EBay loses bid to shield sellers from taxman
When Judy Baldwin started making several hundred dollars a month selling quilt supplies on eBay, she quickly became an eBay PowerSeller. But she also knew that she would have to start declaring that money on her taxes.
Now the Canada Revenue Agency will be checking to make sure roughly 10,000 other PowerSellers are reporting their eBay revenue as well, because of a court ruling made public yesterday.
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Amazon.com Starts Its Own Gadget Blog
As if there aren’t enough gadget blogs, like Gizmodo, Engadget, Crave, and more, Amazon.com has launched its own gadget blog. The blog, named End User, could possibly be a little self-serving, as most of the posts seem to have links directly to Amazon.com items for sale (no!) and the blog’s authors are all Amazon.com employees (double no!).
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EBay CEO Whitman received $10 million pay package in 2007
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Retired eBay Chief Executive Meg Whitman received compensation valued at $10 million in 2007, a pay package that included $787,936 for personal air travel, according to a securities filing by the company on Monday.
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HammerTap Launches New Tool to Help eBay Sellers Make More Money
HammerTap, the leading eBay research provider, has released a new feature that allows eBay sellers to determine their chances of selling and likely profit margins before investing in a product. The new research capability has been released with the latest version of HammerTap’s eBay market research and is titled, “Should I Sell My Product on eBay?”
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Banks to have their say on eBay changes
The Australian Bankers’ Association has been invited by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to make a formal submission to the ACCC’s inquiry into the impact of eBay’s decision to force customers to use its wholly-owned subsidiary, PayPal.
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eBay tops in online ad volume, but Amazon leads in online buzz
Among the leading online retail sites based on number of March purchases, eBay.com dominated in the amount of online ad impressions, but Amazon.com outscored all in online buzz, or the number of mentions in weblogs, Nielsen Online reports.
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eBay cracks down on secondary sales
Tickets to Radio One’s Big Weekend event for the first time, as the debate over secondary ticketing continues to rage. The online auction company has agreed to remove from its site any tickets offered for sale to the event, which takes place on May 10-11 at Mote Park in Madstone, and has set up filters to catch out those who may seek to sell them.
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Ebay Fraud Alert: Ebay Pulse Scam Exposed With Video and Transcript
Another huge kink in eBay’s armor has been revealed today. Several eBay members have managed to manipulate eBay by rigging the eBay Pulse page and making thousands of dollars per month for their effort.
An eBay member has apparently created a piece of software that creates hundreds of thousands of fake eBay accounts. He is then able to use these accounts to create watchers for his and several other eBay members auctions.
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Seller Gets Scammed On Ebay, PayPal Won’t Help
Matt just got his first taste of Ebay, and it wasn’t good—as soon as he mailed off the Best Buy gift card to the buyer, the buyer reversed payment on Matt’s PayPal account and stopped communicating with him. We’re pretty sure he’s screwed on this one, but does anyone have any good advice for what he can do next?
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Amazon Toying with Vertical Integration
Amazon.com (AMZN) has been pursuing growth at all costs. Its recently announced Q1 2008 results are a testament to that drive. It reported the quarter’s revenue at $4.13 billion, meeting analyst expectations and reporting a 37% increase over the previous year. Its earnings for the quarter at $0.34 were marginally higher than the market’s expectation of $0.32, and are 30% higher than previous year earnings.
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