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How to Buy, Sell, and Profit on eBay is a book by Adam Ginsberg about how to start a business selling things on the online marketplace and auction website eBay. [1]
Billpoint was founded in 1998 by Sang Young Lee, Hope Chen, Will Chen, Jason May, Ian Flint and Jay Shen, with headquarter in Redwood City, California.The company obtained venture funding from Sequoia Capital in February 1999, [2] and later that year was purchased by eBay; its website was taken offline while integration into eBay's auction service took place.
eBay Enterprise, Inc. (formerly GSI Commerce, Inc.) was a multinational e-commerce corporation that specialized in creating, developing and running online shopping sites for brick and mortar brands and retailers.
In November 2017, a 1996 Honda Accord with 141,095 miles was listed on eBay for US$499 by producer Max Lanman on behalf of his girlfriend. Lanman made a video [18] to help sell the car, which went viral, helping the bids rise up to $150,000 before eBay accidentally removed the listing. [19] It was once again relisted and removed by accident.
Auction sniping (also called bid sniping) is the practice, in a timed online auction, of placing a bid likely to exceed the current highest bid (which may be hidden) as late as possible—usually seconds before the end of the auction—giving other bidders no time to outbid the sniper.
eBay v. Bidder's Edge, 100 F. Supp. 2d 1058 (N.D. Cal. 2000), was a leading case applying the trespass to chattels doctrine to online activities. [1] [2] In 2000, eBay, an online auction company, successfully used the 'trespass to chattels' theory to obtain a preliminary injunction preventing Bidder's Edge, an auction data aggregator, from using a 'crawler' to gather data from eBay's website.
More generally, the solution set to an arbitrary collection E of relations (E i) (i varying in some index set I) for a collection of unknowns (), supposed to take values in respective spaces (), is the set S of all solutions to the relations E, where a solution () is a family of values (()) such that substituting () by () in the collection E makes all relations "true".
In contract bridge, various bidding systems have been devised to enable partners to describe their hands so that they may reach the optimum contract.Key to this process is that players evaluate and re-evaluate the trick-taking potential of their hands as the auction proceeds and additional information about partner's hand and the opponent's hands becomes available.