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- Yahoo Dumps Its Online Auction Site
- Yahoo said today that it's closing up shop on its little used online auction site after being pummeled by eBay. How bad was the beating? In March, eBay brought in 60 million visitors. Yahoo's site, on the other hand, couldn't even bring in the minimum 330,000 visitors it takes for...
- Blog posts 2007-05-09
- BASF Buys Methanol on Internet.(uses Portum AG for online auction)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- BASF HAS BECOME one of the first major chemical companies in Europe to conduct an Internet auction for the purchase of a key raw material on the spot market. However, the company used a Frankfurt-based startup Internet exchange rather than San Fran BASF HAS...
- Research articles 2000-03-13
- DEAR DATA DOG: What's the most common Internet scam? - Federal Bureau of Investigation's Internet Fraud Complaint Center sees high percentage of online auction fraud - Brief Article - Statistical Data Included
- Tech support. Seriously, though, judging from consumer complaints, the most common way of getting e-ripped off is through online auction fraud. Forty-eight percent of complaints received in the first six months of operation at the FBI's Internet Fraud Complaint Center, established in May 2000, involved "auction fraud" (www.ifccfbi.gov). The runner-up,...
- Research articles 2001-07-01
- GM buying into online auctions.(News)(General Motors Corp.)
- Auto giant may look online for MRO supplies in the future PITTSBURGH, PA. - General Motors' tryout of Internet auctions to buy production materials at lower costs is another resounding volley across the shifting supply channel. ...
- Research articles 1998-11-01
- Online auction clues. (Punchline).(What Factors Drive Final Price in Internet Auctions? An Empirical Assessment of Coin Transactions on eBay)(Brief Article)
- Everyone knows someone who's hooked on eBay. Apparently, there are operations research experts among the Internet auction site's aficionados. Charles A. Wood, assistant professor of management in the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza School Everyone knows someone...
- Research articles 2002-02-01
- SquareTrade and AuctionWatch.com Partner to Help Online Auction Businesses Build a Trusted Presence On Internet
- Business Editors/Internet Writers
- Research articles 2000-12-19
- E-Negotiations Are In, Price-only e-Auctions Are Out
- The article discusses the benefits of E-negotiation tools and how they are beneficial to both sellers and buyers. In the short term, immediately after the auction is completed, the buyer sees the tangible savings. But when looked at the long-term savings, sellers can eliminate the large sales forces that have...
- White papers 2001-06-01
- Going, Going...
- The advent of the Internet technology made the path of selling products and services smooth for many business organizations. It came as a boon and made a permanent place in the minds of people. As a result, there was no field or sector that wanted to lose the chance of...
- White papers 2004-06-15
- Optimal Selling Strategies in Online Auctions: Optimizing Starting Bids, Reserve and Buy-It-Now Prices
- An increasing number of transactions in online auctions now take place from Businesses to Consumers, as opposed to the traditional view of a Consumer to Consumer. This paper optimizes such managerial decisions in retail firms selling online, using eBay as a channel intermediary. This paper models the stochastic arrival of...
- White papers 2004-06-12
- Current And Future Insights From Online Auctions
- Internet technology can alter business models within organizations. Nowhere is this more evident than in online auctions. Participation in business-to-consumer (B2C) auctions has vastly increased over the last several years, and the number of companies participating in business-to-business (B2B) "reverse auctions" is also up significantly each year for the last...
- White papers 2004-01-19
- Managing Online Auctions: Current Business And Research Issues
- The Internet's computational power and flexibility have made auctions a widespread and integral part of both consumer and business markets. Though online auctions are a multibillion dollar annual activity, with a growing variety of sophisticated trading mechanisms, scientific research on them is at an early stage. This paper analyzes the...
- White papers 2003-11-01
- Can Government Be A Good Ebayer? The Use Of Online Auctions In The Sale Of Surplus Property
- E-commerce, and online auctions in particular, represent important examples of how information and communication technologies have been employed by public organizations to gain benefits in both efficiency and effectiveness. While online auctions have widely been used by governments around the world to drive down procurement costs, they have been seldom...
- White papers 2006-01-13
- How To Sell Effectively On EBay - Top 10 Tips
- This paper lists out some tips and suggestions that will help in selling your products effectively on eBay and thus maximize your profits. It lists out simple, easy to follow yet effective suggestions for selling effectively on eBay. Online auction is scorching the virtual world. More and more people are...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Online Auction Sites - The Market Is Changing
- Have you ever paid ridiculous online auction fees for selling a used item? Have you ever wondered why it costs so much? If so, you are not alone. Millions of online sellers look for new low-cost ways to sell. This paper explains few ideas to save big and avoid fees....
- White papers 2008-04-26
- How Do You Sell Stuff On Ebay And Make Money
- Selling on eBay is not new anymore however if it is your first time trying it out, it can seem very confusing and troublesome. Keep your focus, stay on the game and remember what you started out for, these are the keys to success in an online auction business like...
- White papers 2008-04-11
- 4 Easy Steps To Sell At An Online Auction
- Online auctioning through Ebay and other online auction sites are the craze of the new millennium. With the boom of the dot com era, we have now moved up shopping to a whole new level, where you do not have to be in any shop physically to purchase something you...
- White papers 2008-04-09
- Making eAuctions Work For Your Business
- From eBay to Priceline and beyond, online auctions have captured the attention of the buying - and bidding - public. But e-Auctions aren't just for consumers. In fact, more and more businesses are recognizing that online auctions can be a powerful weapon for procurement and sales. The benefits of the...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- The End Of Online Auctions?
- Since the early years of the Internet consumers have hunted for bargains at eBay. The online marketplace was an exciting place to shop and consumers enjoyed bidding on items and winning auctions. Millions of small businesses became eBay sellers and a global, vibrant ecommerce community emerged benefiting almost everyone involved....
- White papers 2008-09-19
- NeoSaej Raises $1.7 Million For eBay-Style Banking Marketplace
- NeoSaej, an online auction tech startup, has raised $1.7 million worth of a proposed $3.1 million round of funding, per an SEC filing. The Burlington, Mass.-based startup has raised around $15 million in funding in total, including $3.3 million this spring. Investors include Bay Pond Partners, Stata Venture Partners,...
- External links 2009-10-01
- Internet Fraud Virtually Nonexistent at eBay.com; Pioneer of person-to-person online auctions safeguards against fraud with self-policing trading environment
- SAN JOSE, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Sept. 18, 1997--eBay, the inventor of person-to-person online auction classifieds, announced that more than 99.99 percent of the trades on its online auction site ebay.com are successfully completed, providing strong assurance to potential traders that eBay's self-policing auction environment is both safe and effective.
- Research articles 1997-09-18
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