Archive for the 'Online Auctions' Category

eBay UK trains fraud cops

Monday, May 22nd, 2006

UK Auction Info
SCOTLAND has appointed its first “eBay detective” as levels of fraud at online auction sites continue to soar.
Scott Rennie, a detective constable with Strathclyde Police, deals with dozens of complaints each month from Scots who are scammed on eBay and tracks down stolen items which are sold online.

Mobile phone users can access eBay.ie website

Friday, May 19th, 2006

Customers of eBay’s Irish website can now access the service by mobile phone. The deal between O2 and eBay will allow those using i-mode technology to log on to the site.
Customers will be able to access all their familiar “My eBay” features through the service and will be able to bid and pay for goods [...]

O2 offer mobile eBay services

Wednesday, May 17th, 2006

O2 Ireland has partnered with eBay to make the online auction site available to customers of the mobile operator. Users of O2’s i-mode mobile internet service can now visit eBay.ie on their handsets to bid on and pay for goods in more than 13,000 categories and to avail of familiar eBay features such as “My [...]

Samantha Mumba’s BMW car on eBay

Thursday, May 4th, 2006

The Irish singer who reached the top of the charts with Gotta Tell You and Always Come Back To Your Love at the turn of the Millennium hasn’t received one bid for the 316i model which has just 19,000 miles on the clock.
Samantha, whose long promised new album has still to appear in record stores [...]

Colin McRae’s World rally championship Subaru to be auctioned on eBay

Thursday, May 4th, 2006

UK Auction Info
Former Northern Ireland champion Denis Biggerstaff currently owns Colin McRae’s first World rally championship Subaru Impreza - in fact, he drove it to 14th place on the international Rally of the Lakes at the weekend - but has decided to sell it on the world’s biggest internet auction site.