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TAGnotes Mon 3 Apr 2000 Vol 2 Number 53 Issue 135

From: The Auction Guild <tagn-@theauctionguild.com>
Date: Tue Apr 4, 2000 3:16am
Subject: TAGnotes Mon 3 Apr 2000 Vol 2 Number 53 Issue 135

The Auction Guild Notes for Monday 3 Apr 2000
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eBay has a correction to the listing page revision project link
To see the planned on changes go to
http://pages.ebay.com/community/list_pre/index.html
Post your opinions please on the Soapbox at:
http://remarq.ebay.com/ebay/threads.asp?g=discuss%2Eebay
%2Ethe%2Esoap%2Dbox&nav=LAST

At 18:59 PT, eBay reported that there was slowness with parts of the
system, including viewing Item pages and Bidding, and that they had
resolved it by 20:42. If you feel your auctions were effected by
the 2 hour slowdown, we recommend you request refunds by sending
an email to bill-@e....

There is lots of buzz about eBay allowing the VERO police to shut
down auctions in a more capricious manner all the time. Amway
appears to not be allowing any auctions to run, and more and more
companies are shutting down auctions, even when they have no legal
grounds to do so. eBay allows the VERO copyright/trademark/patent
owners to shut any auction down by simply requesting eBay to do so.
eBay does no investigating or follow up, that is left to the person
whose auction was shut down. The auction gets shut down
merely on the VERO partners say so.

http://www2.ebay.com/aw/announce.shtml
Listings, currently approx 4.3mil
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Yahoo Auctions offer to turn you eBay (or other site) rating into
dollar credits to be used for purchasing special auction features
on Yahoo expires 15 April. We tried it today, the credit showed
up quickly, and your spending gets debited against your credit
balance and can be tracked from your billing page.

To see the base information and latest offers use this link € '¶
http://www.auctionguild.com/generic.html;
$sessionid$JNIBZCYAAAAGJWGIHUVUTIWYZA4S1PX0?pid=5
Approx 1.9 million auctions currently running
http://auctions.yahoo.com/
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Amazon Auctions is running an Earth Day auction to raise money
for various ecologically related charities.
http://s1.amazon.com/exec/varzea/ts/promotion-glance/
A189YRVAAF6K4M/ref=a_h_cb2_02_x/002-9767617-5735436

To see the base information and latest offers use this link € '¶
http://www.auctionguild.com/generic.html;
$sessionid$JNIBZCYAAAAGJWGIHUVUTIWYZA4S1PX0?pid=5
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Gold's Auction has a new incentive program for member referrals.
When registering on Gold's, a new member will have the option to
enter the ID of a current member. Upon confirmation of the new
member's registration, they will receive a $10.00 credit to their
GoldsAuction.com account. The member that appears on the
registration of the new member will receive a $5.00 credit to
their GoldsAuction.com account. Currently 9232 auctions.
http://www.goldsauction.com/apps/viewAnnouncements.html
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AuctionOctopus is another, relatively new, Meta Search Engine site.
As all the others do, they too claim to be far superior to all the
rest, so we ran a test on the site exactly as we did for the meta
search report. We found AO to be comparable to AuctionRover, and
BiddersEdge with approximately 50% of auctions showing up in search
as compared to going to the auction sites and searching. Providing
a very average result. The site is attractive, and easy to use,
but has no real standout features to distinguish it from any of
the other meta search engine sites, except maybe for the cam on
their pet octopus mascot. http://www.auctionoctopus.com/
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OAUA membership is still free! Join NOW!!! Take a look at their
educational material accessible to the general public
http://www.auctionusers.org/education.shtml
http://www.auctionusers.org
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If you would like an Auction House or Service Provider added to
this list, please email us at tagn-@t...
or TheAuction-@onelist.com.
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