A lightbox is a mighty handy tool. It allows amateurs to take studio-quality pics of little gadgets and whatnots. Normally these kits are kind of pricey, but not today! (really, the deal ends today)
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by Matt Burns on June 18, 2009
by Matt Burns on May 7, 2009
You just never know what you’re going to get when buying wares off eBay. You could be purchasing a box of rocks or a used government hard drive that still has security polices, blueprints of facilities, and government employee’s social security numbers. You just never know, eh?
Similar data was recently found on drives that where scrutinized for sensitive data purchased by three universities. Of the 300 used disks purchased in this test, 34% had personal, commercial, and government info on them. One drive even had the test launch procedures of Lockheed Martin’s THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defence) ground to air missile defense system used to shoot down Scud missiles in Iraq. (pictured)
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by Dave Freeman on May 6, 2009
When eBay started to come into the mainstream consciousness, the archaeological community was worried. They predicted that an online marketplace like eBay would make it incredibly easy for people trying to traffic in stolen antiquities. But one archaeologist thinks it’s had just the opposite effect.
by Matt Burns on April 28, 2009
Want a Zune? Actually, do you want a cheap media player ’cause they don’t get much less expensive than this. Sure, this model is the last generation, but you still get all the goodies of the new models. The player is available via eBay through the Best Buy Outlet so you can purchase with confidence. Oh, and the shipping is free.
by Dave Freeman on April 16, 2009
If you consider yourself to be a Final Fantasy fan, this one is for you. Awarded as the grand prize for a cosplay competition, it’s a custom PC with the artwork from the Chains of Promathia expansion printed directly on the side panels. Can you say “chick magnet”?
by Dave Freeman on April 9, 2009
Some people use eBay for what it was originally intended for. Case in point, a limited edition set of 8 Star Trek pez dispensers. If you want one (and you know you do) you can pick it up for about $17 plus shipping until the end of the month.
by Doug Aamoth on March 27, 2009
If you love your Canon EOS 5D Mark II with EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM – and I mean really love it – why not get yourself a miniature replica of it that doubles as a 4GB USB drive?
by Nicholas Deleon on March 11, 2009
The Illuminati are real, and have removed that proto-iPhone auction from eBay. The auction had been live for a few days before Apple contacted eBay, shutting the auction down before the proto-iPhone made it “out there.” The video was also pulled from YouTube.
by Matt Burns on January 28, 2009
Attention camera fanatics, ebay has a listing for you. The Paillard Bolex H8 Military Gun was apparently used by a Vietnam war reporter and survived. Wartime details about the equipment isn’t listed but just think of the history this camera might have recorded. The buyer gets a few more lens along the original documentation and a case too. But is it worth the $1,318 Buy It Now price? More pics after the jump.
by Matt Burns on January 22, 2009
What’s a girl to do when she’s moving to Amsterdam and can’t bring her Town Car with her? Sell it on eBay with help from her daddy’s digital camera and her mothers genes. What else? After all, how the hell else are you going to sell a gigantic, V8 Lincoln from the Bush Sr.’s term? We just wanna know one thing though: Can herpes survive on leather seats? More NSFW pics after the jump.
by Devin Coldewey on January 19, 2009
It’s about time for eBay to reveal its fourth quarter income, revenues and all that to investors, and no one is expecting anything but bad news. The company’s revenue, despite increasing competition from every angle, has grown for ten years straight, but it looks like that simply wasn’t sustainable lately, and they’re going to post a decline in income. eBay is philosophical about it, however, and knew that it was coming, so hopefully their investors are prepared (or have left already).
by Peter Ha on January 14, 2009
Oh. My. Gawd. If I only had $5 grand lying around I might consider blowing it on this. One mospeada30 has put up what appears to be the entire G1 collection of Transformers action figures. That includes all action figures from 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, and most of 1988, according to the seller. They’re obviously not in mint condition, but at least a vast majority of them are there and intact. The current bid is $4,250 with 4.5 days left. This sh*t is b-a-n-a-n-a-s!
by Michael Arrington on December 8, 2008
by Doug Aamoth on November 21, 2008
How’s this for ingenuity? USA! USA! USA! In what can only be described as the ultimate in convergence devices, some guy on eBay is selling a Wii with a Nintendo 64 cartridge slot that actually plays real games. What’s most impressive is that the whole thing looks pretty natural, with the slight exception of the side panel jutting outwards a bit to make room for the N64 controller port. It’d be a nice touch if the thing actually played Wii games, too, but alas, it’s just an N64 stuffed into a Wii console’s shell.
