Tag: auction
Man regrets not buying more domain names in the 1990s – and sells Pizza.com for $2.6m
Don’t we all, mate. Two minutes with a web-based time machine and we’d all be millionaires.
At least Chris Clark had the foresight to register a domain name. He signed up pizza.com – a domain he’s just sold this week for a staggering $2.6m. His initial plan, when he registered the name in the dark days of 1994…
Vzaar video adverts for eBay: bring your stamp collection alive
The Vzaar video service for eBay has had a revamp, and now allows longer videos and an increased monthly transfer limit of 1GB. The brainchild of former eBay employees, Vzaar allows users to insert video into their listings, increasing buyer protection…
Rich idiot buys INCOGNITO 2008 watch for £280,000 – without even seeing it
The recent ‘Only Watch’ auction in Monaco saw a one-off watch sell for an obscene amount of cash – and buyers weren’t even allowed to see it.
The ludicrously high-concept INCOGNITO 2008 watch was created by the House of DeWitt along with architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte…
Has iPhone mania gone too far? Scams and speculation rife
Andy Merrett writes…
I’m looking forward to the imminent release of the iPhone, even if it is taking place thousands of miles away from the UK, but it seems that every day someone has a new theory as to exactly when the iPhone will start being sold, and an utterly convincing reason for why they’re right.
The latest date is June 29th, and that’s true because a local manager in one of the AT&T mobile phone stores saw an email telling her. Apparently, they’ll all arrive in the dead of night (or maybe, mid afternoon) on June 28th, ready for packs of hungry iPhone fans (and not the occasional eBay scammer) to swoop in and sign up.
That doesn’t necessarily negate the “official letter” from AT&T telling staff that annual leave during this period would be discouraged.
Flogging your unwanted Christmas gifts on eBay leads to hurt feelings
In research hardly likely to surprise too many people, it's been discovered that it really does hurt people's feelings if you auction off the tat they gave you for Christmas on eBay. Nevertheless, it's now a pretty common dumping ground…
Line of a song sells for £11,000 on eBay
In another Internet and eBay first, an unsigned singer-songwriter from Wimbledon has sold a line of lyrics from one of his songs on eBay for over £11,000. Jonathan Haselden, desperate to get his music noticed, decided to go for…
