Archive for August, 2006

Scheduled Maintenance: Friday 1st September 2006

Thursday, August 31st, 2006

The eBay system will be undergoing maintenance from about 07:00 to 09:00 BST on Friday September 1st 2006.
During this maintenance period, certain eBay site features may be intermittently una…

Stolen fossilised dinosaur prints on ebay UK

Thursday, August 31st, 2006

Dinosaur prints stolen from a protected site in South Wales have been found advertised on auction website eBay.
The fossilised, three-toed prints, inset, were ripped from the coastline near Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan where they had been left 200 million years ago.
They were advertised for sale by a shop in Lyme Regis, Dorset, before [...]

Man robbed at gunpoint after going to pick up eBay car purchase

Thursday, August 31st, 2006

UK Auction Info
A man who went to pay for a car he had bought on eBay was robbed at gunpoint by the person selling the car, according to reports.
23-year-old Shahzad Ali Shah from Crawley, West Sussex, was told by the seller of a Mercedes Benz Kompressor C180 that a cash purchase would be neccessary, the [...]

Information about One-Time Direct Debit Payments

Thursday, August 31st, 2006

We have received reports from members who are experiencing difficulties when making a one-time direct debit payments to their eBay account.

We are currently investigating these reports and …

Caprice selling her car on eBay

Wednesday, August 30th, 2006

UK Auction Info
Caprice is planning to sell her car on auction website eBay, after being banned from driving for 12 months for drink-driving on Friday.
The 34-year-old was arrested in central London on December 10 last year and subsequently failed a test, which showed her to have more than the legal limit of alcohol in her [...]

eBay Agreement with Google

Monday, August 28th, 2006

In an expansion of our ongoing relationship, eBay and Google have agreed to work together in ways that complement our companies? strengths. Google will become the exclusive provider of text-based…