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Get your bids in now, right here. God, 80 people, or thereabouts, actually want to own it. Ours is a sick society, very sick, gravely sick. (No, I have absolutely nothing to do with the sale of that hideous thing.)

I recently sold a camera on eBay. The buyer was very insistent on 2nd day delivery. Paid by PayPal yesterday, and I shipped FedEx 2nd business day yesterday. I sent tracking info to buyer with expected delivery 5/31 yesterday, he responded with thanks and paid extra again thru PayPal for the expedited shipping. This morning he filed a PayPal claim for nondelivery/not as described. My PayPal account is frozen and, because I already transferred the $$, is overdrawn. Fortunately, I can still retrieve the camera from FedEx. It's obvious to me that this is a scam, but how does it...

Remember the laughs -- and gasps -- that greeted Princess Beatrice when she showed up for the royal wedding wearing that, well, unusual hat? Well now the young royal is getting the last laugh. Beatrice, 22, put the blush-colored "fascinator" up for auction on eBay, and it's now been snapped up by an anonymous bidder -- for $130,000! According to People, the princess is donating the cash to two charities: UNICEF and Children in Crisis, the later of which was started by Beatrice's mother Sarah Ferguson (a.k.a. "Fergie," the Duchess of York) to provide education to children in some of...

How would you like to pay just $7 for a $15 gift card? In effect you are being GIVEN $8. Well, that is exactly what is happening right now with eBay OFFERING you this spectacular gift card deal. Yes, you pay only $7 but you get to buy up to $15 worth of anything you want from eBay with this card. If you buy more than $15 then the first $15 is charged to this eBay Gift card for which you pay only $7 and the remainder is charged to your PayPal account.I've used these eBay gift cards many...

If you've had a bad experience on eBay, please tell me about: How it arose (were you buyer or seller) How the problem got resolved, it at all How satisfied you were with the resolution, if any

11 February 2011 Last updated at 07:16 ET Share this pageFacebookTwitter ShareEmail Print eBay removes Harrier jump jet over weapons ban Mr Wilson has previously listed four similar jets on eBay Continue reading the main story Related Stories Harrier jet on sale in Queensbury Bid for Harrier fails to take off A decommissioned Harrier jump jet has been removed from online auction website eBay after officials said it contravened their weapons sales policy. The outer shell of the rare two-seater T2 Harrier, a former museum exhibit, was restored by Bradford company Jet Art Aviation. Company director Chris Wilson said the...

SYDNEY: A seven-year-old British boy nearly bought a real-life Harrier fighter jet for $113,515 via online shopping. The boy hit the "buy it now" button to purchase the fighter jet, which was put on sale at the online store eBay. But his father quickly apologised to the sellers, saying his son was not able to buy the aircraft out of his pocket money, news.com.au reported Friday. "His dad rang up and profusely apologised to us, so it's still for sale. We've put it on as an auction now so that won't happen again," said a spokeswoman for Britain-based Jet Art...

For sale on eBay, a real flight of fancy: Decommissioned Harrier with an asking price of just £69,999 By Ian Drury Last updated at 1:42 AM on 3rd February 2011 It was the iconic fighter plane that helped Britain triumph in the Falklands War. Now aircraft enthusiasts are being offered the chance to snap up a Harrier jump jet to keep in their back garden. The last of the first generation of the revolutionary aircraft is being sold on the auction website eBay. Bargain: The world's last first generation two-seater Harrier jet is on sale on eBay at an asking...

EBay Post: "TOGETHER WE THRIVE" T-SHIRT (GABRIELLE GIFFORDS)TUSCON Item condition: New with tags A portion of the proceeds from the sale of each shirt will be donated to the care and rehibiliation of the victims of the tragic Tuscon shooting. Please Pray for healing. Please specify your size

Elizabeth Warren was recently handed yet another expensive bureaucracy to lead (although not formally so as to avoid an embarrassing Senate confirmation) in the form of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection. You might as well take the $500+ million this will cost the taxpayers each year, pile it up, and torch it for all the good it will ultimately do. As was the case with TARP, the Obama Stimulus that stimulated nothing productive, and a host of other costly programs, this latest bureaucratic incarnation is likely to do little for the public. It is my contention that your humble...

