A French court has ordered eBay to pay £31.6million to luxury goods group LVMH for allowing online auctions of fake copies of its goods.
LVMH said eBay’s French site had not done enough to stop the sale of counterfeit bags and perfumes. The brands affected include Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior and Givenchy.
An eBay statement said LVMH [...]

A decommissioned Royal Navy Sea Harrier FA2 was in service between 1987 and 1997 is up for sale on eBay.
The aircraft no longer flies, there is no engine and many of the internal systems have been removed or made inoperative and the cockpit has been stripped out.
The aircraft is located in Bradford.

We would like to let you know of an important announcement affecting all PayPal account holders in the UK. Effective from 9 July 2008, PayPal will change its fee structure to make it more attractive for our UK customers to send personal payments. We are pleased to announce that:
PayPal will not charge a recipient (regardless [...]

eBay announced and demonstrated its new Auctions app at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. Users can log in to their accounts to buy and sell items wherever they are. The app integrates with Webkit, allowing people to write out full descriptions just like they would in Safari, which has been formatted to match [...]

The first part of the UK’s Independents Day Auction runs to June 18 with two further phases running from June 19-29 and June 27 to July 6. Many of the items that auction-site customers can bid on involve one-off experiences, including playing guitar with The Cult, working as an advertising music supervisor for a [...]

eBay UK have announced that all listings on the site must now offer PayPal as a payment method.
Sellers can continue to offer other payment methods as well, subject to the accepted payments policy.