Full FeedAuction site Swoopo turns away from dark side
You’ve seen the advertisements, “Win this iPod touch for $4.19” or “the hammer fell on this MacBook for just $15.23.” These temptingly good offers are brought to you by Swoopo, an auction site of sorts that has been shown a lot of hate by our commenters. My post back in… Continue Reading »
Ditch your lame .com for these
Hate your dot com you were forced into taking? Have your e-mails to yourname.com gone unanswered, clearly showing they’ve no intention of closing up shop, even if all they do is put up stupid vacation photos? Yeah, me too. But there is hope for us domain-challenged individuals: an auction on… Continue Reading »
Pay to bid? Meet swoopo.com
New to the US market is swoopo.com an auction site, but not one like you know and hate love like eBay. No, swoopo is a very different and interesting concept. The price you pay is the cost of bidding plus the ending final price. Confused? Each bid costs $1. Yes,… Continue Reading »
German authorities give baby back to mom who put him on eBay
A woman who earlier tried to sell her baby on eBay was reunited with the infant after being investigated by German authorities. The police were alerted after several people called to complain about the eBay auction offering the 8 month old because he “cries too much,” the opening bid was… Continue Reading »
One ROFLaptop Per Child, a truly geeky XO laptop
A truly one of a kind XO Laptop is currently up for auction with all the proceeds going back to OLPC. The XO Laptop was signed by a collection of geeks and internet celebrities as they wandered around the recent ROFLCon event. The XO has been dubbed the “One ROFLaptop… Continue Reading »
Anybody up for another pizza domain auction? 1-pizza.com is up for grabs
If you envied Chris Clark while reading our previous post on the profit he made from selling his pizza.com for $2.6 million after keeping it alive for 14 years, well here comes another domain name up for bid at eBay, 1-pizza.com. There are many reason why 1-pizza.com would be a… Continue Reading »
Go on eBay, and this guy’s life can be yours
Ian Usher, a 44-year old resident of Perth, Australia who’s originally from Darlington, England, is doing a big spring cleaning. For one week on eBay starting on June 22, he will auction off every part of his current life, from his house and all of its contents, even going as… Continue Reading »
FCC announce 700mhz auction results; Verizon takes top honors with AT&T a close second
We have been on the edge of our seats waiting for the winners announcement and the FCC has finally released the details. With little surprise the top two US carriers Verizon and AT&T have taken top honors. Verizon had scooped the top position, but AT&T also has some pretty decent… Continue Reading »
Optimus Maximus eBay auction has ended, keyboard sells for incredible price
Remember that Optimus Maximus keyboard auction we showed you a little while back, well the auction has ended, keyboard has sold and we can only imagine the seller was very pleased. With a final bid of $2,750 it has sold for quite a bit over the regular retail price of… Continue Reading »
eBay lowers fees to salvage waning growth
Hoping to recover from its sluggish growth and support low-cost sellers, online auction giant eBay will implement a new pricing structure and tighter seller standards effective February 20, 2008 in the U.S. One of the notable changes is the cutback on the cost of listing new items by 25% for… Continue Reading »
Experience what it’s like to download at unlimited speeds from a massive collection of over 800 Terabytes of user uploads. You’ll max out your Internet connection downloading a file in… Continue Reading »
Palm Pre Information & Updates
Palm just introduced their next-gen smartphone, the Palm Pre, and next-gen operating system, Palm webOS. Gadgetell's got the latest Pre and webOS information and news for you right here.
