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The Auction Guild Notes SPECIAL EDITION TUE 26 DEC 2006
 

THIS ISSUE -
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15 CENT AUCTION AND FIXED PRICE LISTING DAY
ON EBAY US ON WED 27 DEC 2006
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15 CENT AUCTION AND FIXED PRICE LISTING DAY
EBAY CA ON WED 27 DEC 2006
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EBAY'S BACK DOOR WIDE OPEN & LETTING SCAMMERS IN
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15 CENT AUCTION AND FIXED PRICE LISTING DAY
ON EBAY US ON WED 27 DEC 2006
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ebaY US is holding a 15 cent auction style and fixed price listing day
on Wednesday 27 December 2006 between 00:00:01 PT (12:00 AM plus one
second on WED 27 DEC 2006 and ending that same day, 27 DEC 2006 at
23:59:59 PT(11:59 PM plus 59 seconds).

The listing fee for all auction style and fixed price listings are 15
cents on the U.S. site (www.ebay.com) and ebaY Motors parts and
accessories. This includes listings created before 27 DEC 2006 but that
are scheduled to start on 27 DEC 2006.

ebaY will still charge all other fees including final value fees,
listing upgrade fees, such as
Buy It Now, featured plus, subtitle, highlight, bold, gallery, gift
services, scheduled
listings, gallery featured, homepage featured, reserve fees, ebaY
Picture Services, duration
fees, etc.

ebaY is excluding buy it now upgrades, ebaY Motors vehicles,
International, Live Auction, Professional Services, Ad Format, Real
Estate and Store Inventory listings, from the 15 cent promotion.
Additionally, they are excluding business and industrial categories:
tractors & farm machinery (91952), heavy equipment (25249), concession
trailers, carts (67145), imaging and aesthetics equipment (92035),
forklifts and other lifts (97185), manufacturing equipment (92080),
metalworking equipment (92082) and commercial printing presses (26247)
and store inventory listings. The promotional rate does not apply to
listings with a start date prior to 27 DEC 2006 - including those
listings revised during the promotional period. The promotional rate
also does not apply to listings created on 27 DEC 2006 and scheduled to
start after the promotion ends.

List fixed price items through the Sell Your Item Form, ebaY Seller
Tools, and most third-party tools.

In order to use a fixed price listing with a quantity of one, you must
either have 10 or
more feedback or be ID verified. If you have a PayPal account you need
to have 5 or more feedback and accept PayPal as a payment method in the
listing.

Anyone can participate in this promotion, but they must list on ebaY US
and be willing to ship to the US and accept payment in US dollars.

For more info go to -
http://pages.ebay.com/promo/holiday06/?ssPageName=CMDV:AB

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15 CENT AUCTION AND FIXED PRICE LISTING DAY
EBAY CA ON WED 27 DEC 2006
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Starting Wednesday 27 December 2006 at 00:00:01 ET (12:00 AM plus one
second) and ending Wednesday 27 December 2006 at 23:59:59 ET (11:59 PM
plus 59 seconds).

ebaY will still charge all other fees including final value fees,
listing upgrade fees, such as
Buy It Now, featured plus, subtitle, highlight, bold, gallery, gift
services, scheduled
listings, gallery featured, homepage featured, reserve fees, ebaY
Picture Services, duration
fees, etc.

Excluded are ebaY Motors, Business and Industrial Capital Equipment,
Store Inventory Format, Real Estate Auction Format listings and Real
Estate Ad Format listings. The promotional rate does not apply to
listings revised during the promotional period. The promotional rate
also does not apply to listings created during the promotion on 27
December, but scheduled to start after the promotion ends.

For sellers listing with any tool other than Sell Your Item 3.0 form
(SYI 3.0), the promotional price will not be shown during the listing
process. Instead the discount will be reflected in view account status,
as well as in the invoice.

This promotion is only available to Canadian residents.

For more info go to -
http://pages.ebay.ca/promo/15CLD1227/

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EBAY'S BACK DOOR WIDE OPEN & LETTING SCAMMERS IN
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There is a scammer's tool floating around the web that has been offered
for sale to several ebaY users. This tool allows a scammer to access
ALL user info through a utility ebaY uses to track all user information.
If you look at this link, you will see a page with ebaY seller
information overlaid with the scammers SCO Helper program that allows
the scammer to send second chance offers through ebaY's own system, to
potential victims who have bid on the legitimate seller's items.
http://corriganb.com/sco.jpg

If this link goes blank, TAG has a screenshot of the page we will post
on our website.

It is very possible that this ebaY function is what is being used by the
scammers to post the BAPE auctions, and monitor email queries, replies
and payments so they can reroute them. It is obvious that this
information is readily accessible to the scammers, and that ebaY has not
done anything to close the back door being used by the scammers.

For everyone wondering how scammers on ebaY manage to hijack accounts at
will, this is the answer. ebaY says the scammers are getting the info
due to ebaY users falling for phishing scams. That explanation let ebaY
off the hook, but TAG never believed it, as it never made sense. In
light of the BAPE scams - see this article -
http://www.auctionguild.com/generic146.html
it was definitely NOT falling for a phishing scam that exposed the user
information of "Jack" or other tech savvy users who have contacted us
since, with the same story. In the article we said that it appeared to
have to be an insider with access to inside ebaY information. We now
conclude that it may not be an ebaY insider, but instead an outsider,
with complete access to all user account inside information.

If this is as it appears, ebaY is and has been aware of this wide open
back door, and can't or won't do anything about it. We will update this
on our website as more information becomes available.

Class action suit anyone?

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