eBay Grabs Headlines
Three announcements put eBay into the headlines this week:
- A judge in California has dismissed a lawsuit that claimed that eBay held a monopoly on online auctions because it owns both the most-visited auction site and the most-used online payment method (Paypal). The case was “In Re EBay Seller Antitrust Litigation, 07-cv-01882, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California (San Jose)” and was dismissed on Friday, March 5, 2010.
- World of Good a company that has made a business of connecting artisans in developing countries with mainstream consumer markets has been acquired outright by eBay, Inc., after a two-year collaboration.
- eBay launched a new advertising campaign and website to tout the environmental benefits of buying used merchandise online. The bottom line message in the campaign is, “The greenest product is the one that already ex
ists.”
The eBay Green Team campaign is in line with the approach taken by many Easysale customers, who resell unwanted items such as electronics online when they purchase newer models.
“If you don’t sell a perfectly good laptop or iPhone or network server when you buy a new one, chances are it will be stored for awhile and then thrown out when it has lost all of it’s value,” explains David Goldstein, vice president of marketing at the North Texas eBay consignment store. “So why not sell it while it is still useful to someone else?”
For information on “going green” by turning your unwanted or used items into cash, visit the Easysale location nearest you in North Texas, or check out “What Sells” to get an idea of what’s hot on eBay right now.
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