Archive for May, 2010

Detailed Item Conditions to be Mandatory by July 27

One change announced in Ebay’s 2010 Summer Seller Update was increased specificity with regards to item condition. This will be useful for buyers trying to determine whether “new” means “newish” or ”refurbished” or “still in the package” et cetera. As of May 10, this new system should be in full effect.
The descriptors will vary from category to category, [...]

E-Waste As A Moral Tragedy

Imagine this life: The sunlight, reddened as it sneaks past a latent layer of atmospheric pollution, is partially blocked by the billowing clouds of black smoke smoldering from the night before. Your shallow lungs ache from your daily vigil in front of fiery altars of consumerist waste. The sight of burning circuit boards is as commonplace as flora once were. [...]

eBay Localizes Online Classifieds for U.S. Market

In March of 2005, eBay launched Kijiji. It was a primarily international effort to host local online classified advertisements. Over the course of the next few years, a series of mergers expanded the localized online communities to cover most of the world. This name evidently has a lot of brand recognition outside of the United States, where Craigslist tends to [...]

Vintage Toys Coming Back!

In the 1996 family comedy Jingle All the Way, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sinbad duke it out to obtain the last Turbo-Man toy in order to make their respective son’s Christmas dreams come true. Arnold has a new job now (it was his last comedy), and I haven’t seen Sinbad in anything since, and the movie has a 16% at Rotten Tomatoes. [...]