Happy Christmas from TameBay
December 25, 2007
TameBay competition news
December 10, 2007
Competitions are the name of the game this month, not only are Bling! It and TameBay offering you the chance to win 1 of 20 copies of Bling! It! but 3mobilebuzz is offering the chance to win one, two or even three Skypephones! Entries are already… Read more
Bid for the eBay homepage
December 10, 2007
Yes that’s right, eBay are offering one person the chance of filming their own Christmas message, which will be broadcast on the eBay homepage and seen by millions of people over the festive session in order to raise money for the NSPCC. If you… Read more
Every retailer needs a little TANK!
December 6, 2007
Meet Tank Stikman, the new face of ChannelAdvisor. Tank’s aim is to help retailers become successful and claims he is the glue that holds ChannelAdvisor together. You can follow the adventures of Tank on the ChannelAdvisor website but if you want… Read more
He feels our pain
December 6, 2007
Hey. I’m J and this is my stupid blog about stupid ebayers and their stupid auctions and their stupid emails to me. Long before TameBay, I used to wonder if there was mileage in a blog about the crazy stuff you hear as an eBayer: bizarre demands… Read more
Bid for a White Christmas on eBay
November 23, 2007
For the second year in a row Sno!zone are auctioning a real white Christmas for one lucky bidder. On Christmas Eve they’ll receive a delivery of ten tonnes of snow to be professionally spread around their house and garden. Of course it wouldn’t be… Read more
Child benefit records appear on eBay
November 21, 2007
One database, 2 CDs, 25 million children’s names and addresses, 10 million adult’s bank account details and national insurance numbers. That’s what the latest spoof auctions on eBay have to offer, following the government fiasco where they mislaid… Read more
Vote for the best of eBay
November 19, 2007
eBay have just launched a new site, Best of eBay, for all the weird, wonderful and downright outrageous auctions that the site has to offer. Anything that’s unusual, interesting or eccentric should be found on this site, and if it’s not it’s down to… Read more
Love from you from eBay
November 16, 2007
Following on from the latest eBay adverts and the Love from you from eBay tag line comes the eBay.co.uk Christmas page. It encourages you to think about the things the special person in your life likes, and then enter them into the eBay search… Read more
eBay Ireland Christmas Pressie Picker
November 16, 2007
Stuck for what to buy your loved one for Christmas? Not any more you’re not – just head over to eBay Ireland where the Christmas Pressie Picker is up and running! Select the sex, age and relationship to the person you need to buy a gift for you… Read more
eBay Christmas elves want to hear from you
November 15, 2007
It’s the busiest time of year for sellers on eBay but eBay want to inject a little fun into the busiest season of the year. They are currently giving away a Santa’s sack load of eBay branded merchandise to sellers. Each day, sellers can enter the… Read more
Move over, Scorsese
November 13, 2007
eBay Belgium take 8000 users out for the day
October 4, 2007
Last Saturday more than 8.000 Belgian eBay users were invited together with their family to come to the Walibi amusement park, close to Brussels. Despite the rainy weather, it was a great day, with lots of fun. The Belgian eBay team had invited its… Read more
Nice try…
August 27, 2007
Something amusing amongst the normal flood of Chinese “authentic designer gear” spam this morning: As ebays only aortorised serplier if your dont buy our products you will suffer suspensions from selling. You have to give them full marks for… Read more
TameBay in your Facebook
August 18, 2007
We’ve talked in the forum about Facebook, the social networking site. Though plenty of people are talking about Facebook as a tool for business, before I joined, I couldn’t see the point: now I’ve joined, I still don’t see the actual point, but I do… Read more
Speed eBay takes bidding out and about
August 9, 2007
click to embiggenYou’ve heard of speed dating, but today Speed eBay hits the streets, ready to bring the thrill of the auction to summer shoppers in person. eBay have designed a special booth which allows three buyers to bid against each other in… Read more
Happy Birthday Meg!
August 4, 2007
eBay Italy put the fun back into auctions
July 26, 2007
It’s eBay Pulse on Windorphins! All the amusing, unusual and downright bizarre items from eBay collected in one place and voted for by the community. That’s the new Incredible on eBay site from ebay Italy. I do like the way that anything offbeat… Read more
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows misprint
July 25, 2007
Copies of the hottest book of the year are appearing on eBay. Not however the mint editions you might expect, but collectable misprinted copies. It’s questionable what the long term value of these will be, as it’s the final book in the series… Read more
Reddit hardware up for sale on eBay
July 21, 2007
So you hang around on eBay, you buy a few items, maybe you sell a few (or a lot). Because you know eBay you’re probably vaguely aware of Stumbleupon, the discovery site bought by eBay. Well they’re not the only social bookmarking site, there are… Read more
Blended iphone pulled from eBay
July 20, 2007
I love Blendtec’s marketing, they make blenders so their marketing ploy is to blend pretty much everything from golf clubs to…… well now an iphone! Did he put his blended iphone on eBay? Well yes he did, but after the auction got to… Read more
Sorry I damaged your £42k purchase
June 22, 2007
What do you say to a buyer when they’ve won your auction on eBay and you then break their purchase? Well that’s the situation Lewis Hamilton the rising F1 star is in – having sold a kart for £42,100 for charity he’s taken it for a spin around a… Read more
Make money when eBay groups get Skyped
June 21, 2007
As part of an overhaul of eBay groups the ability to Skype other group members will be introduced. Many times I’ve seen a thread where someone is assisting another eBay member and it would be so much easier to do on a phone conversation than trying… Read more
Glastonbury festival survival essentials
June 12, 2007
Are you going to Glastonbury this year? If so you need a Shelter Festival Survival Kit and PayPal are coughing up a discount on it for you. Shelter are a charity set up in 1966 to prevent bad housing and homelessness adversely affecting people’s… Read more
The Chesley Flower Show 2007
May 14, 2007
On Tuesday 22nd May, the Royal Horticultural Society Chelsea Flower Show opens to the public. Not to be outdone residents of Chesley Gardens in East Ham, London E6 are taking on the might of the Royal Horticultural Society’s annual bash in SW3 with… Read more
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