Take note, Nintendo: when you release Wii HD or whatever it’ll be called, please include a cartridge slot with various adapters for NES, Super NES, and N64 games.
Wii 64 Nintendo Wii 64 console! Working! ONE OF A KIND! [eBay via NWFB]
by John Biggs on November 4, 2008
Good news! You can now buy OpenTech’s website, good2beopen.com (!!!) and assets for $52,000. But if you’re sneaky, you can start bidding at about $35,000 and rock out when the bidding ends in seven days. Looks like no one decided to bite in August when they tried to sell themselves the first time.
As you know Open Tech has been up for sale on the Open Tech Site. (good2beopen.com) if you go to the Open Tech Site you will see that it says we have posted an PayPal verified Secure eBay listing. Hello, the company Open Tech is still up for sale, but know on ebay. The items included in the price are:
-Sole ownership of the Open Tech Name
-The Open Tech Website and Web servers
-Trade Secrets for the Open Tech Home & XT
-Press Contacts -Corporate documents including logos
*The only Physical items that will be sent are Corporate documents and Legal Paperwork. And a USB Flash drive that contains all company information. (Logos,Pictures,Web Server Information)
A legal contract will be sent to the purchaser of Open Tech which has been signed off by the Owner of Open tech allowing full ownership of Opentech.
by John Biggs on October 22, 2008
I’ll say it once and I’ll say it again: eBay has reached its nadir. The once might giant is now facing competition not only from Craigslist but from online forums and shops where experts in their field, be it photography equipment to watches, are buying and selling to an informed audience. In short the economy of ignorance that drives most auctions is almost dead and everyone from Joe the Plumber to an auction-master at Christie’s knows - or can find out - the true price of an item online.
That said, eBay is now facing a revolt by its power sellers due to changes in the feedback policy. The policy changes are a bit convoluted. Writes BizWeek:
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by Nicholas Deleon on September 30, 2008
Some clumsy Briton at MI6 has lost a Nikon digital camera that’s filled to the brim with all sorts of sensitive information, including info on al-Qaeda. What’s worse, not that losing the camera isn’t bad enough, but that it was sold on eBay.
Yup, the missing Nikon is loaded with info on al-Qaeda, including names, finger prints and academic records.
Oh, and the camera was sold for the low, low price of £17, or just under $31.
At right, the only James Bond that matters.
by Matt Burns on September 17, 2008
Somewhere in our crazy world, a true BlackBerry fanboy spent 17 large for a pre-release BlackBerry Javelin. Either there is something shady going on here and the shipping box is packaged with baby mink fur, or actually, someone wants the latest non-3G BlackBerry Javelin. Sure, word is the phone does have WiFi and GPS, along with a speedy 512 MHz CPU and a HVGA+ screen, but who would spend more than a Toyota Scion for a phone?
Follow the jump for better uses of $17k than spending it on a BlackBerry.
by Matt Burns on August 25, 2008
Selling a lot of small items via the 1998 internet sensation eBay? How about ditching that full-size tape gun and spend $2 bucks for this little guy. It uses Scotch tape refills but works the same way as its monstrous brethren. Still, sending a small box via UPS taped up with just masking tape might not be the best shipping technique. Anyways, the Micro Tape Gun is $2 and available at Harbor Freight.
by Devin Coldewey on July 24, 2008
Oh, Back to the Future. It was because of you that during the run-up to the revealing of the Segway, I thought it was going to be a hoverboard. It was because of you that I was so bitterly disappointed. But your uppance has come! Your most precious wooden prop will be mine — for the paltry cost of only $30,000.
No, it doesn’t hover, but it’s in excellent condition. I actually may save my money for when that jacket he’s wearing hits eBay. I bet it would drive the ladies nuts. [via Geekologie]
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