Bye E-BAY...

In my earlier posts, I noted that Ebay is probably one of the first of its kind to use the internet to build a multi million company based on buying and selling anything under the sun. I must admit that it is fun to window shop and sooner or later buy something from ebay. All their things are very interesting and can really make you buy even if you do not intend to.

I think, we should all take a hard look at ebay and its success story and how it used different technologies to promote its company.

As I say goodbye to ebay---let me leave you a video about ebay in the view of someone we all respect......http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYokLWfqbaU.......

Going that EXTRA-MILE ---Ebay Style

What I like about E-Bay is that it goes beyond the buying and selling of goods. It has incorporated in its website a community that goes beyond what Ebay is really about. By clicking on this link, http://hub.ebay.com/community one can learn more about the added vision and goals of Ebay, which is saving the environment and giving an entire community a way to interact with each other. Anyone can get involved with its charity and environmental programs. It also promotes links to the american Red Cross and cancer society of America.

My criteria for a successful website (as I have recommended in my website evaluation paper )is to have an environmental section and a community base program section to promote something that is very helpful to our world today.

So GOOD JOB E-bay!

KNOWING Syracuse and Syracuse University THRU EBAY

There is so much more to Syracuse and Syracuse University than what we just see around campus or when we go downtown. There are alot of items being sold at e-bay like old pictures of SU and Syracuse City that are very interesting. People are selling old pictures of the women's gym, football and basketball tickets in the 1970's, pictures from the 1913's graduation photo and all sort of things that make the mind imagine how historical and rich SU is. Downtown Syracuse had seen better days but if you look at the old pictures of Syracuse downtown buildings being sold at E-bay, you will know that it had a very rich and historical beginnings.

Even if you do not want to buy anything, and maybe just look around ebay on topics anything under the sun, one can LEARN about a lot of things that a common library or even a museum cannot offer.

Enjoy poking around E-Bay!

On-line entrepreneurship.

Who doesn't want to have their own business? On-line entrepreneurship as espoused by e-bay is a good point to start of what could be a very profitable career. http://www.entrepreneur.com/startingabusiness/insuringyourbusiness/article159930.html. I think everyone likes to have a job or "on the side" job that they can just do from the comforts of their home. E-bay is conducting trainings and learnings that will make this dream job come true for most people. Buying and selling is the basic tool that makes businesses what they are outside and inside the internet world. From-ebay, we would know what the pulse of the world is---what they usually buy and what they usually sell.http://www.articlesbase.com/internet-articles/learn-what-sells-on-ebay-1273822.html. E-bay has millions of clients and what better way of finding what the latest trend is than looking at what the client of ebay is doing.

Who is the next Pierre Omidyar???

On September 4, 1995, Labor Day---Ebay was launched by little known Pierre Omidyar because he wanted to sell his wife's Pez candy dispensers in the Bay Area.
After reading Pierre Omidyar's profile and how he started out...I think everyone can learn from him. We have been talking alot about asynchronus technologies and this guy just got $10 billion richer by using these new technologies to his benefit. There are more technologies coming out each year and I am just wondering who will be the next Pierre Omidyar. Its not far fetched that it could come out of our class! E-bay has changed people's lives around the world, in a way that Pierre cound not have imagined. Learning how to blog, evaluate websites and literally having our class on the web and not on-the traditional classroom settings is becoming the wave of the future and knowing a person such as Mr. Omidyar just fortifies my belief that we should not be afraid of on-line learning and other new technologies coming our way, because sooner or later we can make these technologies work for us...just like Mr. Omidyar did. http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/omi0bio-1

E-BAY - more than meets the eye!

Hey everyone,

I have discovered that there is more to E-bay than I thought. Retirees are making a living by being sellers at e-bay and Ms Miriam Otto is one of the many teachers that are conducting on-line classes (for retirees mostly), that teaches people how to sell well at e-bay. Please read more about this story here http://www.auctiva.com/edu/entry.aspx?id=Auctiva-User-is-eBay. Definitely one of the unique benefits of asychronus technology!

Ebay has transformed itself from being just a shopping site, into a place that can generate "jobs."

Hello groupmates, Im sorry for this late post but I am going to try to post earlier next time. Well, my topic is e-bay and I am pretty sure that everyone has tried to do some shopping at ebay before or atleast have surfed their webiste. I know its pretty popular here in the US...but not that popular where I come from. Anyway, Im going to be honest and say that Ive never bought anything from ebay or surfed it before hahah. What I did find out about ebay though is that alot of people are complaining about the products that they have bought form the place. In a link that I have found concerning ebay complaints http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/01/ebay_fraud.html, there are alot of issues concerning ebay and how it protects their consumers.

On-line shopping is the wave of the future, I have ordered books from amazon.com and furniture for my apartment here in syracuse at different sites that offer free shipping and other customer relaed promos. Im pretty satisfied with how the products that I did buy from them. But, I am positive that other customers have complaints as well. Customer complaints whether you buy it on-line or you buy it at the store itself, will happen...and I found a link that will help us be protected when choosing an on-line shopping site like ebay.http://http://www.privacyrights.org/fs/fs23-shopping.htm

Well, happy shopping at ebay or other on-line shopping sites.....hopefully by next week, I will be able to post something really substantial concerning ebay----once I surf it inside and out!

Thanks