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Town Sold On eBay Not Really Sold

Town Sold On eBay Not Really Sold 12/29/2003 04:51 AM
Earlier this month, I wrote about how it's become popular to use eBay as not just a buying and selling platform, but also as a PR platform for such things as selling towns - because you're almost guaranteed to get press coverage for selling something weird. Of course, it looks like there might also be a downside. Last year, a town in California received a ton of press for being put up on eBay, after conventional attempts to sell it had failed. That press coverage helped push up interest in the town until someone "won" the town with a bid of $1.8 million. Of course, as we pointed out at the time, with many such high profile auctions, the top bid is likely to be bogus. A few months after the original auction, it was reported that the sale still hadn't been finalized. Now, exactly a year after the original eBay auction happened, the folks who "own" the town are admitting that the buyer disappeared and never sent a check. Even worse, the sellers then went down the list of everyone else who bid on the town and failed to find a single legitimate buyer. Thus, the town is back up for sale - but not on eBay and at half the price of what they "sold" it for last year.

Town Sold On eBay Finally Sold For
Real... But Not On eBay

Town Sold On eBay Finally Sold For
Real... But Not On eBay 05/21/2004 02:35 AM
Back in 2002 there was a tremendous amount of hype when Bridgeville, the small (mostly deserted) California town was put up for sale on eBay. It eventually sold in an auction for $1.8 million - and got a tremendous amount of press attention. The only problem: the $1.8 million bid was a hoax. A whole year went by and the owners of the "town" sheepishly admitted that the buyer (and his money) never showed up. Now, however, the town has been sold again - but not on eBay, and back down at its original asking price of $700,000. Even with the failure of the actual sale to go through, though, people still remember that you can "sell a town on eBay," contributing to the use of eBay as a PR platform beyond just its ability to match buyers and sellers.

I've sold out!

I've sold out! 02/10/2004 02:44 AM

What can I say - the lure of the mighty dollar proved too much. I've just made my first post to my new client-side scripting blog over at SitePoint, as a paid columnist.

I'll answer the most obvious question straight away: I'm not going to stop writing here. My SitePoint blog is a subject-focused blog covering client-side web development - CSS, Javascript, HTML and their role in modern web site creation. This blog will continue to host my thoughts on other subjects - mainly server-side stuff, but also general programming, web related rants and anything else that strikes my interest. Oh, and bashing Microsoft, naturally ;)

I'm a big fan of strictly subject-driven blogs, so it's going to be fun working on one right from the start. Lambda the Ultimate (programming languages), Column Two (content and knowledge management), the Daily Python-URL and Adrian Holovaty's online journalism blog are all great examples of blogs with a topical focus, and I hope to take my SitePoint blog in a similarly focused direction.

Incidentally, the blogging system at SitePoint has only just been launched and evidently there are still some issues to iron out. I know the site doesn't validate, and I hope to work with SitePoint to resolve some of the other markup and Javascript issues I've spotted. I hope to write up some of the problems and solutions on the blog itself in coming weeks.

The SSA Sold Me Out?

The SSA Sold Me Out? 01/18/2003 11:00 PM
I recent joined the Soaring Society of America (SSA) now that I'm flying again. Today I got an "offer" in the mail from Aviation Week and Space Technology (no link, for obvious reason). They'd like me to subscribe at a...

QVC UK Lightsaber SOLD OUT

QVC UK Lightsaber SOLD OUT 09/21/2004 12:48 PM
The Master Replicas 0.45 Obi-Wan Kenobi light saber, exclusive to QVC in the UK, is sadly sold out and is only available through their Waitlist scheme.

iPods Sold Out?

iPods Sold Out? 12/23/2003 11:33 PM
BBC News reports that the iPod is "flying off shop shelves" with demand clearly outstripping sales. Some British shops have been left to take post-...

Xbox 2 to be sold for $249-$299?

Xbox 2 to be sold for $249-$299? 04/13/2005 08:20 AM
Dvhardware.net - Wed Apr 13, 07:12 am GMT

Toys "R" Us Sold

Toys "R" Us Sold 06/24/2005 05:49 PM
Shareholders of the beleagured toy giant Toys "R" Us have voted yes to a buy-out from two private investment companies. You can read more at Toysrusinc.com.

Sold with security

Sold with security 05/25/2004 02:15 AM
USA Today May 25 2004 6:17AM GMT

Sold on a better life

Sold on a better life 07/11/2004 08:49 AM
Chicago Tribune Jul 11 2004 12:14PM GMT

Singingfish sold to AOL

Singingfish sold to AOL 11/18/2003 07:51 PM
In search advertising, users who conduct a keyword search on a site such as AOL, MSN or Google are led to a page that contains search results as well as a list ...

