The Stop Online Piracy Act in the US is getting ever more publicity with GoDaddy one of the high profile companies to suffer from supporting it as we wrote a couple of days ago.  In our previous article Martin summed up SOPA very effectively. If you are living in the United States, you should have [...]

Categories: Online Services

The photos that users upload to eBay are used to populate the search results and category listings. The eBay auction platform automatically displays thumbnail versions of the uploaded photos on search and category pages instead of the, often larger, versions of the photo uploaded by the eBay user. While that may not be a problem [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome

Users who buy regularly on the popular auction website eBay know that it is a good practice to check a seller’s feedback before making purchases. Every buyer on eBay is allowed to leave feedback about transactions on the website, which can act as an indicator of a seller’s trustworthiness. The core problem with the default [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Avira has published a top list of brands that experienced the most phishing attacks in 2009. The top 3 brands according to their chart are PayPal with 32205 threats followed by Chase Bank with 25901 threats and eBay with 18738 threats. Each threat in this case refers to a unique Internet address that was being [...]

Categories: Security, The Web

Phishing is still one of the biggest security threats that users face on the Internet. It basically means that criminals are sending emails to users that make them believe they are coming from an email sender that they can trust. Most phishing emails pose as emails from financial organizations like PayPal or banks and ask [...]

Categories: Email, Security

eBay, struggling to compete with the likes of Amazon.com recently announced a new fee structure in hopes to attract new sellers. Many sellers who have previously left eBay have complained that the fees were too high and when something doesn’t sell, it costs more to list on eBay than the money it brings in. According [...]

Categories: Online Services

Users worldwide use the auction platform eBay to buy and sell items. Several statistics are provided by eBay in the My eBay area of the website where data is available for the past 60 days. Data past that period cannot be retrieved on the eBay website at all which can be problematic for businesses and [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

The eBay auction platform is still the most popular online auction system despite its decline from a friendly neighborhood auction site to a site driven by commercial auctions. If users think online auctions they tend to think eBay. Auctions can be monitored on the eBay website easily with the disadvantage that changes are only reported [...]

Categories: Linux, Mac, Software, Windows

Pretty much everyone uses eBay, but it is often frustrating when you’re suddenly outbid on a rare or unique item. There are a number of strategies one can use to maximise the amount of auctions won. Sniping is a practice that has been used for years and years. Originally this was a manual process, where [...]

Categories: The Web, Tutorials Basic