What happens when the role of an auction changes from selling unique items at Sotheby's to driving large markets for consumer goods on eBay and other online auction sites? EBay began as a Web site ...

The largest online seller of trading cards is testing a new policy that could be among the most impactful changes to the platform in years for buyers, sellers and even third-party applications. So far ...

After a heated bidding war on EBay, Mark Lanier recently paid $2,125 to win a 1941 naval machinery manual. It sounds like a peculiar collecting hobby, but to Lanier it was serious business. The ...

In a surprising turn of events, eBay has put a number of restrictions on trading card seller PwCC for shill bidding. eBay has been the go-to platform for consumer-to-consumer selling. The platform has ...

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The issue of shill bidding — which is essentially defined as bidding on an item with the intent to artificially increase its ...

eBay and InPhonic, a wireless company backed by former Apple CEO John Sculley, announced Wednesday a new monthly service that among other things, lets people more easily bid on an item using their ...

The world's biggest flea market has gone upscale as eBay launches a joint site with Sotheby's. The online auction giant and the traditional auction house opened their joint Web site on Friday and have ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Sold: A fixer-upper Northern California town, for nearly $1.8 million -- on Internet auction site eBay. Now tiny Bridgeville waits to see who its new owner is. If the deal goes ...

A quartet of National Lampoon comedy writers are trolling for work. But instead of waiting for calls from an agent or manager, they’ve put their services up for bid on Ebay. “Desperation,” says ...