EBay users worried about fraud, take heart: Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University say they've invented data mining techniques that can detect online auction fraud before it happens. By looking at trading patterns among thousands of eBay sellers, the researchers say they can identify likely con artists and warn off potential bidders."We want to help people detect potential fraud before the fraud occurs," said research associate Duen Horng Chau, who developed NetProbe with professor Christos Faloutsos, undergraduate student Samuel Wang and graduate student Shashank Pandit.
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Wednesday, December 13, 2006
White Xmas up for grabs on eBay
A British company is offering a white Christmas on eBay to raise money for charity.
The winner of the auction will receive a 10-tonne lorry load of snow on Christmas Eve.
The offer also includes a decorated Christmas tree, a front door wreath and Christmas lights, reports the Mirror.
The SNO!zone company, which runs three indoor ski slopes, is behind the auction.
Read more http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2115025.html
The winner of the auction will receive a 10-tonne lorry load of snow on Christmas Eve.
The offer also includes a decorated Christmas tree, a front door wreath and Christmas lights, reports the Mirror.
The SNO!zone company, which runs three indoor ski slopes, is behind the auction.
Read more http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2115025.html
Velvet Underground rarity sells on eBay for whopping $155,000
An Oakland record store accepted a winning bid last weekend of more than $155,000 for an acetate copy of the unreleased first album by the Velvet Underground. What is even more amazing is that the record-setting auction price was paid for a discarded album bought by a collector for 75 cents in a yard sale.
Warren Hill of Montreal picked up the album with the hand-written label at a street sale in New York's Chelsea neighborhood. He paid 75 cents in May 2002. Hill later took the record to friend and fellow record collector Eric Isaacson of Portland, Ore., for the verification. Isaacson has written his account of the find in the current edition of the magazine for record collectors, Goldmine.
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Warren Hill of Montreal picked up the album with the hand-written label at a street sale in New York's Chelsea neighborhood. He paid 75 cents in May 2002. Hill later took the record to friend and fellow record collector Eric Isaacson of Portland, Ore., for the verification. Isaacson has written his account of the find in the current edition of the magazine for record collectors, Goldmine.
Read on http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/12/12/MNGE5MTPDU1.DTL
Gift wrap your eBay motor
If you're feeling flush this Christmas then buy a lucky loved one their dream car on eBay Motors - and blow another £400 having it gift wrapped like something from an extra-cheesy Richard Curtis film.
The service is provided by wrapping specialists (can't be many of those) Wrapology. Their team gift wrap most things, from cars to helicopters, or offer the raw materials - ribbon, bow and 150 metres of paper - with a do it yourself guide.
Apparently the first customer was a banker who, in a touching gesture, had paper and ribbon put on the Ferrari 360 he bought his girlfriend. Seems a little eccentric, we'd rather hop in and drive off without ripping through £400 of decorations, but eBay and Wrapology are expecting high demand for their service over the festive period.
The service is provided by wrapping specialists (can't be many of those) Wrapology. Their team gift wrap most things, from cars to helicopters, or offer the raw materials - ribbon, bow and 150 metres of paper - with a do it yourself guide.
Apparently the first customer was a banker who, in a touching gesture, had paper and ribbon put on the Ferrari 360 he bought his girlfriend. Seems a little eccentric, we'd rather hop in and drive off without ripping through £400 of decorations, but eBay and Wrapology are expecting high demand for their service over the festive period.
Disney birthplace for sale on eBay
CHICAGO - As cultural treasures go, the house is a Mickey Mouse job. And the way it's being sold is a little goofy.
But there it is on the eBay Internet auction site, for Dumbos or Cinderella investors to bid on: the two-story home where Walt Disney was born 105 years ago on Chicago's Northwest Side.
The 4-bedroom frame house at 2156 N. Tripp Ave. was posted Thursday by owners Radoje and Barbara Popovic. The auction is to last 30 days, and bidding starts at $280,000 for the home, built in 1893 by Disney's father Elias Disney.
That's slightly above the median price for a house of that size and age in the working-class neighborhood of Hermosa, industry data shows.
Read more http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/living/16219766.htm
But there it is on the eBay Internet auction site, for Dumbos or Cinderella investors to bid on: the two-story home where Walt Disney was born 105 years ago on Chicago's Northwest Side.
The 4-bedroom frame house at 2156 N. Tripp Ave. was posted Thursday by owners Radoje and Barbara Popovic. The auction is to last 30 days, and bidding starts at $280,000 for the home, built in 1893 by Disney's father Elias Disney.
That's slightly above the median price for a house of that size and age in the working-class neighborhood of Hermosa, industry data shows.
Read more http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/living/16219766.htm
eBay Scam Involves Second-Chance Offers
Many of us click onto eBay to shop, but even eBay veterans don't know about the biggest scam on the Internet involving the giant online auction site, according to consumer reporter John Matarese.
In this week's Don't Waste Your Money, Matarese warned that the scam is victimizing hundreds of people because it is easy to fall for.
"I fell for it, and I can't believe I did ... because I'm pretty savvy on the computer," said Ramona Combs, a scam victim.
Combs is a veteran eBayer, and she's now the latest victim of an online scam targeting its members.
Read on http://www.newsnet5.com/money/10519307/detail.html
In this week's Don't Waste Your Money, Matarese warned that the scam is victimizing hundreds of people because it is easy to fall for.
"I fell for it, and I can't believe I did ... because I'm pretty savvy on the computer," said Ramona Combs, a scam victim.
Combs is a veteran eBayer, and she's now the latest victim of an online scam targeting its members.
Read on http://www.newsnet5.com/money/10519307/detail.html
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