant the dress didn't sell. Smith was disappointed. Until she received a message from the seller--or, rather, someone she thought was the seller--agreeing to accept her bid but asking her to conduct the transaction outside eBay by wiring the money to a Western...
...YOUR HOMEWORK. Always carefully check the seller's feedback ratings. You want to see dozens of positive messages attesting to his or her reliability. Also, make sure that the merchandise is pictured. You want to see what you're getting, preferably in scale and from many different angles. Finally, pay particular attention to shipping arrangements. Who's paying? How much will it cost? And does the cost sound reasonable...
...9/11 commission's final report, now on the best-seller lists, the panel of investigators took note of the immigration breakdown in general, saying that "two systemic weaknesses came together in our border system's inability to contribute to an effective defense against the 9/11 attacks: a lack of well-developed counterterrorism measures as a part of border security and an immigration system not able to deliver on its basic commitments, much less support counterterrorism. These weaknesses have been reduced but are far from being overcome...
...While few doubt that the PlayStation 3 will be a hot seller when it hits the streets, the delay gives Microsoft's Xbox 360 a major head start-a full year in which it will compete mainly with two older consoles, the PlayStation 2 and Nintendo's GameCube. Xbox game developers will also be busy. Microsoft says it expects that nearly 50 Xbox 360 game titles will be on sale by June, twice the number of games currently available...