MP3.com assets sold

MP3.com assets sold 11/17/2003 06:56 AM
ZDNet UK Nov 17 2003 5:53AM ET

100,000,000 iTunes Sold

100,000,000 iTunes Sold 07/12/2004 07:39 AM

Kevin Britten of Hays, Kansas downloaded the 100 millionth song from iTunes Music Store, winning the 17-inch Powerbook, a 40GB iPod, and a 10,000 song gift certificate. I just want you to know, Kevin, that the Powerbook will probably give you herpes, and should be immediately quarantined in our labs.
Read - iTunes 100 Million [Apple]

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iTunes Giveaway, Including 10,000 Song Gift Certificate [Gizmodo]

Bloglines sold to AskJeeves

Bloglines sold to AskJeeves 02/07/2005 01:51 AM

And who said dot come 1.0 companies are dead?

Grea t to see one of the old horses come back to life.

Now we just gotta guess who will buy Flickr?

The house pool says soemthing like $15M-$20M - but others say they'll take the $8M being offered them by Accel. But Stewart and Caterina don't GET the $8M, that would go into the company. Welcome to the game.

$2.5 Billion in Wi-Fi Sold in 2003

$2.5 Billion in Wi-Fi Sold in 2003 02/10/2004 07:57 PM
News.com reports on Synergy Research Group's Wi-Fi sales report: Revenue for Wi-Fi was $2.5 billion last year, or 40 percent higher than the preceding year; it increased 55 percent in the fourth quarter of 2003 to $752 million (presumably over the previous quarter). Cisco, in the form of its Linksys acquisition and enterprise divisions, somewhat under a $1 billion of that revenue stream. Linksys, D-Link, NetGear, and Buffalo are the top four consumer sellers, with NetGear bumping Buffalo from the No. 3 position. Cisco, Symbol, Proxim, and 3Com are the top four enterprise companies. Reminder to all Wi-Fi companies: you're all competing against Cisco....

Commodore rights sold

Commodore rights sold 12/30/2004 02:48 PM
globetechnology.com Dec 30 2004 5:40PM GMT

Why IBM sold its PC business to Lenovo

Why IBM sold its PC business to Lenovo 01/01/2005 06:53 PM
Engadget Jan 1 2005 10:14PM GMT

Battlefront Scout Sold Out

Battlefront Scout Sold Out 09/25/2004 03:57 PM
Following up yesterday's report; we've received confirmation that StarWarsShop.com has indeed sold out of their semi-exclusive Battlefront Scout Troopers. Fans still looking to obtain this figure would do well to keep an eye on the LucasArts website. As previously mentioned in one of their newsletters, subscribers will likely get another shot at this figure. Thanks to all that wrote in, and to SWS.com for the info.

U.S. to EU on software patents: "We sold
out, you should too"

U.S. to EU on software patents: "We sold
out, you should too" 06/09/2004 10:26 AM
European free software advocates, Green Party activists, Socialists, economists, small business owners, and other radicals are working to keep the European Union from instituting U.S.-style software patents. But don't give up hope. The U.S. government and some of the biggest U.S. software vendors are working to bring those backward Europeans into the modern world, where software development can eventually be limited to responsible companies instead of being done by any-old-body with a computer and a good idea.

Cloned kitten sold for $50,000.

Cloned kitten sold for $50,000. 12/31/2004 04:55 PM
The Register: Clo ned kitten sold for $50,000.

It's not true - the Tribe has not been
sold

It's not true - the Tribe has not been
sold 04/09/2004 04:11 PM
In terActiveCorp Snaps Up Tribe.net?!? (Does Mark Pincus Know This?).

This has to be an error… Or perhaps an April Fool?

While rummaging through my newsfeed and tips today, I found the following quote from Mediapost.com in — New Ad Models Take Flight — with an intro by Adam Herman, and the sub-article in question — Social Networking Promises Value of Peer-to-Peer, Viral, Behavioral, Contextual, and Search — By Kate Kaye.

In which Kate Kaye says, and I quote:

Owned by TV mogul Barry Diller, InterActiveCorp has also snapped up Tribe.net, Match.com, and Evite.

HUH? Does Mark Pincus know that Barry Diller has “snapped up Tribe.net”?!?! I know that one of Barry Diller’s execs expressed an interest in the Tribe.net business model a while back — around the time of announcing InterActiveCorp’s plan to acquire ZeroDegrees. Does Kate Kaye have prescience? (-:= [The Social Software Weblog]

I can tell yah that as of last night - Tribe was not sold.

Computer with Chinese CPU just sold at
US$250

Computer with Chinese CPU just sold at
US$250 02/12/2004 05:46 AM
Peoples Daily Online Feb 12 2004 9:49AM GMT

McGraw Hill sold me out

McGraw Hill sold me out 04/16/2004 02:12 AM

Like everyone else on the internet, I get a fair amount of spam. I tend to keep my main work as clean as possible, while skipping over the spam in my lower-traffic personal account and cleaning it up every week or so.

While cleaning out the latest batch, I noticed that a number of undesirable emails had been delivered to an address which I had used as a "spam trap" - I had only used it once when signing up for a particular service. I ran a search for all messages sent to that address and found this charming missive, dated March 15th:

As a subscriber to or customer of certain products and services published by The McGraw-Hill Companies, The McGraw-Hill List Management Center's commitment to you is to keep you current, by email, on products and services from third party (non-McGraw-Hill) advertisers that might be of interest to you. Each email message will be preceded by the name of the company offering the product or service, so that you know the source and purpose of the email before opening it.