eBay founder Pierre Omidyar just went on Bloomberg TV to say he will not endorse former eBay CEO Meg Whitmanin her run for California governor. Why? Because Whitman is against gay marriage and because she supported a law that Omidyar says took an "extreme" stance against illegal immigrants. CLICK ABOVE LINK FOR VIDEO

Move aside, Michael Bloomberg. California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman has just surpassed your record in personal spending on an election. After giving her campaign another $15 million Tuesday, the Republican former eBay Inc. chief executive has now spent $119 million in the Golden State race. (You can view her campaign-finance records here.) Bloomberg spent $110 million of his own money to win a third term as New York City’s mayor last year. Whitman’s Democratic opponent, former California governor and current state attorney general Jerry Brown, has attacked the Republican’s lavishness. Brown spokesman Sterling Clifford said Whitman is running a...

Starting next July, eBay (EBAY) will no longer let Google (GOOG) provide transaction checkout services on eBay Web sites. It won’t allow any checkout service except its own PayPal-featured service. EBay’s instituting the new policy “to give eBay buyers a consistent, speedy checkout experience and to ensure support for fast-growing sales via mobile platforms...,” Todd Lutwak, eBay’s vice president of the seller experience, wrote in a little-noticed blog post last week. “It’s certainly an attempt to get more revenue through PayPal and direct people to PayPal,” said Beth Robertson, director of payments research for Javelin Strategy & Research.

Since Republican Meg Whitman and Democrat Jerry Brown won their parties' nominations in June, tens of millions of dollars have been spent trying to break the statistical tie that's gripped the race for months. Whitman, in particular, has blanketed the state in radio and TV ads touting her corporate experience and depicting Brown as a failed career politician. Brown hasn't spent anything on advertising yet, but his union allies have aired commercials attacking Whitman as the heartless former CEO of the online auction firm eBay. With the general election season now at its halfway point, 10 weeks from the primary...

Just like the veteran reporter who use to sit in that seat, Helen Thomas' White House briefing room nameplate is gone. But turns out, it wasn't removed to make way for the Associated Press, which is getting Thomas' front-row seat. Instead, it has vanished. It disappeared earlier this week, and nobody seems to know who took it. With tourists coming in and out of the briefing room every day, it seems plausible someone might have nabbed the name plate as a souvenir, one source told Yeas & Nays. Thomas, who was interviewed by Mediaite's Tommy Christopher, doesn't have it at...

HACKENSACK — Two items presumed stolen from the USS Ling submarine almost 30 years ago have been returned to the New Jersey Naval Museum after turning up on eBay for five days.  A brass wheel and an aluminum compartment checkoff list, both missing from the Ling since the early 1980s, were returned to the museum by the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office on Monday. The relics were presented during a special ceremony with more than two dozen members of the United States Submarine Veterans of World War II. The Ling was a 1940s-era Balao-class submarine. "I never thought I'd have an...

On April 5th, 2010, just 6 days after eBay implemented another round of changes -- click here to see the official announcement --  eBay seller zenartinc posted the following topic in eBay's Seller Central Discussion Forum: "5 DAYS STRAIGHT, NOT 1 SALES. SELLING FOR 10 YRS.WHAT THE IS GOING ON HERE!".  It has now been over 3 months and it is by far still the hottest topic on the forum. As of today, there are over 5,600 replies in response to to the original post (click here to read entire thread), the majority of which are complaints from sellers...

When Carly Fiorina launched her campaign for U.S. Senate late last year, she wanted little to do with Sarah Palin. "I've never met her," Fiorina replied when asked about the former Alaska governor's leadership skills. "Next question." And Meg Whitman, the front-running GOP candidate for California governor, probably wasn't planning to ask Dick Cheney or Newt Gingrich to endorse her when she launched her ubiquitous ad campaign last fall. But as the races for governor and senator go down to the wire before the June 8 primary, big name Republicans are jumping into the fray with endorsements — 11th-hour nods...

Posted by her Republican opponent for nomination to the GOP ticket for the governorship of California, Steve Poizner, a political advertisement notes fellow Republican Meg Whitman's efforts to rid Ebay of gun sales and paintings billed as genuine works by famous artists. However, notes the ad, she created a separate division that sells only pornography. The ad also notes the millionaire's involvement in the disgraced Goldman Sachs trading company and concludes "Meg Whitman: Bad judgement. Wrong Values." Polls show that Whitman currently enjoys at 49 to 32 percent approval rating over Poizner. She recently garnered an endorsement from former Vice...

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