Online auction giant eBay, which has owned a 28.4pc stake in Craigslist since 2004, published its lawsuit on the internet yesterday. eBay said the dispute centred on its US launch of Kijiji, a similar website which was already available overseas.

eBay says the Craigslist management team “unfairly diluting” its holdings in the ad site.

Craigslist, which operates on a not-for-profit basis, attracts 25m users a month in the US.

Craigslist allegedly told eBay it had “negative” feelings towards Kijiji and it was “no longer comfortable” with eBay as an investor.

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Oxfam America and eBay Foundation, the charitable arm of eBay Inc., announced the launch of Community Gives, an online fundraising campaign designed to support Oxfam’s work of bringing clean water to communities in Ethiopia and Zambia.

Oxfam America was selected as one of only three organizations in the campaign based on input from the eBay Community. Funding from the campaign will support Oxfam’s work to: increase the number of people in rural areas of Ethiopia and Zambia who have access to clean water and sanitation; provide access to new, safer water supplies through upgrades to existing water sources; provide latrines for communities and schools; and train communities on how to manage the equipment and sustain the water supplies.

“The Community Gives campaign is an exceptional opportunity to raise awareness of Oxfam’s work in bringing clean water to poor communities,” said Raymond C. Offenheiser, president of Oxfam America.

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Coventry, Nuneaton - It wasn’t long ago that Ray Johnson was not only down on his luck but was actually homeless. During that time, Ray decided to turn his life around. Ray recounted “I just looked at my life and decided that enough was enough. I became driven to become a success. I discovered, through trial and error, how to become a success on-line. I want to share what I have learned and want to help anyone else who yearns for success.”

Ray’s first venture was to develop an eBook business formula which enabled him to became Google.com’s No.1 Ranked eSeller from over 52 MILLION competitors. He then created The Ray Johnson Group, a full service Internet marketing company whose primary focus is to help aspiring Internet marketers reach their goals.

Ray’s eBook business on eBay, along with that of thousands of other eBook sellers, was subjected to new restrictive eBay policies literally overnight. EBay halted the sale of all digitally delivered products. EBay required any digitally delivered products to be advertised on eBay only through the eBay Classified Ad system.

Ray stated: “Since the eBay change I have been working overtime to develop a new formula to take advantage of the new rules. I discovered ways to take what many thought was a liability and turn it into an asset.” The result is an new system taking advantage of the eBay Classified Ad system that can be the catalyst to growing a bigger and better information product business.

The new system is outlined in the new eBook “BUILD YOUR EBAY EMPIRE CLASSIFIED.” Ray’s new eBook is jam packed with information demonstrating how to continue to utilize eBay to sell downloadable digital information products taking advantage of the permissible eBay tools. It shows ways to conduct business more prosperously than ever!

While discussing his new system Ray said: “Successful on-line marketing is all about adapting to change. The most successful Internet marketers analyze market changes and learn to take advantage of those changes to make their businesses stronger than ever! That’s exactly what I did in developing my new system.”

Ray Johnson of The Ray Johnson Group, Google.com No.1 Ranked eSeller, has made it his mission to help aspiring Internet marketers reach their goals. To learn about the new eBay strategy to build a bigger and better on-line business visit: http://www.ezsellebooks.com

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An artist’s rendering of the waffle left over by Sen. Barack Obama in Scranton sold for $90 Tuesday, giving auction winner “dodo330” a slice of the Electric City’s memorable part played in the Democratic presidential primary process.

But as with political pundits’ interest in Pennsylvania, the nation appears to have lost its appetite for collectibles and keepsakes of Mr. Obama’s half-eaten waffle and sausage link.

Dan Lacey, who painted “Memories of Barack Obama’s Breakfast,” said the waffle painting outperformed other art pieces he has auctioned through eBay. It garnered 20 bidders, 33 bids and a whopping 7,000 page views, and made newspaper headlines as far away as Australia and the United Kingdom.

“Compared to other things I’ve sold, it sold pretty well,” said Mr. Lacey, Minnesota author of the Christian cartoon “Faithmouse.” www.thetimes-tribune.com

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BayGenie automatically snipes eBay bids. It is a Windows application that automates the process of placing bids on an eBay item at the closing time of the auction. With its seamless eBay integration, you can login to eBay and search for items using its integrated internet browser. Once you’ve found an item that you are interested, you can add it to your watch list and setup how long before the end of the auction you want BayGenie to place your bid. Then all you have to do is sit back and relax, or do whatever you want. BayGenie will automatically place the bid for you, even if it’s 3am in the morning.

It also contains an auction tracking system that tracks all the items that you are watching, bidding, won or lost.It shows important information for each item, such as the current highest bidding amount, ending time, etc. It also supports multiple users so that different eBay users can use the same BayGenie without affecting each other.

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Santa Monica Pier Ferris wheel has become a wheel of fortune for an area charity.

The ride was sold at auction on eBay on Friday for $132,400, with half the proceeds going to Special Olympics Southern California.

The owners of the Pacific Park amusement park decided to get a more modern Ferris wheel and auction off the current one, with a starting bid of $50,000.

The 10-day auction ended Friday, and real estate developer Grant Humphreys, CEO of Humphreys Real Estate Investments in Oklahoma City, put in the top bid.

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eBay is standing firm against sellers who have planned a boycott of the auction site on May 1 over policy changes.

The eBay sellers have a list of complaints, ranging from the fact they can no longer give buyers negative feedback, to eBay putting a 21-day hold on some PayPal payments and increases in the fees that are paid as a percentage of the final sales price.

Many of the changes take place on May 1.

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eBay is suing the popular internet community ad site Craigslist to “safeguard its four-year financial investment”.

In a statement, eBay claimed that in January, Craigslist executives took actions that “unfairly diluted eBay’s economic interest by more than 10%”.

No details of those actions were given by eBay.

In its company blog, Craigslist said it was surprised and disappointed by eBay’s “unfounded allegations”.

The company said eBay’s legal action “came to us out of the blue”.

The case, which is sealed, has been filed in a court in Delaware, where Craigslist is registered.
In a press statement, eBay claims that Craigslist’s founder Craig Newmark and its chief executive Jim Buckmaster adopted unspecified measures in January that have disadvantaged eBay and its investment.

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Internet and Marketing Whiz Kids are unleashing new software in conjunction with the new eBay Partner Network to address the need for so many people worldwide right now that need to replace or develop a legitimate and lucrative extra income. Last month alone, over 13.7 million people were looking just on Google, for a work at home, online business, money making opportunity, and this new concept in conjunction with eBay fulfills that need for everyone of them…

“This free eBay Certified software makes shopping online faster, safer, and easier than ever thought possible,” says Tim Gieselman, President of Marketing, MTG of Beverly Hills. Tim goes on to say, “There is also a very lucrative affiliate/referral income wrapped into this amazing technology, where someone can go from zero to a residual 6-figure income in just 90 days or less, starting with only $99.”

“We’ve seen people make in excess of $40,000 in affiliate money within their first 6 weeks with this FreebaySoftware, and that is impressive in anyone’s book.” All the details can be found here: http://www.freebaysoftware.com

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Derek Klein is to sell his 100,000-strong collection of first day covers, including stamps marking George V’s silver jubilee, George VI’s silver wedding and England’s 1966 World Cup victory. He is selling the stamp collection on eBay to pay back £70,000 he stole from church funds.

Judge Peter Jacobs, at Norwich Crown Court, originally wanted to confiscate and auction the collection. The judge agree that a better price would achieved if the collection was sold on eBay after Klein, informed the judge that a conventional sale would fetch less money than online auction.

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