eBay Lowers Sellers Fees For Fixed-Price Items

eBay is lowering its fees U.S. sellers on its site pay to list fixed-price items in an effort to attract new buyers and better compete with rivals like Amazon.com.Sellers will now pay a flat rate of 35 cents for a 30-day listed period, up from the previous seven-day standard. Sellers will be able to list multiple quantities of the same item for a single 35-cent…

Hard Times For Vista

In an earlier article about Apple's domination of the American Customer Service Index (ACSI), it was touched upon that the overall dissatisfaction with Windows Vista may have been a key factor in propelling Apple up the charts. I have not seen a Taiwanese equivalent to the ACSI, but it is pretty evident that some people in Taiwan aren't real fond of Vista either.

Local Media Sites Good For Advertisers

Local media sites have an advantage when it comes to producing results for advertisers, according to a new report by the Online Publishers Association (OPA).The study finds that consumers trust advertising on local newspaper, magazine and television Websites, and are likely to take action after viewing ads on these sites.Newspaper Web sites rank first, with 46 percent of consumers taking action, such as making a…

Girls Gone Wild Founder Takes Case To The Web

Girls Gone Wild peddler and CEO of Mantra Films, Joe Francis, has filed a $300 million lawsuit against a federal judge alleging illegal imprisonment and backroom dealings with his former law partners. In conjunction with the lawsuit, Francis is pleading his case with the public at large via Web video, urging the public to write Congress to have Judge Richard Smoak removed from the bench.

Bigfoot Hoaxers On The Lamb

In the end it was pride that kept me from posting about the search, online and off, for Bigfoot last week; pride in my own skepticism won out over the hope to see a myth proved. And sure enough, all that jazz about a couple of Georgia boys stumbling onto a Bigfoot corpse last week […]