The online auctioneer eBay has admitted that personal accounts are being hijacked by fraudsters, but claim it is the responsibility of eBay users themselves to prevent this.
Criminals are obtaining the secret passwords of eBay subscribers and using their sites to conduct bogus auctions for non existent goods.
In a growing number of cases, would be buyers [...]

eBay has implemented their new ‘Safe Payments Policy’ on eBay.co.uk, however they have not suggested when they will actually be enforcing this policy, whereas in the USA, they have a defined date of the January 15th 2006 and given sellers a full 3 months to update their listings where required! Understandably this has caused confusion [...]

Thousands of pounds worth of sex toys and lingerie are being sold off at auction after one of the UK’s largest sex shops failed to pay off a debt.The shelves were cleared at the Hustler Hollywood sex shops in Birmingham and London after Sherforce High Court Enforcement Officers were authorized to seize the goods.
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Original watercolor paintings by Adolf Hitler are going for a few thousand euroson the Austrian page of the auction website eBay, press reports said Wednesday.
A painting titled “Muenchen,” (Munich) bearing the signature of the former Nazi dictator and described by the seller as a “rarity”, was put up for auction on Monday at an asking [...]

eBay has dropped plans to facilitate sales of live pets on its site after thousands of eBay members attacked the move as irresponsible.
The online auction company posted a notice on its discussion board on Friday asking members to weigh in on the plan. The notice said eBay planned to launch a live pets classified service [...]