And you thought Amazon just sold books
Amazon appears to have diversified a little over the years, there was time when it was books and more books, this it where they made their name and money, but as with every successful internet business, it has to be organic and grow according to the market that they are serving, clearly Amazons customers desire [...]
January 3, 2008So what did you buy on eBay?
The online auction house eBay sell millions of items, most are useful everyday items, but occasionally there are some really weird and wonderful items, here are just a few:
A woman from Florida sold her grilled cheese sandwich that appeared to have the face of the Virgin Mary upon it. The item was purchased by [...]
December 27, 2007Hammonds crash car for sale on eBay
For anyone who ever wondered what happened to the Vampire Jet car that Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond had his now famous crash which nearly killed him while driving at nearly three hundred miles per hour?
Well this car is currently being stored in a warehouse just north of London, and has been there since the [...]
Customer services the Amazon way
Imagine someone who enters an auction sale on Amazon only to find that the item which happens to be a laptop is no longer available and so proceeded to complain and making even mentioning that the laptops had been taken by their staff etc.
In reply Amazon begin to tear strips off the guy who happened [...]
Is eBay going to be banned in France?
If there is one business that demonstrates how success can be achieved on the internet then eBay has to be the one, and yet recently there has been a series of high level attacks on the business and this one in France is just another attempt to get eBay to sort its act out.
The French [...]
Skin covered book up for auction
A rare and somewhat unique book is going to be auctioned away at Wilkinson’s Auctioneers in Doncaster. Despite the almost grotesque nature of the book covering, it is an important book, the skin is believed to be that of one of the conspirators from the famous gunpowder plot in 1605, and in those days it [...]