John Donahoe has been president and CEO of eBay since January 2008, when he was named to succeed Meg Whitman. Between 2005 and 2008, he was president of eBay Marketplaces, which accounts for more than 70% of the company’s global revenue. Before joining eBay, he was worldwide managing director for Bain & Co. EBay is the Web’s largest marketplace, and also owns PayPal, the online payments provider.
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Authorities say a Tacoma man financed a high-flying lifestyle - vacations to the tropics, Seattle Seahawks tickets, investments with venture capitalists, an Infiniti M35X – through a novel crime: selling stolen ink on eBay.
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Looking to score an iPod cheap on Ebay? Search for an “I-POD” or an “eye-pod” instead, and you could save big bucks.
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A former store employee is suspected of taking 47 pairs of jeans — worth $450 each — from an Aurora outlet store and selling them on eBay, police said.Police started investigating whether the former worker took the $20,000 worth of jeans from Diesel outlet store at the Chicago Premium Outlets mall in Aurora after they got a tip about the jeans being sold on eBay, officials said. …
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An AuctionBytes survey will measure the impact of eBay’s pending fee structure changes on sellers businesses. eBay will change its fee structure and eliminate the Store Inventory format (SIF) at the end of March, causing disruption to current selling strategies for both auction and fixed-price sellers.
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Selling your old TV or digital camera on eBay just got more expensive, or at least it will soon if you’re a casual seller.
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eBay is trying to make its site a little friendlier to those who only sell things on the site occasionally. The online auction site is basically doing away with the fees charged to list items for sale — if you aren’t selling a whole bunch of stuff.
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eBay sellers will have to get used to a new way of selling on the U.S. site in March when eBay eliminates Store inventory format and institutes new fees.
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With the help of a victim, investigators solved dozens of theft cases and uncovered a group of Oak Harbor thieves who were selling stolen electronics on eBay, according to the Island County Sheriffs Office.
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EBay hopes to lure more sellers by essentially doing away with “listing” fees for people who occasionally auction items on its site. Instead it will take a cut of the final selling price.
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