If you do not wish to receive these informative emails from The McGraw-Hill Companies List Management Center, please follow this link [-- link removed --]

You will be taken off of this list to receive email messages from these third party advertisers. It will not affect your status as a customer of or subscriber to any McGraw-Hill product or service in any manner.

They'd opted me in to their third party mailing list. Obviously I would have hit the "I don't want your disgusting spam" link if I had actually seen it, but the subject of the email was "++SPAM++ Special Offers" (the ++SPAM++ part was added by my University's spam filter) so naturally I had skipped straight over it assuming it was yet another piece of worthless spam. I guess that's almost ironic.

In the month since receiving that email, I've had 12 unwanted commercial emails sent to that address.

I'm usually very conscientious about ticking the "don't ever, ever spam me" box when I sign up for things. Maybe I was less vigilant than normal in this case, but I sincerely doubt it. The service I had originally signed up for was a free trial of Zinio. I just checked the registration form and it has two clearly labelled "you may send me junk" boxes, which I'm certain I would have unchecked. I can only conclude that they ignored my initial request, sent me an easily missed "we're about to spam you" message and proceeded to fill my inbox with garbage.

Maybe this kind of thing is covered by their privacy policy (which I can't access at the moment as their site appears to be unavailable). You know what? I didn't read their privacy policy. I don't read privacy policys. I don't read EULAs either - heck, I don't read anything that looks like it was written by a lawyer and is likely to BREAK IN TO CAPITAL LETTERS at any moment. I assumed that checking the "don't spam me" boxes was enough. Evidently my faith in basic human decency let me down.

McGraw Hill: I'm absolutely disgusted with you. Your behaviour in regards to bulk email sickens me, and I will never again knowingly purchase one of your products or support your business in any way.

Oh, and the final insult? They signed off their treacherous email with Thank you for being a loyal McGraw-Hill customer. Words fail me.

Cloned kitten sold for $50,000

Cloned kitten sold for $50,000 12/24/2004 01:12 PM
The everlasting cat?

UK Sage house sold

UK Sage house sold 05/25/2004 10:00 AM
CIBER buys Ascent Technology

Ask Jeeves to be sold for $1.85bn

Ask Jeeves to be sold for $1.85bn 03/22/2005 04:30 PM
Television to internet tycoon Barry Diller is 'near a deal' to buy search site Ask Jeeves, say reports.

Movable Type SOLD OUT!?!

Movable Type SOLD OUT!?! 05/16/2004 12:42 AM
advocated their original position .. asterisk: MovableType SOLD OUT .. Asterisk

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280 mln cameraphones to be sold in 2005

280 mln cameraphones to be sold in 2005 03/14/2005 06:24 PM
ZDNet Mar 14 2005 9:45PM GMT

One-In-Six Xmas iPods Sold In UK

One-In-Six Xmas iPods Sold In UK 01/16/2004 11:04 AM
It appears that in the region of 125,000 iPods were sold in the UK -- the largest market for the product in Europe. By Jonny Evans (Macworld UK via MyAppleMenu)

eBay sold on Web services

eBay sold on Web services 06/23/2004 02:05 PM
The online auctioneer invites a slew of affiliates to incorporate its propriety marketplace technology into their sites.

Sony Sold 500,000 PSPs i

Sony Sold 500,000 PSPs i 04/09/2005 09:58 PM
Techzonez Apr 10 2005 1:45AM GMT

3G to be on 15% of phones sold in S'pore

3G to be on 15% of phones sold in S'pore 04/11/2005 03:55 AM
Singapore Business Times Apr 11 2005 4:53AM GMT

- 3G to be on 15% of phones sold in
S'pore

- 3G to be on 15% of phones sold in
S'pore 04/12/2005 11:08 PM
IT AsiaOne Apr 13 2005 3:35AM GMT

has reportedly been bought and sold

has reportedly been bought and sold 12/10/2003 05:47 AM
Grover Norquist and the Islamists .. A Troubling Influence

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$4.5 bln of workstations sold in 2004

$4.5 bln of workstations sold in 2004 04/16/2005 07:34 PM
ZDNet Apr 16 2005 10:26PM GMT

Doubleclick sold for $1.1 billion

Doubleclick sold for $1.1 billion 06/05/2005 11:28 PM
"Internet advertising technology specialist DoubleClick has become the latest high-tech company to fall into the arms of private equity investors."

Pricerunner.com Sold to Valueclick

Pricerunner.com Sold to Valueclick 08/08/2004 01:42 PM
"Valueclick has bought Princerunner.com for $29 million in cash and a shares."

Shopzilla is Sold for $525 Million

Shopzilla is Sold for $525 Million 06/17/2005 05:11 PM
"Scripps said it would pay $525 million in cash for 100 percent of Shopzilla, a comparison shopping search engine."

Salmon Gone Wild, or Is It Just Sold
That Way?

Salmon Gone Wild, or Is It Just Sold
That Way? 04/09/2005 12:03 PM
Tests performed for The New York Times on salmon sold as wild by eight New York City stores showed that the fish at six of the eight were farm raised.
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