Archive for the ‘EBay’ Category
Monday, November 15th, 2010
Gresham's Law now has small business backing.
There's a fair bit of activity on eBay buying and selling 95% copper cents, and the coin sorters to distinguish them from the newer zinc variety. Why the interest, you might ask? It's the copper content of the cents that's interesting. These high-copper cents, ...
Posted in Cash, Coins, EBay, Economy | 2 Comments »
Saturday, July 24th, 2010
I don't remember what prompted me to poke around on eBay to check for gift cards. I do remember that there had been some restrictions placed on gift card sales on eBay because of rising occurrence of fraudulent activity.
However, I did find a new practice that I found a little ...
Posted in Deals and Steals, EBay, Shopping | 3 Comments »
Friday, June 19th, 2009
A fairly well-traveled post of mine, "Why PayPal makes it a chore to pay by credit card," needs an update.
I bought some replacement batteries for our wireless phones off of eBay last night (how I can get two of them from Hong Kong, shipped, for under $6, I'll never know) ...
Posted in Banking, EBay, Shopping | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
And if you bid on Swoopo.com, please stop. Even if you've won an auction. I can just about guarantee you'll pay back every cent you saved on that one auction win, plus a lot more.
Swoopo bills itself as an auction site, but the auctions are little more than giant, real-time, ...
Posted in Deals and Steals, EBay | 23 Comments »
