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 [...]

eBay is banning the use of money transfer providers such as Western Union and MoneyGram in a bid to prevent online fraud.
The auction site is working with the Metropolitan Police, and from mid-January it is unlikely that any police investigation will take place into eBay fraud cases where a money transfer service has been [...]

A world record auction price has just been paid at Bonham’s Design sale for a vase by the renowned ceramicist, Sally Tuffin – titled ‘March of the Penguins’ – the vase sold for £15,720, over six times its high estimate and smashed the previous record for a Honey Bee Jar and Cover which fetched [...]

The device used to take the fingerprints of the Irish martyrs executed after the 1916 Rising is going under the hammer this week.The ink press housed in its original wooden casket is clearly identified by a metal memorial plaque listing each of the 14 martyrs that were executed.The historical piece is set to go for [...]

According to the BBC, eBay’s director of trust and safety Gareth Griffiths admitted to “extreme growth” in the number of account hijacking and fraud incidents during 2005, and another company spokesperson refused to deny that the number of compromised and hijacked accounts might number in the tens of thousands.
Naturally enough, the BBC’s reporting focuses on [...]

Plans for the eight-acre retail complex have been lodged with Limerick City Council by a Belfast developer. When the centre opens in two years’ time, pending planning permission, it will employ more than 1,000 staff in a shopping area covering 300,000sq ft. Belfast company Regeneration Developments Ltd, headed by Indian businessman Suneil Sharma, is behind [...]

A FOSSILISED skeleton of a dinosaur claimed by some to be an ancestor of the Loch Ness monster was sold at auction for more than £35,000 yesterday.
The skeleton of a plesiosaur, which scientists say lived some 205 million years ago, was the first sold on the open market anywhere.
Plesiosaurs, which were marine reptiles, inhabited [...]

Internet search giant Google will create 700 new jobs in Ireland, providing a post-budget boost for the government and a major coup for IDA Ireland.Google will shortly announce plans to expand its European headquarters in Dublin, where it already employs 500 people. The decision by the search engine, the world’s biggest internet firm, was described [...]

Including: two collections of Royal Doulton female figures, one of eight and the other of six sold for £670 and £575. A carved gallery back sideboard made £640 while a Victorian duchess dressing table went at £220. Other prices: walnut drinks cabinet, £210; Georgian side table, £170; oak bookshelves, £160; Sam McLarnon paintings, [...]

A US man accused of scamming almost $3.7 million from an order of nuns added so many extras to some of his cars and SUVs that it’s hard to set a value on them for a bankruptcy auction, the auctioneer says.
A Jaguar XJ8, a Cadillac Escalade and several Chevrolet Avalanches headline more than 40 cars, [...]

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