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The Auction Guild Notes SPECIAL EDITION Tue 13 Mar 2007
 

THIS ISSUE -
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20 CENT AUCTION LISTING DAY ON EBAY US
ON WEDNESDAY 14 MAR 2007
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20 CENT AUCTION LISTING DAY ON EBAY CA
ON WEDNESDAY 14 MAR 2007
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20 CENT AUCTION LISTING DAY ON EBAY US
ON WEDNESDAY 14 MAR 2007
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ebaY US is holding a 20 cent auction style listing day on Wednesday 14
MARCH 2007 between 00:00:01 PT (12:00 AM plus one second on WED 14 Mar
2007and ending that same day, 14 Mar 2007 at 23:59:59 PT(11:59 PM plus
59 seconds).
 
The listing fee for all auction style listings is 20 cents on the U.S.
site (www.ebay.com).  This includes listings created before 14 Mar 2007
but that are scheduled to start on  14 Mar 2007.

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 fixed price, buy it now upgrades, ebaY Motors vehicles
and parts and accessories, International, Live Auction, Professional
Services, Ad Format, Real Estate and Store Inventory listings, from the
20 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
14 Mar 2007- including those listings revised during the promotional
period.  The promotional rate also does not apply to listings created on
14 Mar 2007and scheduled to start after the promotion ends.  

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

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/20cent07/

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20 CENT AUCTION LISTING DAY ON EBAY CA
ON WEDNESDAY 14 MAR 2007
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ebaY US is holding a 20 cent auction style listing day on Wednesday, 14
March 2007 between 00:00:01 ET (12:00 AM plus one second on 14 March
2007) and ending on the same day Wednesday 14 March 2007 at 23:59:59 ET
(11:59 PM plus 59 seconds).

Excluded are fixed price listings, business and industrial capital
equipment, All ebaY Motors listings (including parts & accessories,
passenger vehicles, motorcycles, power sports, other vehicles),
international, live auction, professional services, real estate, ad
format and store inventory listings. The promotional rate does not apply
to listings with a start date prior to 14 March 2007 - including those
listings revised during the promotional period. The promotional rate
also does not apply to listings created  14 March 2007 and scheduled to
start after the promotion ends.

http://pages.ebay.ca/promo/20CAU0314/

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WHITMAN FIDDLES AS EBAY BURNS
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Whilst Meg Whitman stood and played her fiddle at the Visa Security
Summit, confidence in ebaY's security continued to burn to the ground.  
Adding fuel to the fire is Vladuz, defeating every ebaY effort to keep
him from posting as an ebaY employee on ebaY's boards.  

Meg Whitman blamed everyone but ebaY for the huge security hole that has
made ebaY the plaything of Chinese hijackers, selling their counterfeit
merchandise to the markets ebaY attempted, and failed, to deny them.  
Meg Whitman blamed Microsoft, Yahoo, the victims of the hijacks, Vladuz
and probably The Auction Guild, for the flaws that are no doubt the
fault of ebaY's bloated, patched, corrupt and insecure coding.  She
thinks every other company but ebaY, should spend their dollars, hire
personnel, fix their security, and build tools for ebaY to use for free,
so that ebaY users can't get scammed, and user confidence in ebaY
continue to turn to ash.  She does not mention, and definitely wont
implement, even the most basic things that ebaY could do to assist
themselves in curtailing their own problems. Meg Whitman does not want
to spend a penny, as that might adversely affect ebaY's ability to
continually fool potential ebaY stock buyers that ebaY is a good
investment, and a safe and fun place to sell and buy merchandise.  There
should be no misconception.  ebaY is not safe and secure, has not been
able to secure their own site, and potential investors should not waste
their money on ebaY stock, until ebaY demonstrates the ability to secure
the site.

In and of itself, access to ebaY employee accounts is possibly not
important.  But the fact that ebaY can't secure even their own employee
accounts is definitely indicative of more serious security flaws.  These
other security flaws are being demonstrated by Chinese counterfeiters
listing upwards of 3 million items each and every day on ebaY, using
fresh cherry picked accounts each time.  The counterfeiters are also
receiving payment through PayPal, and TAG wonders if ebaY continues to
allow this, since this is the only money ebaY is earning on the
transactions.  Since the listings are on hijacked accounts, ebaY is not
making anything in listing or final value fees, but PayPal takes its cut
before the money is sent to the account holder.  

Other indications of security flaws are the ability to override ebaY's
listing parameters.  Scammers and counterfeiters have been able to list
items with titles longer than ebaY allows, add information to running
legitimate listings, list items on NARU (no longer a registered user -
closed or suspended accounts), list items on accounts that are only set
up for buying, (buyer and seller accounts require different financial
information) access accounts without having the password, and the
ability to sell hundreds of items on accounts that don't meet the
criteria for use of certain functions such as Buy It Now.  In addition
the listings appear to index in search immediately, and long before
normal listings do.  All these are indicators that the scammers and
counterfeiters have a level of access and the ability to manipulate the
ebaY system far beyond what they would have if they had only hijacked a
regular users account via a stolen password using phishing.  ebaY needs
to explain how these things are happening, if all the blame is to fall
on ebaY users.

The full article, including proposed stop gap solutions, long term
solutions, screen shots of the latest Vladuz pinkliner postings and
other details, can be found at -
http://www.auctionguild.com/generic153.html
Other TAG articles on the subject -

http://www.auctionguild.com/generic149.html
http://www.auctionguild.com/generic148.html
http://www.auctionguild.com/generic146.html
http://www.auctionguild.com/generic150.html

Articles at -
http://redtape.msnbc.com/2007/03/how_far_has_vla.html
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2100808,00.asp
http://www.eweek.com/slideshow/0,1206,a=202474,00.asp

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