Normally, Insertion Fees are non-refundable. However, if your listing ends without a winning buyer or results in an Unpaid Item (UPI), you may qualify for a credit by relisting the item. If the item sells the second time, eBay will refund the Insertion Fee for the relisting.
To relist an item, sign in to eBay, go to the item page for the ended listing, and click on "relist your item". You can also go to other places, such as the Unsold Items view of My eBay, and click on the "Relist" link for the item. (Source: eBay Help)
Saturday, May 28, 2005
Sunday, May 15, 2005
Stolen PaceMaker sold on eBay
This surely should push eBay to be more strict with medical devices.
It was reported by Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune that Medtronic Inc., based in Minneapolis, recently discovered that one of its pacemakers was stolen from a California hospital, sold on eBay and then implanted in an Arizona man.
This surfaced when when police in Sacramento, Calif., arrested a 21-year-old woman early March on an embezzlement charge. Amber Bowen, a nurse's aide at Sutter Memorial Hospital in Sacramento, also ran an Internet medical supply business on the side called Body Fantasy Inc., according to Sacramento police.
Bowen allegedly stole two Medtronic pacemakers from the hospital in October 2004 and then posted them for sale on eBay. Typically, a pacemaker costs about $6,000, but Bowen sold them for $255 each, police said.
The report said the stolen pacemakers were bought by Greg Etts, a purchasing manager for a large cardiac practice based in the Phoenix area called Advanced Cardiac Specialists, according to a report issued by the Arizona Medical Board. Etts reportedly had admitted to board officials that he knew the pacemakers were stolen when he bought them and that he often purchased devices on eBay.
Friday, May 13, 2005
Popemobile Seller Sues eBay: Price not enough
Benjamin Halbe, the jobless German who sold the the VW Golf once owned by Pope Benedict XVI (now known as the PopeMobile) for £130,000 GoldenPalace.com is suing eBay because he says it's not enough.
Halbe, 21, from Olpe near Cologne, bought the car from a private dealer for over £6,000 just six months before Pope Benedict took the helm in Vatican.
They would be investigating the last few hours where there were "proven bidders who wanted to offer more but whose bids for higher amounts for unknown reasons were not registered on the eBay site".
Lawyer Juergen Langer from the firm has called on eBay to explain the problems. eBay in Germany admitted the car had been the most popular item ever to have been sold on its pages.
Tuesday, May 10, 2005
North Dakota boy auctioned by friend on eBay; bid reached $3,000
In North Dakota, a prank by two teenagers caught the attention of the principal at North Dakota's Hazen High.
Of of them put the other on sale on eBay, but eBay removed the auction when the bidding reached $3,300. Since sale of body parts on eBay is illegal, and so therefore is the sale of a whole live body.
The boys lost their computer privileges at school (yes, they used the school computers) but Dana Mattheis, the mother of the boy being "sold" on e-Bay, said she thinks the prank was funny. Mattheis said there was nothing inappropriate in the eBay ad.But that's not how Principal Ed Boger saw it.
Of of them put the other on sale on eBay, but eBay removed the auction when the bidding reached $3,300. Since sale of body parts on eBay is illegal, and so therefore is the sale of a whole live body.
The boys lost their computer privileges at school (yes, they used the school computers) but Dana Mattheis, the mother of the boy being "sold" on e-Bay, said she thinks the prank was funny. Mattheis said there was nothing inappropriate in the eBay ad.But that's not how Principal Ed Boger saw it.
Sunday, May 08, 2005
Golden Palace buys Pope mobile Volkswagen
The online casino GoldenPalace.com known for buying unusual items at outrageous prices has won an eBay auction for Pope Benedict XVI's previously owned 1999 Volkswagen Golf, bidding Euro 188,938.88 (approx. $244,590.83 USD).
Pope Benedict XVI (then Cardinal Josef Ratzinger) sold the six-year-old VW Golf to a private individual a few months he become pope. The new owner subsequently posted the car on eBay, and the auction reportedly shattered eBay records by receiving over 8.5 million visitors to its auction page.
GoldenPalace CEO Richard Row: "We have amassed a collection of what many consider to be holy artifacts. It seems only natural to get a blessed vehicle to carry these items. We are planning to showcase our acquisitions by bringing them on tour and allowing people to enjoy the experience of sitting in the divine car, in an effort to raise as much money for charity as possible."
Just recently Golden Palace shelled out $5,001 to buy Britney Spears' alleged home pregnancy test. But not on eBay. It was being peddled by Ottawa radio station Hot 89.9, which claims the test was retrieved from the trash inside Spears' Los Angeles hotel room months ago.
Pope Benedict XVI (then Cardinal Josef Ratzinger) sold the six-year-old VW Golf to a private individual a few months he become pope. The new owner subsequently posted the car on eBay, and the auction reportedly shattered eBay records by receiving over 8.5 million visitors to its auction page.
GoldenPalace CEO Richard Row: "We have amassed a collection of what many consider to be holy artifacts. It seems only natural to get a blessed vehicle to carry these items. We are planning to showcase our acquisitions by bringing them on tour and allowing people to enjoy the experience of sitting in the divine car, in an effort to raise as much money for charity as possible."
Just recently Golden Palace shelled out $5,001 to buy Britney Spears' alleged home pregnancy test. But not on eBay. It was being peddled by Ottawa radio station Hot 89.9, which claims the test was retrieved from the trash inside Spears' Los Angeles hotel room months ago.
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