20 days ago
deusx : The Stupid Gamer » Extremely rare Atari 2700 prototype sells on eBay - "It’s pretty awesome seeing ultra rare and collectable stuff show up for sale, and this one is a true gem. Earlier today, an Atari 2700 prototype sold on eBay for over $5,000. It sounds crazy that someone would bid that much, but the winning bidder
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27 days ago
Anil : Shuttle Chips Shipped — Cheap! - When the Space Shuttle Discovery glided home a few days ago, one of the electronic components which made it possible was the humble Intel 8086 processor. Some of the chips powering support systems for the shuttle were purchased from a motley variety of
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1 month ago
Anil : Shuttle Chips Shipped — Cheap! - When the Space Shuttle Discovery glided home a few days ago, one of the electronic components which made it possible was the humble Intel 8086 processor. Some of the chips powering support systems for the shuttle were purchased from a motley variety of
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2 month ago
Anil : Shuttle Chips Shipped — Cheap! - When the Space Shuttle Discovery glided home a few days ago, one of the electronic components which made it possible was the humble Intel 8086 processor. Some of the chips powering support systems for the shuttle were purchased from a motley variety of
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Anil : Shuttle Chips Shipped — Cheap! - When the Space Shuttle Discovery glided home a few days ago, one of the electronic components which made it possible was the humble Intel 8086 processor. Some of the chips powering support systems for the shuttle were purchased from a motley variety of
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4 month ago
Linkorama : Yahoo!, eBay and Amazon | The three survivors - but it “put them in the curio cabinet” without transforming the company, says Jerry Michalski, a technology consultant. Yahoo! was “so bent on being the future”, he says, that it “missed the new”.
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5 month ago
Rod Begbie : It's Now Completely Impossible To Sell A Laptop On Ebay - I can't imagine trying to sell anything of value on eBay these days -- it's hard enough on Craigslist, and that's free to post to. "The cool thing about eBay's support system is it will always answer your question; unfortunately, that answer will always [via] #
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Rod Begbie : The World's Greatest Music Collection - eBay - 3m records and 300k CDs, for $3m? Bargain! /me runs off to ask for line increase on my credit cards [via] #
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10 month ago
Rod Begbie : eBay auction: Drive Someone Insane with Postcards - "You are bidding on a rare chance to traumatize a treasured friend or relative with baffling, mind-numbing, mystery correspondence from abroad." Hooray for the internet! [via] #
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11 month ago
deusx : 30 YEARS OF 1700+ VINTAGE-PRESENT VIDEO GAME LOT - (eBay item 260177215240 end time Nov-10-07 09:09:56 PST) - Augh! These gigantic, too expensive to ever dream of bidding on collections of old school video game paraphernalia make me cry.
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12 month ago
philgyford : GarageBuy Homepage - Free Mac application for browsing eBay and buying stuff. Much nicer than the site itself. There's also a pay-for app for selling stuff. (via Yoz)
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12 month ago
Linkorama : The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: Skypetards - "Ross Mayfield said the deal made sense because "markets are conversations," according to the Cluetrain Manifesto which as we all know is always correct, because it is, you see, a manifesto."
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13 month ago
deusx : Someone Tries to Sell Belgium on eBay - "Hidden among the porcelain fox hounds and Burberry tablecloths on sale at eBay.be this week was an unusual item: "For Sale: Belgium, a Kingdom in three parts ... free premium: the king and his court (costs not included).""
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16 month ago
nelson : eBay moves ads to BoingBoing - So that's how they're replacing the Google ad traffic; targeted blog posts
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16 month ago
nelson : eBay armageddon - eBay yanks all its ads from Google, apparently out of spite
Jeremy Zawodny : eBay pulls U.S. ads from Google AdWords network - eBay pulls U.S. ads from Google AdWords network: heh
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18 month ago
Rod Begbie : eBay Member Profile for tryork5ifp - Some excellent feedback given to eBay sellers. "Good Seller; reliable, fast, neat, but table manners are horrendous!" "What the..? What THE HELL is this stuff? How the HELL do you get it off? HELP!!" [via] #
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18 month ago
nelson : VATech killer on eBay - AAAAA+++++!!!!!! SWould sell again!
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20 month ago
philgyford : eBay.co.uk: Sony Ericsson W810i Walkman phone BRAND NEW BOXED (item 180084368793 end time 17-Feb-07 10:06:03 GMT) - The fourth time I've tried to sell this. Want a phone? Please bid, unless you're another Nigerian scammer.
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24 month ago
cameron : EBay building bombed - Crazy. I never thought Valleywag would be reporting on real news
jimray : eBay building bombed: Exclusive IMs from an eBayer inside the building - Holy crap, somebody bombed eBay
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28 month ago
Linkorama : Tools for Creating a Community - My panel at the eBay Dev Con in Vegas
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29 month ago
Andy Baio : eBay to Launch Blogs, Wikis and Tags - signs point to Typepad as the blog provider, which would be a big win
Linkorama : eBay to Launch Blogs, Wikis and Tags - 'bout time
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29 month ago
cameron : O'Reilly Radar > Rewarding Users for Contributing Data - Monetary or material incentives aren't all that effective, "And once the reward is worth money, you'll get people contributing crap just to get the rewards. Your reward system is now paying people to piss in your data pool."
plasticbag : Nat Torkington on 'Rewarding Users for Contributing Data' - I couldn't agree more with a lot of this - points-based reputation / prestige systems and financial incentives are generally bad ways to reward contributions in social environments.
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31 month ago
philgyford : Fat Fingers - Searches eBay for mis-spellings of your search term so you can find hidden bargains.
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31 month ago
Linkorama : PayPal Mobile - Holy shit! That’s awesome! I was just expecting a personal payments service, that they’re enabling mobile purchases as well? Rock on. eBay could have just changed the world (again).
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