News Briefs

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1. Judge OKs EBay Lawsuit Over Sale of Phony Goods
   "The ruling, handed down Wednesday, involves a lawsuit filed by people who say they bought autographed sports memorabilia later found to be fake. The lawsuit asserts that EBay of San Jose, the largest online auction operator, has a responsibility to ensure the authenticity of the sports memorabilia sold through its Web site."
   Lisa Guernsey. San Francisco Chronicle. Published: 10/16/00
2. Going...Going...Gotcha! Going...Going...Gotcha!
   "Web auction scams are up a hundredfold in two years. The sites won't offer bulletproof protection, so here's how to defend yourself--or your business--against con artists and cheats."
   Nina Schuyler. PC World. Published: 9/22/00
3. Evoke to Stream Audio on eBay
   "The blinding speed and excitement of the auctioneer's rippling rap is about to become a part of the Internet. Evoke Communications Monday announced that it will provide live online audio streaming for Live Auctions, a new feature on eBay Great Collections, which will utilize Evoke Webcasting to provide controlled delivery of audio streams to Live Auction participants."
   John Townley. Internet News. Published: 9/18/00
4. How to Protect Yourself From Auction Fraud
   "Old topic, but some interesting reader comments."
   Jesse Berst. ZDNet. Published: 9/8/00
5. Surfers Bid Up eBay
   "Brief report on auction user volume across 10 sites, from Nielsen/NetRatings."
   Neil Strother. ZDNet. Published: 9/8/00
6. Private Deals With Online Sellers Can Easily Go Awry
   "Anecdotes of fraud on eBay."
   KENNETH REICH. LA Times. Published: 9/7/00
7. EBay's Winning Bid Hoaxes, fraud cases haven't slowed 5-year-old auctioneer's rapid rise
   David Lazarus. San Francisco Chronicle. Published: 8/31/00
8. Assets: Safety nets grow as bidders splurge online
   "Interesting comments on escrow services: "About 5 percent of all Internet auction transactions are completed using an escrow service, Wong said.""
   Richard Chang. Reuters. Published: 8/30/00
9. eBay's Whitman touts international plans
   "eBay will soon allow people to buy and sell items across international borders using automatic translation and currency conversion software."
   Rachel Konrad. CNET. Published: 8/15/00
10. To Build Virtual Trust, Web Sites Develop `Reputation Managers'
    ""WHOM DO YOU TRUST? Often the choice comes down to pure intuition. But in cyberspace, many of the clues we draw on -- a person's voice or body language, for instance -- are absent.""
    Thomas E. Weber. The Wall Street Journal. Published: 7/17/00
11. MSN to place reviews on shopping site
    "MSN and Epinions.com will announce a deal tomorrow that will bring customer reviews to the Microsoft-owned portal's shopping area."
    Troy Wolverton. CNET. Published: 7/11/00
12. Yahoo to offer online appraisals on auction site
    "Yahoo announced today that it has teamed up with Eppraisals.com to offer online appraisals for Yahoo auction sellers."
    Troy Wolverton. CNET. Published: 7/10/00
13. eBay asks court to bar member over foul language
    "CHICAGO--eBay said today it had asked a federal judge to permanently bar a man from its Web site, accusing him of using foul language and flouting its own attempts to ban him."
    Reuters. CNET. Published: 7/10/00
14. Going once ... going twice
    "Online auctions have quickly gained favor with shopping public"
    Lisa Hoffman. RockyMountainNews.com. Published: 7/10/00
15. THE BIDDING GAME: A special report; In Online Auction World, Hoaxes Aren't Easy to See
    "When eBay, the Internet auction company, suspended the seller and voided the sale of a vivid abstract painting whose price shot from 25 cents to $135,805 last month, his offense had nothing to do with the authenticity of the painting or the story he …"
    JUDITH H. DOBRZYNSKI. The New York Times Online. Published: 6/2/00
16. Traditional auction houses have rough transition online
    ""One of the reasons I felt comfortable in buying from Sothebys was the reputation of their experts," the bidder said. "If I, as a seller on eBay, described items the way Sothebys does, I'd have a ton of negative feedback, angry customers and likely be facing mail-fraud charges.""
    Troy Wolverton. CNET. Published: 5/30/00
17. Online venture offers Web auction feedback
    "While similar ranking systems are common at online auction sites, this one provides more detail than most. And it is not limited by the constraints of a single online auction place -- a buyer's clients from eBay, Amazon, Yahoo! and others can all enter ratings."
    Rachel Melcer. Cincinnati Business Courier. Published: 4/10/00
18. Introducing Virtual Feedback!
    "Virtual Feedback helps to bridge the gaps created among the various websites, equipping each Web user with a feedback profile from each successful transaction. It doesn't matter if the trading takes place on the largest online auction site, on a brand new site that has just opened its cyber doors, or the transaction is unrelated to any site."
    Excite News. Published: 4/3/00
19. Virtual communities find ways to foster intimacy
    Amitai Etzioni. Chicago Tribune Internet Edition. Published: 3/13/00
20. New E-commerce Rating Service Planned
    InternetNews.com. Published: 2/4/00
21. Suddenly, Everybody's an Expert
    Lis Guernsey. The New York Times Online. Published: 2/3/00
22. Who's been naughty and who's been nice
    US News Online. Published: 9/29/99
23. Reputation Managers are Happening
    "After years of predicting the rise of reputation managers, they finally seem to be happening."
    Jacob Nielsen. ZDNet. Published: 9/5/99
24. eBay plays hardball with feedback ratings
    "In a business where reputation counts, eBay is quietly moving to limit its sellers' bragging rights when they move to rival auction sites."
    Tim Clark. CNET. Published: 6/10/99
25. What Price Reputation? Placing a value on the corporate personality
    "Produced by Management Today in partnership with Fleishman-Hillard the report stands as one of the best guides to date, from which CEOs and all leading managers can analyse the success or otherwise of their own corporate reputation and that of their competitors."
    AllNetResearch. Published: 10/1/97
26. Online auctions -- information for sellers
    "Collection of articles for beginning online auctioneers by Richard Seltzer."
    Richard Seltzer. Acunet.net. Published: