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Showing posts with label ebay. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ebay. Show all posts

Friday, 16 September 2011

Tech-Planets : Nike Air Mag shoes on eBay now, Back to the Future but not to Britain


The Back To The Future Nike Air Mag shoes are now on eBay and already promising serious money for charity -- but they're only on sale to American bidders. Short of jumping in your DeLorean and blasting through time and space to the other side of the Atlantic, is there any way of getting hold of Marty McFly's trainers?
The sneakers are only available to US Back to the Future fans "because of individual country regulations governing the manufacture, distribution and/or sale of products containing batteries and other electronic components," eBay says. They light up, which apparently is going to be big in 2015. Sadly the shoes don't also lace themselves like in the film.
There are a number of services that furnish you with a US address to order stuff from the States, includingBundleBoxSkyBoxMyUS and Shipito. Results may vary, so try these services at your own risk -- have you used these services to get your Stateside swag? Let us know in the comments section below.
The proceeds of the auction will go to the Michael J Fox Foundation, a charity started by the Back to the Future andTeen Wolf star to fight Parkinson's disease. The Canadian actor was diagnosed with Parkinson's in 1991.


The Nike Air Mag shoes are available in sizes 7-13 -- that's US sizes, so if you're a British bidder and you want to actually wear yours then knock a size off for your plates. Bids are currently around $5,000, but hey, postage and packing is free. 

Thursday, 15 September 2011

EBay’s PayPal Plans to Offer Wider Range of Payment Options


 EBay Inc.’s PayPal service is adding features that give businesses more flexibility over how they sell wares and accept payments.
The changes, due in the coming months, include mobile payments, barcode scanning via handheld device, store inventory lookup and offers based on a person’s location, PayPal said today in a blog posting.
Improvements at PayPal are part of an effort by EBay Chief Executive Officer John Donahoe to accelerate growth and step up competition with Amazon.com Inc. in the e-commerce market. PayPal’s sales grew 31 percent last quarter, outpacing gains at the main commerce business for San Jose, California-based EBay.
“We gave merchants a sneak peek at PayPal’s new payment technologies that will help give their customers a much better shopping and buying experience through PayPal,” Scott Thompson, president of PayPal, wrote on the blog.
The new technologies will help boost PayPal’s volume of transactions in 2012 beyond the $130 billion it’s due to report this year, he said. The company had about $92 billion in payment volume in 2010.
EBay rose 74 cents to $30.14 at 4 p.m. New York time in Nasdaq Stock Market trading. It has gained 8.3 percent this year.

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